6&&amp;gt; tivc Stock Different Breeds fait different Situations 



hide and long clofe-fet hair of one kind may bea fecurity againft thofe impetuous 

 winds and heavy rains to which the weft coaft of the ifland is fubjccT: ; while 

 the more regular feafons and mild climate upon the eaft coafl may be more fait- 

 able to the conftitution of the other. 



In regard to the former breed exceeding the latter in the quality of the beef, it 

 is only to the particular variety felected and improved by Mr.Bakcwell that prefer 

 ence is to be given in this view ; for, as to the long-horned breed in common, it is 

 fuppofed that their beef is rather inferior than fuperior to that of the generality of 

 the fhort-horned kind ; and there is little doubt, it is imagined, &quot; but a breed of 

 fhort- horned cattle might be felecled, equal if not fuperior to even that very 

 kindly-flemed fort of Mr. Bakewell, provided any able breeder, or body of 

 breeders, would pay as much attention to thefe as he and his neighbours have done 

 to the long-horns. But it has hitherto been the misfortune of the fhort-horned 

 breeders to purfue the largeft and bigg&amp;lt;.-ft boned ones for the beft, without conii- 

 dering that thofe are the beft that pay the moft money for a given quantity of 

 food.&quot;* Such improvements have lately been made in the breeding of fhort-horn- 

 cd cattle, that they have now been brought to a confiderable degree of perfection. 



But, aotwithftanding thefe two breeds have hitherto been in pofTeflion of the befl 

 part of the ifland ; it is fuggefted that the Galloway cattle, and even the Scotch or 

 Kyloes, might be bred with advantage in many fituatipns, fo as to be more profit 

 able than either the mort-horns or the long-horns, as being &quot; true quick feeders 

 and kindly flemed.&quot;t 



. it is likewife conceived that the latter of thefe forts is better adapted to cold 

 moory expofed fituations than any other breed, and that particular breeds are pro 

 bably beft adapted to particular fituations ; on which grounds it is recommended 

 to breeders of cattle to find out which breed is the moft profitable and beft fuited 

 ro their fituations, and to endeavour to improve that breed to the utmoft, rather 

 than try to unite the particular qualities of two or morediftinct breeds by eroding; 

 tyhich is a precarious practice, as it is generally found that &quot; the produce inherit 

 the coarfenefs of both breeds, and rarely attain the good properties which the pure 

 ch ftincl: breeds individually poflefs.J&quot; 



In the providing of cow-ftock, great attention is necefTary in having them bred 



* Culley on Live Stock, f Ibid. j Ibid. 



