MCt. I. THE COUNTY OF FIFE. 259 



There was lately in the possession of the 

 Earl of Leven, a bull of the true Fife breed, 

 which was bred by Mr Robert Russel, in New- 

 ton of Markinch, one of his Lordship's tenants, 

 an engraving of which is prefixed. He was 

 esteemed a very complete animal, possessing all 

 the properties for which the Fife breed is so 

 much admired by the English drovers. An exact 

 measurement of him was taken, at the desire of 

 the FIFE FARMING SOCIETY, by two of its 

 members, and is as follows : 



Feet. Incise: . 



Length of the head - 20 



Ditto from the root of the horn to the rump 8 4 

 Ditto from the root of the horn to the top of the 



shoulder - 2 6 



Ditto of the horn - I o 



Distance from point to point of ditto - - i 10 



Girth of the body at the shoulder - - ' 7 6^ 



Ditto before the hough bones - - 7 8^. 



Ditto fore-leg smallest part, between the knee and 



hoof - - o 9 



Ditto hinder-leg at ditto - - - o 9 1 



Ditto fore-leg at fore spald - - 20 



Height at the shoulder - -411 



Ditto at the hough bone - 4 n 



Ditto from the shoulder to the breast bone 3 6 



Ditto of the knee joint fore-leg - I o 



Breadth of the hough bones - 22 



Ditto of the are-bones - I 4j 



In short, if what has been said, respecting the 

 Fife breed of black cattle, be just, it follows, that 

 all foreign and mixed kinds should be extirpat- 

 ed as fast as possible, and that our farmers ought 

 to confine themselves entirely to the native 

 stock. "And I have no scruple to say, that if 

 our own breed were kept pure and unmixed ; 

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