38 ON THE AGKICULTUKE OF THE COUNTY OF SUTHEELAND. 



of outrun or lull pasture allotted to each farm being slio\vn 

 alongside : — 



Colaboll, , . . . 

 Aclinanearain, . 

 Achadaphris, . 

 Lubvrec, .... 

 AVest Shiness, . 

 Aclinanearain Lots, . 

 Acbadapbris „ 



Totals, .... 1829 9120 



The farms of Achadaphris, Lub\Trec, and Shmess, are still held 

 by the Duke, and are entered in the Valuation Eoll for 1878-79 

 at £400, £300, and £500 respectively. The greater part of the 

 outrun originally belonging to Shiness farm (the farm on which 

 the reclamations took place) is still attached to that farm, which 

 carries a stwck of over 2000 .sheep. The Master of Blantyre, the 

 Duke's nephew, holds the other two farms, Colalwll and Ach- 

 nanearain, at a rent of £526, 12s. The small lots are let, along 

 with a common outrun, to seven tenants, whose arable areas 

 range from 6 to 20 acres in extent. They have good slated 

 houses and suitable steadings, and pay from 18s. to 26s. per 

 acre of rent for the arable land, and from 2s. to 2s. 6d, per acre 

 for the outrun, which is enclosed by a substantial fence. Of 

 these small tenants one is a mason, another a carpenter, and the 

 other five are respectable labourers, who in their spare time get 

 employment on the larger farms. 



No fixed rotation has as yet been adopted, but the land is 

 being worked in that direction. Some of the poorer parts have 

 been laid down in pasture with rape and grass seed's, and these 

 have turned out well, maintaining stock in good condition. Oats 

 and turnips are the crops generally grown, Swiss oats yield from 

 4 to 6 quarters per acre, and weigh on an average 38:|- lbs. per 

 bushel. Sandy oats give a similar yield, and weigh from 41 to 

 42 lbs. Longfellow oats grow well, but are rather late in 

 ripening. Canadian oats have also been tried on Shiness farm, 

 and have been found to be early, weighing about 44 lbs. per 

 bushel. In good seasons har^i'esting begins about ten days later 

 than on the south-east coast of the county, but this year (1879) 

 there has been very little difference. The Smss oats at Lairg, 

 and the barley on the coast are usually ready for the reajaer 

 about the same time, and this year all the Swiss oats at Lairg, 

 covering 160 acres, were secured in excellent condition by the 

 2 5 til of September. In spring the land is in a fit condition for 

 cropping in good time, and those who reside in the new arable 

 district say that the winter is not more severe than in other 

 parts of the county of similar elevation, and that they are not 



