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moreimproved progeny, and would yield more putreſcent manure, an article on every cultivated farm moſt invaluable

In this diſtri, ſwine, a kind of live ſtock which conſt tutes in ſeveral parts of England, and likewiſe in Scotland, 2 principal part'of the farmer's profit, ſeem here to.be unduiy negleded. Here, where there are many cows kept, and many ſmall dairies, pigs, to conſfume the whey. and offals. about a farm houſe, and afterwards to be fattened dn potatoes, would, as in Annandale, if once attended to, ſoon come into general eſtimation. The profits of many of the largeſt dairies in the weſt of England are generally acknowledged to be derived principally,. if. not entirely, from the keeping of ſwine z.and there it is underſtood, that each cow might have.a. pig. The cows in Kinroſs-ſhire being ſmall, every two might at leaſt afford ſuſtenance to a pig. Every huſbandman knows, that the profits of his profeſſion very much depend, in every fitua» tion,.on his paying due attention to minute advantages-

A ſingulär pra&ice prevails in this county which is not friendly to the ſpread of improvements. Among the feuers, the parents, whether from indolence,, or confidence in their children's good conduet, are in many inſtances diſpoſed to relinquiſh and give up to them their landed poſſeſlions, or the principal part of them, retaining only for themſelves ſome paltry pendicle or patch of ground; and this before their el- deſt ſon has acquired a competent knowledge in his profeſlion. They err, too, by not giving them a.competent ſtock to com- mence their operations: on the contrary, leaving them bur- dened with the maintenance, or faortiomng of the younger branches of the family. Were th& to ſend them for ſome time in their early life to more improved diftriets for infor mation, after beſtowing upon them a better ſyſtem of general education, and were they in ſettling to allow them an ample

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