254- MINUTES MAT 



rid. Much, however, may depend on the choice 



BULLOCKS ^ a Bullock f r feeing- The Norfolk farmers 

 know, or pretend to know, whether a bullock 

 will grow during the time of his fatting ; and 

 it is the bullock which grows and fats at the 

 fame time, which leaves mod profit to the 

 grazier. If one may judge from Mr. B -'s 

 fuccefs in grazing, he is deeply verfed in this 

 myftery ; indeed, the heifers before-mentioned 

 are a ftriking proof of his judgment in this par- 

 ticular. For they have grown very confider- 

 able, as well as fatted kindly ; whillt the prin- 

 cipal part of Mr. --- 's, out of which thofe 

 were drafted, feem, as to carcafs^ the fame 

 as they were laft October. 



A thick ihin is a favourite point in a High- 

 land Scot ; and there may be other points 

 fymptomatic of a growing bullock ; but I am 

 apprehenfive that a good grazier forms his 

 iudgment from general appearances, and from 

 inruitive impreffions, rather than from parti- 

 cular marks and figns : and I am of opinion, 

 nothing but continued practice and clofe at- 

 tention can make a man a judicious grazier.- 



in. 



MAY 25. Yefterday Mr. -- mewed 

 me another account for eleven more of his 



heifers, 



