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thin, and a difpefition to fatten well, and on the beft parrs. Where thefe marks 

 arc predominant the Mock is moftly fuitable for the purpofes of the grazier. 



It has likewife been remarked, that where the hair of the hide, in fattening 

 Cattle, is inclined to curl inftead of being ftraight, they arc m oft difpofed to thrive, 

 This has been found to be the cafe in practice in different parts of the kingdom.* 

 In lean beads alfo, when the hair of the hides is curled, they commonly keep them- 

 felves in better condition than where the contrary is the cafe. In all cafes a dif- 

 pofition in the animals, of whatever fort they may be, to wildnefs, and not remain 

 ing quietly in the paftures, forms an infurmountable objection in this fyftem of 

 management; as no animal ever fattens well that has a tendency to ramble: it is 

 quietnefs, feeding quickly, and lying much, that has the greateft tendency to make 

 them become fat in a fhort time. From the refult of actual experiment with four 

 different beafts, in which the lead poflible difference could not be difcovered on 

 the moft minute examination, it has been mown that too much attention cannot 

 be beftowed in the choice of the breeds of fattening flock, as, though they were in 

 every refpect the fame in appearance, two, from their fuperiordifpofuion to fatten, 

 were found to afford a profit in the proportion of fifteen {hillings the week, while 

 the other two did not yield more than about five millings and ten-pence.-)- 



In different fituations different forts of both cattle and fhecp muft often be pre 

 ferred from the eafc and convenience of procuring them ; but the graziers in the 

 midland diftricts for the moft part find that variety of the long-horned, termed the 

 Craven breed, to anfwer the beft, as having the moft advantageous form, and the 

 greateft difpofition to fatten readily, efpecially as improved by Mr. Bakewell. la 

 Lincolnmire fame prefer the large fhort-horned breed, others long-horned, with a 

 mixture of other kinds ; as the different forts of Scotch, and fuch as are bred in 

 the neighbourhood. In Somerfetmire the dark-red Devonfhire breed is the moft 

 prevailing fort, which have alfo of late been more in demand by the beft graziers in 

 Leicefterfhire, Oxfordfhire, and Warwickfhire. In the London markets thcfe arc 

 faid to come next to the Galloway Scots that are fattened by the Norfolk and 

 Suffolk graziers, in the finenefs of the grain of their flefli and their internal fatnefs.J 

 The Cumberland and other North-Country graziers moftly employ the home 

 breeds, which are in general of the long-horned kind, with both the Scotch breeds,, 



* Annals of Agriculture, and Weight s Hufbandry in Scotland. 

 { Annals of Agriculture, vol. XIV. J Billingfley in Somerfetfhire Report. 



