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Title: Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Groome, Francis Hindes, 1851-1902
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Publisher: Edinburgh : T.C. Jack
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KINCARDINESHIRE KINCARDINESHIRE of turnips, and it is stated that the crop was consideredso rare that it was sold in small quantities, at one pennyper stone, for kitchen vegetables. This crop was culti-vated on only a very few farms till 1775, but by thebeginning of the present century it was grown all overthe county. Sown grasses were not in general use tillabout 1770 ; but it is stated that, as early as 1730, SirWilliam Nicolson of Glenbervie, a spirited cultivatorat an early period, raised hay from sown seeds, not,however, from the seeds of any of the species of clovernow in use, but from such seeds as were found amongthe natural meadow hay. The number of cattle in 1807was 24,825, and it is stated that a four-year-old Mearnsox. weighed about 45 stones. The best cattle are de-scribed as black or brown, or brindled with spreadinghorns. There were also some very good polled cattlesimilar to, and, no doubt, of the same breed as theBuchan Humlies, the progenitors, along with theAngus Do

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