36o CATTLE. 36. 



For an evidence that profit depends chiefly 

 on management, fee Min. iio. 



For another inftance of moderate profit by 

 Scots, fee Min. hi. 



For an inftance of great profit by home- 

 breds, fee Min. i 19. 



It may be proper to obferve, that the in- 

 fbances of prcfit, which are here adduced, are, 

 taken collectively, much above par. If, in a 

 common year, a bullock, of forty (lone, pay 

 half a crown a week for fatting, he is thought 

 to have done tolerably well. Suppofing him 

 to take fix months '* time j" and, in that time, 

 to eat an acre of turneps ; the grofs produce, 

 on this calculation, will be three pounds five 

 ihiliings ; from which dedudl fifteen fhlUings 

 for ftraw and attendance, the remainder is 

 fifty iliillings for the neat produce of the tur- 

 neps ; — exclufive of the value of the teathc, 

 or the dung, ar.fing from the confumption. 



But it being evident (at leaft to my mind) 

 that very much depends upon management, I 

 am clearly of opinion, that, by a judicious 

 attention to breeding, or a proper choice in 

 purchafing;-*by laying-out farms convenient- 



