OF LIVE STOCK. 



this practice, as incompatible with regular farming; for 

 though breeding of horses to supply the farm, is in many 

 cases a proper plan to adopt, since the prices of horses have 

 become so high, yet frequent change of horses, or, in other 

 words, horse-dealing, is not to be recommended. 



It has been very justly observed, that farms, dedicated 

 to the sole purpose of breeding horses, would certainly pay 

 well at present, if the necessary attention were paid to the 

 breed and management. Such farms are very much want- 

 ed, as an important link in Scottish husbandry ; for the 

 breeding of horses in the west of Scotland, will be always 

 diminishing, as the farmers become better acquainted with 

 improved. arable management. There might probably be 

 suitable situations found in the northern districts, for that 

 purpose, especially if more winter food could be obtained, 

 by the cultivation of florin, or of Swedish turnip. 



6. Miscellaneous Articles. Some farmers adopt a mode, 

 by which five horses will do nearly as much labour as six, 

 according to the usual mode of employing them. One horse 

 is employed in carting turnips during winter, or in other 

 necessary farm-work at other seasons, without the necessity 

 of reducing the number of ploughs. In carting dung from 

 the straw-yard, three carts are used, one always filling in 

 the yard, to meet the return of another empty ; when the 

 leading horse of the empty cart is unyoked, and put to the 

 full one, by which means five horses may be said to do tho 

 work of six. In the same manner, while one pair of horses 

 is drilling for turnips, the other three are employed in put- 

 ting the dung upon the land, either with two or three carts, 

 as the situation of the ground shall require.* By extending 



* It is necessary that the drills should be formed up immediately after 

 the dung is spread, that the sap may be retained. 



