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This article of improvement might be pradtiſed with advati- tage in ſeveral places.

Farmers in general, not only here but through the moſt of Scotland, are adverſe to the rearing of plantations in their farms, or their immediate neighbourhood. They imagine that numerous plantations are hurtful to crops, in preventing them from ripening in due time 3 and even after they are cut down, from being ſpecdily and properly dried for the fack- yard. This objeCtion is queſtionleſs not without foundation with reſpett to cloſe plantations around ſmall fields, eſpecially if much ſheltered from the ſouth, for thereby the heat of the fun-rays is prevented from being of ſervice to the growing crops. It is ſuppoſed alſo that the roots of trees in many caſes ſpread through the ground, to the no ſmall detriment of the ſoil; and that the trees themſelves afford an harbour for Imall birds, crows, and other animals, that are hurtful to the intereſt of the farmer.--It is believed, however, that trees ju- diciouſiy planted, either in clumps or ſtrips, are of conſiderable lervice to agriculture, on account of the ſhelter and warmth which they occaſion, efpecially if planted in ſuch direCtions as to intercept the cold nipping winds from the eaſt, and the violent ſtorms from the ſouthweſt.

LIVE STOER.

NoTHING peculiar attaches itſelf to the live ſtock in this county, of courſe an account of it will afford but few obſer- vations«.

Horſes.=“Theſe are generally of the common kinds that ſtock the lowlands of Scotland. Some are the aborigines of the country: a great number are of the deſervedly famous Lanarkſhire breed, or of a conſiderable mixture of that with the native kind. Some few have 2 tineure of the blood which,