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park and the riv^er. The herd has been dispersed, and the farm 

 is now let to Mr William T. Malcolm for £900, being £2, 7s. 6d. 

 an imperial acre. The farm, which many consider the best in 

 the county, includes 100 acres reclaimed from the Forth less 

 than a century since, and is not only rich soil, but also more 

 workable than most of the carse farms. It is in two divisions, 

 one of 200 acres, arranged in six subdivisions so as to suit the 

 six-course rotation, but without a fence in it ; the other 180 acres 

 are similarly subdivided. There are twelve acres of permanent 

 grass close to the Forth, on which cows are pastured. Among 

 other farms on the estate of Lord Dunmore are Linkfield, let to 

 Mr John Drummond for £327, 10s. ; Plean, a dryfield farm of 

 333 acres, rented by Mr J. T. S. Paterson at £540 ; Gallamuir, 

 also a dryfield farm of 340 acres, rented by Mr John Edmond 

 for £550 ; Carbrook Mains, by Mr Thomas Hope, for £505 ; 

 Sauchenford, by Mr James Hendrie, for £238, 4s.; Plean Mill, 

 by Mr William Ptitchie, at £410 ; and Ptosehill, by Mrs Walter 

 Weir, for £576, 10s. 



Still further west, and including the carse lands near Stirling, 

 is the estate of Colonel Murray of Polmaise and Touchadam, 

 with a rental of £10,556, 7s., of which £1018 is for grass parks. 

 The mansion-house is beautifully situated on the wooded slopes 

 of Touchadam ; and the lands lie down toward the Forth, about 

 one half of the estate consistino^ of carse. There are above 

 seventy tenants, a good many of whom occupy farms at a rental 

 of £200 a-year or upwards, but some are of smaller size. Mr 

 James Christie pays £520 for Bandeath, Mr William Edmond 

 £463 for AVesterton of Cowie, and others are let from £100 to 

 £400 a-year. 



In the parish of St Ninians, a principal proprietor is Sir 

 James Piamsay Gibson Maitland, Bart., who has a rental of 

 £6163, 16s., including £1107, 10s. for grass parks. The farms are 

 wholly dryfield, generally in good condition, and well farmed. The 

 farm of Muirpark is let to Mr James Adam for £321, 5s., and 

 Townfoot and Todholes to the same for £92. Little Sauchie is 

 occupied by Mr James M'Laren at a rent of £430 a-year, and 

 Foot of Green by Mr Ximmo at £341, 5s. This is a well- 

 managed farm, with an excellent steading roofed with slates. 

 The estate is about three miles in extent from north to south, 

 and it contains some remarkably good dryfield soil. It is noted, 

 also, for fine timber and luxuriant grass. The mansion-house is 

 near the centre of the estate ; and east from it, in a wooded glen, 

 is Howietoun Fishery, a kind of industry not strictly agricul- 

 tural, but destined probably to have an important bearing on the 

 production of human food. There are houses and ponds for 

 breeding fish, with complete arrangements for sending ova, fry, 

 and yearling and two-year-old fish to all parts of the country. 



