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about 1,000 to 1,300 half-bred, black-faced, and 

 Cheviot ewes, which they cross with Leicester tups. 

 They also feed off two-year-old wedders and black- 

 faced ewes for the butcher to a still larger extent, 

 and winter an immense amount of hoggs, of which 

 three-fourths are half-bred, and a good proportion of 

 the rest Lanark lambs. Mr. Gibb, we believe, does 

 not feed two-year-olds to the same extent as the 

 Messrs. Welsh, who are also feeders of cross-bred 

 cattle. 



Mr. Walker is the representative of the seventh 

 generation of that name in Portlethen ; near whose 

 fishing village an ancient sea captain once erected a 

 steading, and called it {( England." His farm 

 marches inland with Kingcausie, and his Angus 

 herd the only one in Kincardineshire, save 

 those of Sir J. S. Forbes at Fettercairn, Sir 

 Thomas Gladstone's of Fasque, and Mr. Parrel's 

 of Davo graze close to the- coast. About forty 

 eows and heifers compose it, and, with the exception 

 of a few females and a bull to be going on with, the 

 young stock are always sold off as calves or yearlings. 

 u Portlethen" keeps his own vineyard, and has looked 

 out for the best crosses to begin with, and then rung 

 the changes on his own tribes. We were just in 

 time to see the last of Fox Maule, by universal con- 

 sent the best Angus bull that has been seen in Scot- 

 land for many a long year. He was by Lord Pan- 

 inure's Marquis (212) from Bowie's Matilda Fox 

 by Cupbearer (59), a dam which never failed. Mr. 



