OF LIVE STOCK. Ill 



If seven sheep are taken, the balance would be L. 1 : 9 : 6. 

 If six sheep, the difference is 7s. in their favour; but at 

 five sheep, the balance is 15s. 6d. in favour of the ox. 



It is necessary, however, to take into consideration, the 

 hide, on the one hand, and the skins and fleeces, on the 

 other; also the value of the manure they respectively pro- 

 duce. The latter is evidently in favour of the sheep ; for 

 it can hardly be doubted, that two years' pasturage with 

 sheep, will improve the land as much as three with cattle. 



The experiments of Mr Hunter of Tynefield, however, 

 are decidedly in favour of cattle, when stall-fed. From 30 

 to 32 tons of turnip, (the average produce of an English 

 acre), will fatten ten sheep, from 12 to 14 Ib. per quarter. 

 The same quantity of turnips, he finds, will fatten at least 

 two cattle of 30 stones Amsterdam each, 16 Ibs. to the 

 stone, and 17| ounces to the pound. He therefore main- 

 tains, that more beef than mutton, to the amount of 440 

 Ibs. Amsterdam, will, on an average, be produced, from 

 equal weights of turnips, provided that the turnips be con- 

 sumed at the stall, by the cattle. In this case, however, an 

 expence is incurred by conveying the turnips to the stall. 

 The dung, at the same time, is more disposable, and a 

 quantity of straw, that might otherwise be of little value, is 

 converted into rich manure. 



This, however, is not the only point of view in which 

 the subject is to be considered. A Berwickshire farmer 

 informs me, that he usually purchases in October, at the 

 Falkirk tryst or market, about eighty Highland bullocks; 

 he winters them on straw and meadow hay, and feeds them 

 off for the butcher the following season, in grass inclosures 

 taken for that purpose. They are bought, on an average, 

 at about L. 9 per head, and will fetch, when fattened, from 

 L.I 4- to L.I 5 each. Is any plan more likely to be profit- 

 able, more especially if the grass fields are not taken too 



