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 appropriated a third or a fourth part thereof to tillage—using every means in their power to augment the value of their stock and annual produeeproduce [sic] by raising natural and artifieialartificial [sic] grasses, of greatest bulk and bcstbest [sic] quality.

The rapidity with which the manufacture of Dunlop cheese was introduced into the northern district of this shire is a striking instance of the readiness with which farmers are always disposed to follow the example of one of their own rank. When an equal, depending like themselves, for subsistance in industry, prospers by means of a new project or successful plan of management, the whole neighbourhood cagerlyeagerly [sic] imitates the example set before them, and the change becomes universal, while on the contrary, if the improvement is attempted to be introduced by some rich proprietor, from motives of caprice, as thcythey [sic] suppose, and with means which they cannot so wcllwell [sic] command, it always makes its way slowly, and with difficulty. It is thus that ProvidenccProvidence [sic] sometimes puts it in the power of a person in the humblest station, to become extcnsivclyextensively [sic] uscfuluseful [sic] to society. The example of his successful industry and ingenuity, by communicating a spirit of activity and entcrprizeenterprize [sic], proves a soureesource [sic] of wealth and comfort to the whole eommunitycommunity. [sic]

Not only has our Ayrshire checsecheese [sic] been widely celebrated and cnquiredenquired [sic] after—our Cunningham dairy stock has attracted universal regard—breeding samples thereof have been introduced into every corner of the united kingdom, thcythey [sic] have also been exported unto almost evcryevery [sic] civilised nation on the globe. At no vcryvery [sic] remotcremote [sic] pcriodperiod [sic], as some of you recollect, the cattlccattle [sic] of this district were poor half-starved, ill favoured creatures, with black skins and white riggings, fired backs, the hooks on their cycseyes [sic], and the worm in their tail; and constantly liable to bcbe [sic] shot by elves and other malicious invisible agents. Whence the grateful changcchange [sic] now? I answer, it is happly produced by skill and industry. I do not say that man can create, but he has the power to alter, modify, scparateseparate [sic], and combine, every tangible substanccsubstance [sic] in nature, into whatever shape or purposcpurpose [sic] he pleases.