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THE GREAT ADVANTAGE OF A SUIT- 

 ABLE STOCK OF CATTLE. 



NEXT to the judgment required, in 

 adapting each foil to the purpofe 

 for which nature intended it, the flock- 

 ing of land with proper cattle is one of 

 the nicefl parts of the fcience of farming. 

 Where nature is left to herfelf, (he always 

 produces animals fuitable to her vegeta- 

 tion, from the fmalleft (lieep on the 

 Welch mountains, to the largeft fort in 

 the Lincolnfhire marfhes ; from the little 

 hardy bullock in the northern highlands, 

 to the noble ox in the richeft paftures of 

 Somerfetfhire. But good hufbandry ad- 

 mits of our increafmg the value of the 

 one, in proportion to that of the other. 

 Land improved enables us to keep a bet- 

 ter fort of ftock i which Ihews the dou- 

 ble 



