114 FIELD AND FERN. 



CHAFfEB 11, 



" Take spade and mattock, dig thy self- 

 Boor's labour makes thee strong and stout; 

 And herds of many a golden calf 

 Shall freely from the soil spring out." 



A ride from Fochabers to Aberdeen Back to Orbliston A Shooting 

 box The Mulben Herd The Pig Trade of Banffshire The Port- 

 soy Cartsire Stud Clydesdales Banffshire Shorthorn Beginnings 

 The Rettie Herd Mr. Rannie's Leicester Flock The Montbletton 

 Herd The late Mr. Grant Duff His Catalogue Notes The Eorglen 

 Breed of Cows Mr. Lumsden's Herefords Hereford Crosses The 

 Kinnellar Herd The Sittyton Herd Udny and Jamie Fleeman. 



country from Fochabers to Aberdeen is varied 

 enougb. For four or five miles tbe road winds 

 through tbe pine woods of tbe Altasb Hills, behind 

 which are the home shootings of Gordon Castle. 

 Careful hedgerows and good steadings mark the 

 Duke's property, which goes up nearly to Keith, 

 where the land becomes colder, and acre after acre is 

 without a fence, and occupied by a number of small 

 holders on what is called " the runrig system/' 

 Keith is famous for its artificial manures, and we 

 thought of the witches' cauldron foot of horse and 

 horn of ram in this case as we pored over the re- 

 markable bone-heap in Messrs. Kynoch's yard. The 



