CONTENTS. 



ANTERIOR SOCIETIES. 



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I. Society of Improvers : — Foundation, Membership, and Objects — Directions 

 for fattening cattle — The Society's encouragement of manufactures and 

 fisheries, the germs of the Board of Manufactures and of Fisheries — Maxwell 

 ofArkland — Symposium of the Improvers at Hope Park . . . .19 



3. The Edinburgh Society : — Its development from the Select Society — Illus- 

 trious Membership— Chancellor Wedderburn — Early Premiums offered by 

 the Society — Henrietta, Duchess of Gordon — Professor Gerrard, of Aber- 

 deen — Prizes for Horses, &c. — Financial Difficulties — Expiring Effort . 28 



HIGHLAND SOCIETY. 



CHAPTER I. 



ORIGIN AND EARLY OPERATIONS. 



Initiatory Meetings — First Office-bearers — Original Constituent Members — 

 Definitions of Objects of the Society — Relations to Highland Language, 

 Poetry, and Music — The Society's Bards, Translations of Gaelic, and 

 Pipers — Aid in founding Towns and Villages — Encouragement to Trade 

 and Manufactures — Incorporation by Royal Charter — Grant from the For- 

 feited Estates 45 



CHAPTER II. 



AGRICULTURE IN SCOTLAND, 179I-1796. 

 Sources of information — 'Black Cattle of the Shorthorn Breed ' in Berwick — 

 Ceremonial at First Sowing of Turnips in Drills in Roxburgh — Value of 

 Galloway Cattle in Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, and WigtowTi — The Dunlop 

 Breed of Cattle in Ayrshire — Horse-Rearing in Lanarkshire — Sheep in 

 Selkirkshire and Peebles — Advance in East Lothian — First Turnpike Act — 

 Curious Function of a Farmers' Society in East Lothian — Condition of 

 Farming in West Lothian and Renfrewshire — Fifeshire Breed of Cattle — 

 A Clackmannanshire Ploughman at Windsor — Falkirk Trj-sts — Outfield 

 Tillage in Dumbartonshire — Primitive Implements — Dodded Cattle in Ben- 

 dochy — Cattle in Forfarshire — ■Mr Barclay of Ury — Turnip Culture and 

 Cattle Management in Aberdeenshire — Small Society of Farmers in Buchan 

 — Other Societies — Bad Roads and Good Stock in Banffshire — Farming 

 Societies — Early Implements in Morayshire — -Boarding Oxen in the High- 

 lands — Primitive Life of Farmers in Cromarty — Cattle Farms being changed 

 into Sheep Runs in Ross — Live Stock and their Masters in Assynt — Good 

 Turnips at Castlehill, Caithness — An Agricultural Society in Orkney — 

 Sheep and Roads in Shetland — Farming in the Hebrides — Skye Cattle — 

 Curious Customs in Harris . . . . . . . . -Si 



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