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habits and sizes, nor in any other respect unsuitable matches.—Notwithstanding the confessed advantages derived from cross- breeding, yet great or sudden changes are improper; because such have been found injurious to the health and character of the stock. It has been remarked, that when a slender mare of much blood is covered by a coarse, heavy horse, of the black< fen breed,’ the offspring, or colts, generally turn out a spurious race, possessing little of the strength or size of the one, and per- haps still less of the spirit, activity, fine form, and other estimable properties of the other parent. Bulls of the improved Lan- cashire or long-horned breed of cattle, when coupled with Galloway cows, have on trial, it is said, produced no improve- ment on the latter sort of stock. Neither, some time ago, was any advantagé derived from these and some other refined sorts from England, introduced with the best intentions, by different gentlemen, into the county of Fife. The use of rams of the new Leicestershire or Dishly stock, has, with several coarse flocks of sheep, been attend-