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with the Guernſey or Alderney breed. The fize may be gueßſled by ſaying, that the weight of the beſt cows may be from 20 to 23 ſtones, 14 1b. Engliſh per ſtone.

Sheep. A conſiderable part of the moors of this county is paſtured with ſheep, almoſt univerſally of the black-faced kind, uſually denominated the Linton breed. A(ſmall part only of the ftock of the ſheep-farms 15 reared in the county. Farmers provide themſelves from Tweeddale, or the High- lands. They buy in at one year old, and ſell out at three or four; at which time the wedders commonly give from 105. 6d.to 185. per head. A part of the upland in this county af- fords ſo good a bite for ſheep, that wedders have been fatted on the mountain of Benlomond, at the height of 2300 feet above the level of the ſea, and ſold for 205. a-piece. The pa- ſturing by ſheep, upon theſe high grounds, has evidently, in the courſe of 20 years. paſt, improved the quality of the herbage, ſo as to raiſe graſs of a good ſpecies, and in very conſiderable abundance, where nothing formerly prevailed, but bad kinds of graſs, and theſe in no great plenty: and the pradice bids fair to baniſh heath from all the places that are paſtured by heep. An acre and a half of this upland paſture are required to make a wedder fat. It 1s likewiſe remarked, that the hills of Campfie, Fintry and the neigh- bourhood,'which have been paſtured by ſheep for almoſt half a century paſt, are much improved in the quality of the graß, and the heath is gradually diſappearing. In that part of the county which is laid out in ſIheep-walks, 2a con- fiderable ſtock of milch-cows is always Kept; and a large portion of the rents of theſe farms is paid by the produce of the dairy. One noble proprietor, the Duke of Mont- roſe, is now making experiments 40 aſcertain which of the breeds of ſheep is beſt adapted, and moſt valuable for this di- trit. His exertions, in this important article of huſbandry, are likely to be crowned with ſucceſs. He ſeems to prefer, up- .on the whole, the Bakewell, or Cully.breed, as they are called in the north of England, The lambs, for two years paſt, have

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