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ficient dispatch, and at the same time, save what- 

 ever difference of expence there may be between 

 the plan of keeping a full complement of horses, 

 and the partial substitution of cattle, in the way 

 above proposed. 



But whatever become of the general question, 

 when the subject come? to be considered with a 

 reference to particular cases, the propriety or 

 impropriety of the measure, will be more easi-r 

 ly ascertained. When the fanner has no o- 

 ther purpose, in breeding, or buying in cat- 

 tle, but for their labour : When the spe-r 

 cies, he employs, have a natural sluggishness 

 and inactivity, which cannot be overcome ; or 

 when his farm has little pasture-ground, or i$ 

 otherwise so circumstanced as to oblige him to 

 feed his cattle at a very expensive rate, he may, 

 with some shew of reason, question the eligibi- 

 lity of 'the plan. But on farms where there is 

 plenty of pasture, and where breeding and rear- 

 ing cattle for the market forms a part of the far- 

 mer's system, the propriety of the measure can- 

 not be so easily disputed. Of his young stock 

 he can select such as he judges most proper for 

 the puipose, train them betimes to the yoke, 

 work them for several years with very little ex- 

 traordinary expence, and then dispose of them 

 at the same price as if they had never been in 

 the yoke. In this county the practice seems 

 peculiarly proper, not only as it is a breeding 

 county, but because the Fife cattle are hardy, 

 active, and tractable, and if due care be taken in 

 training them, they may be made to go almost, 

 perhaps altogether, as quickly, and perform as 

 much work as horseB. 



