Live-Stock Lowland or Fife/hire Breed Alderney JBrwd. 65$ 



cattle arc the fmalleft in fize, but the moft perfect in other refpedts of perhaps 

 any of the Kvlce or other forts ; acircumftance which is fuppofed to depend on 

 its being a pure unmixed breed. The removal of the imperfection of fize cfe- 

 ferves the attention of the breeder.* 



This breed is probably calculated in every refpec&quot;l to thrive in a cold, expofed, 

 mountainous country, and probably better adapted to the cold regions where they 

 are bred than any other kind. They are driven to the fouthward in great numbers 

 every autumn ; many into the weftern diftricts of Yorkfhire, but the greateft part 

 into Norfolk, Suffolk, Eflex, and other parts of the fouth, where they are 

 fattened. This fort of cattle is frequently termed kyloes in thefe parts of the 

 country ; probably from a diftric&quot;l in Ayrfhire called Kyle, where they prevail 

 much. 



The Lowland or Fife/hire breed of cattle is rarely met with in an unmixed ftate. 

 &quot; Towards Cumberland the cattle are half long-horns, half polls j on the bor 

 ders of Northumberland they are mixed with mort-horns until you reach Tiviot- 

 dale, where-they become altogether a fmall coarfc kind of mort-horns, or what 

 the York (hire jobbers call runts \ except a few pretty good fhort-horned cattle, 

 bred in that pleafant and fine country, the Tweedfide.f&quot; This fame kind of 

 runtilh coarfe breed continues all the way to the Frith of Forth. C rolling this 

 narrow fea into Fifelhire, it might at firft be imagined that the Fife cattle were a 

 diftind breed, from their upright white-horns, their being exceedingly light lyred, 

 and thin thighed : but Mr. Culley is pretty clear that it is only from their being 

 more nearly allied to the kyloe breed, and confequently having lefs of the coarfe 

 kind of mort-horns in them. The cattle all along this coaft continue to change 

 more and more, growing ftill lefs, until, upon the hedges of the mountains, they 

 become quite of the kyloe kind ; but ftill much inferior to that pure, unmixed, 

 valuable breed of kyloes which occupy the more northern and weftern Highlands, 

 and the different ifles ; but particularly thelfle of Skye, and that trad of coun 

 try called Kintale.J 



TheAlderney breed of cattle is very delicate and tender, fo as to be little atten 

 ded to by farmers. They are not able to bear well the cold of this ifland, par 

 ticularly the more northern parts of it. They are in general fine boned, light 



* Modern Agriculture, vol. III. + Culley on Live Stock, $ Ibid. 



