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young, and they send to the coarser grounds the middle aged or rearing stock. Again, where the lands:admit of it, where the possession is sufficiently extensive, and the

"management of pasture grounds well un-

derstood, there will be three, or more, divi- sions, to suit the same number of classes of live stock.

In some districts, as in Berwickshire, Northumberland,&c.(where the breeds are well selected, and the system of pastur- age much improved,) with a due attention to this principle, it is found that there can- not well be fewer than three divisions of the same stock, which are sent to grounds, either naturally of different degrees of fer- tility, or that, by culture, or trom the state of their produce, are calculated to afford provision different in+ quality and quan- tity. The best pasture is invariably given to the aged, and what should then be the fattening stock; the next best is given, to the ewes and lambs, or to the cows, calves, and cattle of the first year; and the inferi- or grounds are stocked with the rearing ani- mals of either kind. It is never proper, and