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tween ſun rifing ard ſun ſetting, to prevent them from be- ing tormented with flies and other inſeds. They are fed with clover, and the manure they produce 1s of confide- rable valve. The ſmall farmers, till within theſe 20 years, gave their horſes no other food, in the ſummer ſeaſon, than thiſtles pulled from the growing corn, together with ſome coarſe grafles, cut with the ſickle from the ditches, and uncultivated patches of land. Many of them were al- lowed to range upon a bare piece of zom:nal graſs, where no feeds had ever been ſowed, and where the land had been wholly exhaufted by repeated crops of cats.

Cattle. Very few cattle are reared in the county. The inhabitants are well ſupplied by dealers, who, from the North and Weft Highlands, which are entirely breeding di- ſtridts, and in the near neighbourhood, drive cattle, of all ſorts and ages, throngh every part of the county, for at leaſt three months in the year. The greateſt market for cattle in the iſland 1s held at Falkirk, three times a-year, in Au- guſt, September, and Of&ober. They are commonly called the Try/!s of Falkirk, and have been frequented paſt all re- cord. The fair in October is the greateſt. From 30,000 to 50,000 head of cattle'are then uſually ſhowed in the courſe of a week. Many of them are brought from the remoteſt parts of the highlands and iſlands; and ſome from the low country. One may ſee, in the ſame field, cattle offered to ſale from 158. to L. 25 value. The diſtillers and farmers in Scotland generally truſt to the Falkirk September and O&ober fairs for the purchaſe of half fat cattle, the feeding of which they complete in the courſe of winter. The ſize moſt approved of, for this purpoſe, commonly ſells from L. 6 to L. 12.

The value of paſture graß, in the vicinity of this market, is greatly enhanced, owing to a competition amongſt the drovers to take fields, eſpecially thoſe that are well fenced, where they depoſit their cattle a few days before the mar- ket; and, if purchaſers do not appear, they keep them on.

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