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each is commonly small. The ancient dun-faced breed is theprevalent one ; it is confined to the higher grounds. Some Black-faced ewes are kept as a flying stock ; and the lambs first, andthen the ewes themselves, fattened in the course of the season.A few of other breeds may be found in the hands of proprietors,as in other counties ; but their number is inconsiderable.
3. Horses. —These are not materially different from the horsesof the Lothians. Breeding has been more attended to of late ;but it is believed that the numbers bred are scarcely adequate tothe supply of the county.
A great number of Swine are fattened by distillers. At corn-mills too they are numerous, and farmers and cottagers have oneor more in almost every part of the county. Rabbits are bred in.considerable numbers on the extensive links and sand-banks alongthe shore, but are not considered an object of importance. Poul-try of all kinds much the same as in other counties. Pigeonswere much complained of, but their numbers have been dimi-nished. Bees are said to be seldom productive of much profit,and are but little attended to.
. 2. Kinross- shire.
3. Clackmannanshire.
1. Cattle _The cattle stocks of these counties chiefly consist
of the breeds of the adjacent districts of Perthshire and Fife -shire. In Kinross-shire about 900 are reared annually, and theordinary stock is about 5400. At the distillery of Kilbagie inthe county of Clackmannan, the number of cattle annually fed,previous to the year 1788, amounted to about 7000, and of swineto 2000. There were five other considerable distilleries in thecounty, where great numbers of both kinds of stock were fatten,cd, but these have not been mentioned.— {Kinross and Clackman-nan Reports.)
2. Sheep —In neither of these counties are sheep very numer-ous. In Kinross-shire they are estimated at 6100, partly of thesame breed as in Fifeshire , and partly of the Black-faced kind.In the county of Clackmannan, the number is stated at 7000 onthe mountains, almost wholly of the Black-faced breed, and a-kout 1000 on the lower grounds.
3. Horses. —In Kinross-shire, the number of horses of all de-scriptions is 1060, of which from 600 to 700 are employed in a-griculture and the different labours of the county. Morp horsesare reared than are required for supplying the stock. In thecounty of Clackmannan few horses are bred ; they are mostlypurchased from the western counties.
On all the great farms of the latter county a piggery forms anessential part of the establishment. The large Hampshire breedare preferred for the distilleries : that which is most esteemed a-suong farmers is tlic Chinese . The district of the Ochills is-sitv*