OF LIVE STOCK. 



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at the Shotts ironworks, about the beginning of the year 

 1806. Several farmers in that neighbourhood soon tried 

 them ; and the demand for them is now so great, that the 

 company can with difficulty make a sufficient quantity to 

 supply the sales during the season. 



Table of Milk Dishes, as made at the Shotts Ironworks, near 

 Whitbum, West Lothian. 



Mr Baird has also made a cheese shape, measuring 17| 

 inches diameter in the inside ; the price nine shillings. The 

 same article, (cast-iron), will probably be also extended to 

 churns. 



On working Oxen. The propriety of working oxen has 

 long been a subject of dispute. There can hardly be a 

 doubt of the advantage of employing them in threshing- 

 mills, a point which has been already sufficiently explained, 

 (See Sect. 7.); but how far they are calculated for ploughs, 

 and still more for carts, has not yet been decisively ascer- 

 tained. The observations which have been transmitted to 

 me by two most respectable practical farmers in Roxburgh- 

 shire, (Mr Walker of Wooden, and Mr Walker of Mel- 

 lendean), are so strongly in favour of the use of oxen, to a 

 certain extent, in proportion to the working stock required 



