sat. II. THE COUNTY OF FIFE. 2.6 1 



When 3^ years old, and fat for the butcher 7 o to 8 d 

 Four years old, and full grown 8 o to 10 o 



Milk cows at the calving, from a to 8 years 



old 9 o to 12 o 



Oxen 3 or 4 years old, and lean 8 10 toioio 



Ditto 5 or 6 years old, and fat - 1212 toiSiS 



Oxen, after having been some years in the 

 yoke, have been sold, when 7 or 8 years 

 old, to the English dealers, at the end of 

 the season, when half fed, to be fattened 

 the ensuing winter on turnip for* slaugh- 

 ter, as high per head as - 20 o to o o 



SECT. II. SHEEP. 



ANCIENTLY, sheepformed a considerable part 

 of the live-stock of this county. Every farmer 

 almost kept a quantity, which fed with his cows 

 in summer, and in winter ranged in common 

 over the whole country. But when the system 

 of husbandry came to be. changed ; when the 

 culture of wheat became more general ; clover 

 and rye-grass more commonly sown, and the 

 lands, at the same time, continuing open and 

 exposed, or the thorn-fences young, and there- 

 fore ready to be checked in their growth, or 

 entirely destroyed, by the sheep, (for the wool 

 of sheep is fatal to thorns,) their numbers greatly 

 decreased, and now few, comparatively speaking, 

 remain. There are no flocks, perhaps, consist- 

 ing of above 300 or 400 in the possession of 

 one man ; and few nearly so numerous. These' 

 are chiefly to be met with on the Lomond- 

 hills, the high-grounds on the north, on Eden's- 

 muir ; and on the Downs, in the parish of Leu- 

 chars, commonly called the 'Tents-Moors. Be- 

 sides, many of the gentlemen, and some of the 



