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nanshire, and so are ninety thousand barrels of ale, 

 which go direct to Liverpool, London, Glasgow, and 

 Newcastle. About 150,000 quarters of barley and 

 other grain, principally from the Mediterranean and 

 Black Sea, are used for whisky alone, and 22,000 of 

 barley for ale. Australian, German, and Scottish 

 wools are all used in the manufactories, and are 

 chiefly worked into tartans, stocking-yarn, and 

 tweeds. 



Very few pure sheep are bred in the low parts of 

 the county ; but the Leicester tup is crossed with 

 Cheviots or black-faced, as the pasture suits ; and 

 the lambs are sold to Fifeshire or the Lothians, either 

 off the farms or at the Glendevon market at the 

 east end of the Ochils. Many of the farmers buy 

 half-bred lambs at St. Boswells, and sell them, gene- 

 rally out of the wool, between April and July ; and 

 those who get cast Cheviot ewes, keep a small flock 

 of Leicesters, and breed enough tups for their own. 

 use and to exchange with their neighbours. The 

 land, which grows better wheat than barley, re- 

 quires much labour to prepare for the turnip crop, 

 and is very trying to the Clydesdales. All along the 

 Carse of Clackmannan it is a great bean country, and 

 the lasses in their white crazies, one drawing and the 

 other handling the drill, make a brave show as they 

 follow the plough in March. Scarcely a hunter or 

 roadster is bred in the county, although the farmers 

 have had the choice both of Physician or Liverpool 

 blood, Avith jEsculapius and Moss Trooper. There 



