Breeding, Rearing, and Feeding, Horses, Cattle, and Sheep. 69 
by experience the breeder can go to work iu somewhat of a systematic way to 
obtain what he wants. In breeding horses there is nothing of all this, every- 
thing is done at random. 
With regard to sheep and cattle, a part of both do best on a farm usually, 
for this reason : sheep are fond of particular kinds of grasses and plants ; they 
eat these, and leave the kinds they do not like ; and the former by degrees, by 
being constantly eaten down, are overrun by those kinds that sheep do not 
like, and die out. The pasture then becomes bad for sheep ; the same may 
be said of cattle, to a less extent. An ordinary grass field, therefore, is better 
grazed with cattle one part of the year, and with sheep another. Both going 
an the same field together is bad for the cattle ; the sheep eat the finer grass, 
and the cattle do badly. 
The " Coquet-side " cart-horse is hghter rather than the Clydesdale, but has 
far more action than any other breed of cart-horse that I know of. Border 
Leicester, Cheviots, and Black-faced sheep, and the breeds between these, are 
common here. Half Border Leicester and half Cheviot are now coming very 
much in fashion. 
Thomas Foksteb, Jun. 
58. Ckuivie, Fife, 
I think farmers might breed more horses, cattle, and sheep, with profit to 
themselves. 
On the better class of soils, cultivated on a regular rotation of cropping, and 
not thoroughly fenced, it is preferable to purchase horses rather than breed 
thera. On the other hand, it is preferable to breed horses on grassy deep land, 
where it is well fenced. Ihe best districts for breeding and rearing horses are 
those generally in a secondary climate, with deep grassy soils, which are not so 
valuable for growing grain and green crops. 
On the best class of faims, where a large extent of grain and potatoes are grown 
an regular rotation of cropping, and in a dry early climate, without permanent 
pasture, it is better to purchase store-cattle for feeding than breed the whole, 
as generally more cattle are required to consume the turnip-crop than can 
'be grazed through the summer. It is more profitable to use artificial feeding- 
stuffs on fattening cattle than on breeding or keeping stock. 
I have no experience of hacks or hunters. On strictly arable land it is better 
to breed and feed cattle and sheep than horses ; but I would combine the 
breeding and rearing a few agricultural horses wherever the holding is suitable 
for grazing them. 
1 consider the rearing and feeding of cattle and sheep combined the best. 
Sheep are better than cattle on thin dry soils, especially where it is also steep. 
Cattle are better than sheep on heavy strongish soils, and especially where 
there is old rich grass. I have not known any I'armer breed horses extensively 
jn this cotinty. Clydesdale horses, Shorthorn cattle, or good crosses of that 
breed — Leicester, Cheviot, and Shropshire Down sheep, or crosses of these 
breeds — are most suitable for this part of the country. 
Alexander Eeid. 
59. CouLAKD Bank, Lossiemouth, Elgin, N.B. 
I think that, were British farmers guaranteed compensation at the end of 
fheir tenancies for value of unexhausted manures and feeding-stuffs, they could 
