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STATISTICS OF AGRICULTURE. 



IV. 



I -lr. light and broad, lull not loo long; llw loin 

 i ltl :,. Hucki mm ■ ■ . but noi prominent, 

 , hort i|i ce b t»ecn them and the nk. The 

 i.. Um hip, nearlj straight ; the 

 thighs thick, anri meeting each other so dose under the fun- 

 dament, a ill Btmall groove for the tail to rest on. 



. miii. heavy i" lift, and well haired, 

 sheath (vagina] i- considered to be one of the m irta of a good 

 , ■ . , . i . . " i.'un. Tli -y hare been 

 in .<>> Improved of late, and arc still improving, especially in 

 ,.i weight. 

 //<v,-j. "A kml of Jewish abhorrenoe of swim- teem* to 

 have taken place, about tie- rigid times of the Refor rnar l iw ii 

 in the western counties of Scotland. They were unclean 

 beasts; it was sinful meat their flesh, and neither creditable 

 nor profitable to keep them; and though these prejudices are 

 now pretty much worn out, pork is not yet, in g ner.il, a fa- 

 vourite food, ami, of course, the number of hogs kept and fed 

 are not considerable. 11 



5. Political Economy. 



The ro ids are in man\ places bad, bin h ;nv lab Xf been im- 

 proved; though the material* begood and abundant, the wet 



ate i- much ag dnst them, Im-re are several canals, the 



r mi CI de, ii iv gable to Glasgow, and nine railways. The 

 manufactures and commerce of Glasgow are oi great extent 

 and well known. There is a corresponding afcTicultural 

 society there, and some minor socie-ti, ->. 



1127 



ton Mil. i. it- neous 



an moatqulckly away. Moatof ih mstand 

 ibi iv. . and on sui h the traai ' 

 erst on i 



st. in, f orchards, on friao , nnoomna only 



,,. pium tit uitad round the verge 



..• ii hud. and .in- profital e, not only for iln- fruit they 



The depi 



nitted on the orchards are become more frequent and 



il ,i!HL', as the in inuf t tine- -.1" the Mam' "I. and 



uragernent to trusapaelea ■•• cultivation, par- 

 ticularly th t of small orchards, which cannot defray the ax- 

 m the night." 



fries mil 

 , ,1, ,r.- said to 



w, . I he and i urranl ir - 



around annually, kept on a single stem, and dung 



at cond vcar. , , .. 



fnimiimiili or native Umbel trees, are not abundant: tne 

 . are on the Clyde, in and near Hamilton I 



I tatlon ire forming in every 

 p. nt of the ■ ,'iintv. 

 4. Live Stock. 



a mixed breed; the Ayrshire beginning t.i become ge- 

 Oxen formerly employed in labour, and still used by a 



ii pit, of the better sense nt th, 



.-.nd bailiffs. Pew sheep kept, excepting on the mountains, 

 where the black-faced tori prevails. 



ingAfAorMJ oft ydesdale have long been in high esti- 

 mation. Dealt r- from different parti of Engl mil come t" th 

 iv, and Kutherglen markets to purchase them, and prefer 

 i em to tie Derbysnlre blacks. Those of the upper 

 ward, where the greatest number are bred, are es- 

 t lined the iK-st. The native breed began to be 

 unproved by crosses from Kngland and Flanders 

 about 1760. 



The Lunirkshire breed of horses van,' in hi i_ht from 

 IS to is hinds; but from 14 to 16 hands is consi- 

 dered the proper size. " His general aspect (.fig. lli!7.) 

 is sia ely, h ind we, and dlgn tied. He is round, 

 il shv, well propott oned, strong, and heavv, with- 

 out being coarse or clumsy. His countenance is sweet 

 and tgreeable, yet lively and spirited ; and his motions 

 steady and firm, hut nimble and alert. His I e.ul 

 i- in due proportion to his body, rather small than 

 large, noway clumsy, and not so full and prominent 

 below the eyes as some of the English breeds. His 

 nostrils are Wide, his eyes full and animated, and his 

 erect His tuck is neither long nor slender, but 

 Strong, thick, am! fleshy, with a good curvature, and 

 the inane strong and bushy. He is broad in the 

 breast, thick in the shoulders, the blades mar's as 

 tugh as the chine, ami not so much stretched back- 

 's aras as those of road horses. The arm tapers to the 

 knee. The leg rather short; bone oval and strong, but 

 solid and clean. The hoof round, of a black colour, 

 tough and firm, with the heels wide, and no long 

 hair on the legs, except a tuft at the heel. The 

 body round an i heavy ; the belly of a proportional 

 Size, neither small iior large, and the Hank full. 



