FOERES TO FOCHABERS. 



one side from the Shethin herd,, arid Crown Princess 

 is a purchase from Hill Head. The bull-calves and a 

 few heifers are sold along with the shearling rams 

 and some of the draft ewes every October. There 

 are 350 Leicester and 160 Southdown ewes in the 

 flock, but 60 of the latter are crossed with the Leices- 

 ter. Three or four years since the Southdowns sold 

 well, but the park (which suits the Leicester to a 

 nicety) is rather too low for them, and the Filaria 

 Jiamata and other intestinal parasites have made far 

 more havoc with their lambs. The Leicesters were 

 laid in thirty years ago from Burgess and Buckley, 

 with a slight infusion from Kobertson of Ladykirk. 

 Since then more Border ewes have been purchased, 

 and Pawlett, Wiley, Sand ay, and Cresswell tups 

 have all been used ; and about eighty shearling tups 

 are sold every year at an average of from j4 to 5. 

 There were some very good Leicester and South- 

 down ewes in " the Ward," where we sought refuge 

 from the heat under "the Duchess's lime/' which 

 spreads out its branches like a banyan-tree. It 

 needed but the drowsy tinkle of the sheep-bell to 

 persuade us that we were in Sussex once more 

 when Charles XIFths and Hyllus's match was on 

 every lip and strolling over, out of mere boyish 

 curiosity, from Bognor to Goodwood, to see the 

 sheep-shearing in the park, and to dine in the 

 tennis-court, and that the Duke, his friend Bishop 

 Gilbert, and Archdeacon Manning with that grand 

 bald head, were " still the first in the throng." 



