An account of the improvements on the estates of the Marquess of Stafford, in the counties of Stafford and Salop, and on the estate of Sutherland : with remarks. Pt.1, Sutherland / by James Loch.
- James Loch
- Date:
- 1820
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of the improvements on the estates of the Marquess of Stafford, in the counties of Stafford and Salop, and on the estate of Sutherland : with remarks. Pt.1, Sutherland / by James Loch. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[66] to send, on his own account, to Hull or Liverpool where it was put into money by the commission broker. Of late years the farmers here, under the patronage of the noble family of Stafford and Lord Eeay, have asso- ciated themselves together for their common protection, and for general purposes. A similar association was formed among the farmers of Inverness-shire and of Ross- shire, and the result of correspondence between these societies has been, the establishment of one great an- nual fair at Inverness, in June, yearly, for the sale of sheep and wool. At this annual market the wool- staplers of Leeds, Huddersfield, Wakefield, &c. as well as the dealers in stock from Yorkshire, attend, and the whole year’s produce is sold by its character, and put into money, in a few hours. The three associations I have mentioned have each three deputies, who form a central committee, that meet at Inverness, at the close of this market, and discuss whatever subjects may be most interesting to the three bodies ; viz. the regulation of the fair, the preservation of the ancient drove-roads, through the mountains, to the south, which have in several places been encroached on by the proprietors through whose ground they go, the prevention and suppression of theft from the members, which went on, in the first years of sheep farming, to an extent almost incredible, &c. In Sutherland, this sort of theft must, if it had not been checked by the dis- creet measures of the proprietors, have soon proved quite ruinous to those whose capital was embarked in sheep. You enquire about my tillage farming. I work by the six-course shift of one turnips, two barley, three, fom', and five grass, and six oats. I have increased Culmaily farm 100 acres, and built, as you know,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24880395_0262.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
