112 OF LIVE STOCK. 



high ? Or can any other sort of breeding or feeding stand 

 a comparison with such a system ? 



Some graziers are of opinion, that a mixed stock of cat- 

 tle and sheep always pay better, than when they are pas- 

 tured separately. They improve the ground more, and 

 are fattened with more economy.* Mr George Culley 

 states that to be the result of his experience as a grazier, 

 for no less a period than sixty years. Mr Robertson of 

 Ladykirk, who concurs in the same opinion, calculates, 

 that an acre of ordinary grazing land in Berwickshire will 

 feed well three shearling Leicester sheep, and that an acre 

 and a half of such land, will feed a bullock of 60 stone 

 weight. Two acres and a half, therefore, will, (when the 

 stock is mixed, which it ought to be), produce the follow- 

 ing sums : 



3 sheep at 15s. each, - - L.2 5 

 1 bullock of 60 stone, - - 3 10 



L.5 15 



Consequently the produce of two and a half acres of 

 English measure, of middling pasture, is only at the rate 

 of L.2, 6s. per English acre. In rich land the profit must 

 be still greater. 



It has been justly observed, that there is not much stock 

 that will pay the expence of grazing from the acquired 



* It is objected to mixed pasturage, that cattle require a full bite, and 

 sheep a close one. But the one should go after the other; first the 

 cattle, and then the sheep. Besides the practice is, to allot the greater 

 part of the pasture to either sort of stock, as may be thought most suit- 

 able. The grass produced by the droppings of th one kind is relished 

 by the other. 



