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cast ewes. Young and Butterfield of Penritli bring 

 arge lots of cattle to the Falkirks, Dalkeith, Linton, 

 Hallow Fair, and Big Wednesday markets. They 

 are also extensive buyers at the Falkirks of sheep, 

 which they either turnip on their own account, 

 or sell to the Cumberland farmers when the price 

 rises. They deal very largely in fat stock, attend- 

 ing the Manchester market -weekly, and have very 

 considerable transactions as store cattle dealers. 

 Bowstead and Nelson, on the contrary, are entirely 

 sheep men, and take turnips. The}^ are to be found 

 principally at Inverness, and the second and third 

 Ealkirks. Nelson, perhaps, does more at Inverness, 

 and Bowstead at Falkirk ; and the former has gene- 

 rally a show at the BulFs Head, Plumpton, near Pen- 

 rith, where the Cumberland and Westmorland farmers 

 draw up and meet the lots. Maxwell of Carlisle attends 

 the Falkirks and Inverness, and turnips about 2,500 

 wedders, chiefly Cheviots, round Carlisle and up the 

 Yale of the Eden; and Richard Pattinson, another of 

 the Cumberland '^ grey-coats,-"' goes to Falkirk with 

 a large commission from his brother farmers for Che- 

 viot wedders, and divides them at home. 



John Martindale, of Manchester, unites the grazier 

 and butcher business, buying up the best cast Cheviot 

 and blackfaced ewes at the September and October 

 Falkirks, and taking a lamb off them at his farms near 

 Manchester. John Gibbons has been well known 

 for these thirty years at Inverness, where he takes 

 many of the best lots, principally wedders, for his 



