SECT. 4. Feeding. 



THE county of Down is not by any means a grazing 



country ; neverthelefs there are every year many beafls 



fatted in it. Although the foil is, generally fpeaking, 



better adapted for tillage, there are fome parts of it not 



only capable of bringing on cattle of a large fize, but 



remarkable for doing fo : on the weftern part of the 



county, where the foil is a deep loam or clay, cattle 



grow to a weight uncommon in the Shallower foils. 



Some low grounds, that lie along the Lagan, and ibme 



on the banks of the Bann particularly, are reckoned 



peculiarly wholefome in the early part of the year, 



both for horfes and cattle. The flock bought in for 



grazing moftly confifts of cows and heifers, laid in at 



the different fairs in the months of May and June ; 



the cows ftrippers kept in the country, or brought by 



drovers from the breeding counties, when the prices 



are high, and a brifk demand for them ; they often 



alfo bring heifers with them, of a fuperior kind, both 



for fattening and for milking. Bullocks are not fo much 



required, their weight being too much for the general 



foil of the county. Cows are efteemed more profitable, 



as they are better adapted in point of fize, and yield, it 



is thought, more tallow. Though there is no regular 



fyftem of keeping fat cattle, through the winter, upon 



green 



