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I shall only observe further, that when oxen 

 are used for labour, especially in the cart, they 

 ought to be shod and harnessed in the same 

 manner as horses. This will enable them to 

 travel more expeditiously and more pleasantly, 

 and to endure more fatigue with less injury to 

 themselves.' 



SECT. IV. HOGS. 



NoT/many years ago the flesh of this animal 

 was generally disliked by the lower classes of 

 the people, and therefore very few hogs were 

 reared. But that aversion has been gradually 

 overcome, and they are now to be met with in 

 considerable numbers through the whole coun- 

 ty. The greatest quantities are bred and fatten- 

 ed by distillers. The mills, too, being nume- 

 rous, and affording a cheap and plentiful supply 

 of food for them, a great many are bred by the 

 mill-masters and their millers. Few gentlemen 

 want them. They are to be seen aji'Otit almost 

 every farm-house. Even cottagers either breed 

 them, or purchase them when young from those 

 who do, and feed them for their own Use, and 

 sometimes for sale. Of late the demand has 

 been so great, that pigs of 5 or 6 weeks old sell 

 from 8s. to 123. a-head, according as they are 

 of a smaller or a larger kind. 



But though this species of live- stock be very 

 plentiful in Fife, few or none prosecute the rear- 

 ing of it as a principal or leading object. Hence 

 it is that we do not find the same attention paid 

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