7sn. DUNBARTONSHIRE. H7,,00 acres of exceedingly irregular surface, in two parts, distant 

 from each other six miles; possessing little agricultural interest The arable lands are nt' very limited 

 extent, and lie chiefly on the banks of the Chile and Leven : the greatest part of the county consisting of 

 lofty mountains incapable of cultivation. Coal, lime, freestone, and ironstone abound, and are exten- 

 sively worked. There is also ochre, schistus abounding in alum pyrites, which are made into copperas, 

 and a large quarry of blue slate. Lochlomond is well known for its scenery. (IVItytc and Mac/a > ■■lane's 

 Iicport, 1811.) 



1. Property. 



Two large estates ; one exceeds 3000/. a year. One third of 

 the county under entail, which greatly retards its improve- 

 ment. 



2. Buildings. 



More than a common share of elegant villas and gentlemen's 

 bouses. The most magnificent is Roseneath, the Duke of 

 Argyle, built by Bonoml, in 1803 rtsea. It is 1st feet long, and 

 : readthi with two magnificent fronts, both ornamented 

 w Ith columns of the Ionic order. On his Grace's farm, which 

 tted in a vers u ui riot -tsle, tiiere is also a large set of 

 farm offices, surmounted with a high tower. Common farm- 

 mi cottages formerly very wretched, beginning to im- 

 prove, but the progress slow. Dunbarton bridge 30U feet in 

 ind twenty -live feet high in the centre. 

 ; Occupation. 

 A verage extent of arable farms fifty acres ; sheep, or moun 

 tain nu i 600 acres. Farmers men of limited edu- 



- tli" 1 1 i ipit.il, and implicitly following the | 

 of their forefathers. Thereexi i- amongthe labouring class i-i 

 this district in Inveterate attachment to the possession 

 When a young man is disposed to marry, he looks out for a 

 sin ill f.iru , t kes it it in extravag nit rent, stocks it on credit. 



and draws from it a scanty subsistence, while at the end of Ins 



uneq ual to pay the debt which has 



. .,i-d ilnniiu it- i hit- ncy. In ii, t the feudal state of 



In this county. Therewere 



I ,1, is. on many i tales, and arest farms let tu thr, e 



or four tenants, as conjunct I •< , to be cultivated by their 



■ Lands alwa 



, , seldom for a snorter period than nineteen years. 



■1. Implements. 



t urvi d harrows of a semicircul ^r form are used by the best 

 farmers for tin sing their potato ridg.-.. The diameter is equal 

 to the distance between the. trills or ridges, generally near three 

 feel ; and they are used, before the young shoot ot the put ito 

 springs, to dress the surface of the ridge, and destroy any w.eds 

 whli h may have begun to appear. The highland hand-harrow 

 is still in use in soine corners of the highland district. It is 

 about two feet long and fifteen inches broad, consisting of three 

 bulls, and as mans cross bars, w ith twenty-seven teeth and two 

 handles bent, like a hoop, with which it is wrought. It is un- 

 ploved on bits of land which have been dug with the highland 

 spade, either on account of their being too steep to be tilled by 

 the labour of a horse, or from their consisting ot a number of 

 small corners among rocks and large stones, to which a common 

 harrow could not find ace ss. Wilkie's wheel plough, with a 

 shifting muzzle ( fig- 1128-1, i> used to clear water-furrows on 

 wet lands, and also for the common purposes of ploughing 

 strong clays when wet ; the muzzle being set so as both horses 

 may walk in the furrow. 



5. Enclosing. 



Gentlemen who pav particular attention to their hedges 

 ver allow them to be cut with sh-ars. In place of that 



implement a hedge-knife 



-d, with a short and slightly 



curved blade, thick in the middle, and tapermg to a thin 

 and very sharp edg,- on each side. By cutting always upwards, 

 the twigs are cut clean over wit', out being bruised or , ankereo, 

 and the hi dee i< kept. , f l. hat is universally allowed to he the 

 best shap- , broad nil bushy at the bottom, and contracting to 

 a sharp riiige at top. 



