OF LIVE STOCK. 10* 



ON the whole, it may be safely asserted, that there is no 

 country in Europe, where farming is at all understood, 

 where the implements of husbandry are so few, so simply 

 so cheap,* or so effective, as those in Scotland a circum- 

 stance of infinite moment to the industrious husbandman. 



SECT. VIII. Of Live Stock. 



IT is a common remark, that the farmers of Scotland, in 

 general, seldom think of bringing their sheep, their cattle, 

 or their hogs, to that extraordinary degree of fatness, 

 which is the pride of the English breeders and graziers ; 

 for which, indeed, the Scottish graziers have but little in- 

 ducement, (except on the borders, where they are within 

 reach of the Morpeth market), as, owing to the difference of 

 taste between the two countries, the English mode of feeding 

 stock would not pay in Scotland.f Without discussing the 



* The threshing-mill, though it costs a considerable sum, yet is the 

 cheapest of any, considering the work it performs. 



f It is questionable whether this great fatness is useful to the public. 

 Some families have given up butchers who pride themselves on selling 

 very fat meat, finding that it made no way in feeding their family, so 

 much of it being rejected. The great object is, to ascertain the net 

 profitabl* weight, produced by the different breeds, at the smallest ex- 

 pence. 



