General Report of the Agricultural State: And Political Circumstances, of Scotland, Volume 3 |
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Aberdeen Aberdeenshire acres advantage afterwards agriculture allowed animal annually arable land Argyleshire average avoirdupois barley beef Berwickshire better blackfaced bolls braxy breed breeders bushels Caithness calves carcase carried cattle cheese Cheviot Cheviot hills Cheviot sheep clover colour considerable corn counties counties of Scotland cows crops cultivation dairy disease districts ditto East Lothian employed ewes expence farm farmers fattening feeding fishery flock four Galloway Galloway cattle grain grass greater number half Hebrides Highland Highland cattle hogs husbandry improvement Kincardineshire labour lambs lease live-stock manufacture milk months nearly necessary oatmeal oats object oxen pastures peat pints plough potatoes produce profit proportion proprietors quantity reared rent Report Roxburghshire Scotch Scotland season seldom servants sheep society soil sold spyndles Sterling stones straw summer tenant tion turnips variety wages weather weight wheat whole winter wool yarn
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Page 350 - XVII. THAT from and after the Union the same Weights and Measures shall be used throughout the United Kingdom...
Page 43 - ... pointing outwards, and at considerable distance from each other; skin thin and loose; hair soft and woolly. The head, bones, horns, and all parts of least value, small ; and the general figure compact and well proportioned.
Page 123 - ... a buck. The Cheviot breed are without horns, the head bare and clean, with jaws of a good length, faces and legs white. The body is long...
Page 27 - ... any white or yellow spots. His head should be rather small, his muzzle fine, his eyes lively and prominent, his horns equable, not very thick, of a clear, green, and waxy tinge ; his neck should rise with a gentle curve from the shoulders, and should be small and fine where it joins the head ; his shoulders moderately broad at the top, joining full to his chine and chest backwards, and to the vane of his neck forwards.
Page 350 - England, and standards of weights and measures shall be kept by those burghs in Scotland, to whom the keeping the standards of weights and measures, now in use there, does of special right belong: all which standards shall be sent down to such respective burghs, from the standards kept in the Exchequer at Westminster, subject nevertheless to such regulations as the parliament of Great Britain shall think fit.
Page 322 - The herring fishery is carried on along the whole coast of the kingdom with great success, as is also the salmon fishery in all the different rivers. From the ports on the eastern coast of Scotland, a great trade is carried on to Holland, Norway, Sweden, and the different states on the Baltic. This trade has greatly increased of late years. The imports principally consist of flax, hemp, yarn, linen, iron, corn, wood, tallow, and other commodities produced in these countries; and, in return, colonial...
Page 217 - They are of a white colour ; have light narrow carcasses, with bristles standing up from nose to tail, long legs, and are very slow feeders, even at an advanced age. In the Highlands and Hebrides, the breed supposed by Dr. Walker to be the aboriginal is of " the smallest size, neither white nor yellow, but of a uniform grey colour, and shaggy, with long hair and bristles. They graze on the hills like sheep ; their sole food is herbage and roots, and on these they live the whole year round, without...
Page 41 - They are wide between the extreme points of the back bones ; the ribs are narrow and wide get, and have a greater curvature than in other kinds, which gives the body a thick round form. They fatten quickly, and fill up well at all the choice points. They are hardy, fleet, and travel well ; tame and docile, and excellent for work in the plough.
Page 28 - His hips should be wide placed, rounded or globular, and a very little higher than the back. His quarters (from the hip to the rump) should be long and tapering gradually from the hips backwards, and the turls, or potbones, not in the least protuberant ; his rumps close to the tail ; his tail itself should be thick, bushy, well haired, long, and set on so high as to be in the same horizontal line with his back.
Page 33 - He is long in the quarters, but not broad in the twist; deep in the chest, short in the leg, and moderately fine in the bone ; clean in the chop, and in the neck. His head is of a moderate size, with large rough ears, and full, but not prominent eyes, and he is clothed in a loose and mellow, though rather thick skin, covered with long, soft, and glossy hair.