J94 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



CHAPTER XIIL 



LIVE STOCK. 



SECTION i. 



Horned Cattle. 



IN a country, where cattle are kept as merely fub- 

 fervient to the purpofes of the dairy, it cannot be ex- 

 pefted, that any general attention fliould be paid to the 

 breed ; and acordingly we find them more valued for 

 their qualifications as good milkers, than as deriving 

 their pedigree from any particular flock, and the ufual 

 tokens of excelling in that way are better recommen- 

 dations to the purchafer, than either length or fhortnefs 

 of horn. The truth is, the cattle of this county are a 

 mixture of every kind ; the bull, that is neareft the 

 place where his interference is necefTary, being, in 

 ninety-nine inflances out of an hundred, that which is 

 preferred j and even thofe farmers, whofe flock requires 

 one of their own, and who in buying cows are atten- 

 tive in choofing the bed, in the purchafe of a bull often 



prefer 



