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quantity of acres, and on the same ground, and have annually consumed one-third less hay. This sufficiently proves the smaller animal is better for the stock breeder; and from my own observations of South Down and other different sorts of sheep, I have ever found the smaller sheep pay most for their food. Iam therefore led to believe the same argu- ment holds as good with the smaller sheep, as in the smaller beasts. If this Society will look to the /ow, wez, and rich soils of this kingdom, where large oxen have been usually fed, the graziers there(generally) are feeding Scotch, finding the smaller most profitable. Andif we look to

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Smithfield, we find the smaller animal is always taken in preference, by the greater number of butchers. I beg also to mention pzgs,(an animal by no means so much attended

to as it ought) that invariably the smaller kind come soon-:

est to maturity, and ever pay most for their food at any profitable age.‘The consumer must be ever advantaged A| by the smaller animal, it having proportionably much less‘

offal. Of horses, I need not observe the larger animal has

but its particular use; the middling must, for general use, be

ever preferred, C. Gorpon Grey. Tracey Park, 1804..|

Mr. Marruews, the editor, subjoins to this article seve- ral judicious remarks on the same subject. He informs the public, that‘among the different objects of improvement to which the attention of this Society has been long directed, none has been more remarkable than that of improving, on sound and general principles, the various kinds of Live Stock; an object confessedly of great moment. The ardour which| the Society has evinced under this head, had been excited by the prevalence of an opinion, which in many instances seemed to be gaining ground, that the largest races of ani-

mals were the most profitable to the farmer, as paying most