140 FIELD AND FERX. 



farms; and the whole of the cows and heifers 

 are obliged to be tied up for six months of the 

 year, and kept on turnips and oat straw. Showing 

 is not much cultivated, and training for shows still 

 less ; and, except at the Royal Northern at Aberdeen, 

 the Highland Society, and very occasionally at the 

 Royal English, the herd makes no public appearances. 

 Whenever it does, there is a good old Sittyton rule, 

 that the show cattle must earn a clean bill of health 

 for nearly eight -weeks, and a field at the Longside 

 Farm is specially devoted to them. 



The brothers reckon upon about a dozen leading 

 tribes. The Fancy tribe from Captain Barclay crossed 

 well with Matadore and The Baron; and their 

 Orange Blossom produce was both prolific and pro- 

 fitable. From Sunflower of Lady kirk descent came 

 neat but small bulls; Lord Spencer's Sibyl nicked 

 best with The Baron ; and Verdant from Chrisp's of 

 .Doddingtoii with The Baron and Plantagenet, The 

 Venuses of Eennie of Phantassie's blood showed a 

 great aptitude for crossing with the polls ; Secret had 

 the Bates quality to begin with, and Lord Sackville 

 supplied the substance and improved the head ; 

 Duchess of Gloucester, a daughter of Tortworth 

 Chance, brought heifers large in the frame and great 

 in the milk vein, and the bulls of the tribe are after 

 Moir of Tarty' s own heart. Nothing laid the foun- 

 dation of more prize-winners, or hit better all round, 

 than Captain Barclay's Strawberry; and from Wilkin- 

 son's Lancaster tribe came Lancaster 25th, which was 



