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"And as for cattle one yearling bull 

 Was worth all Smithfield. market full 

 Of the golden bulls of Pope Gregory." 



HOOD. 



The Weathercocks of Stonehaven The Sea Coast Road and The Mearns 

 Stock of the District Bulls at Fernyflatt Yorkshire Calf Trade 

 Angus Commentaries The Kinnaird Valley Old Montrose 

 Black Herds The Kinnaird Castle Steading Druid and Cupbearer 

 The Great Forfarshire Covers Callow Fair Cortachy Castle- 

 Highland Crosses Laying down Permanent Pasture without a Crop 

 The Cortachy Herd and Dairy. 



pigs, which, owing to their presumed capacity 

 of scanning the "viewless forms of air," sur- 

 mount most of the Stonehaven weathercocks, stood 

 at 7 a.m., with their snouts due east. We had had 

 a wild night of it, with the waves at very boisterous 

 play just behind the Ury Arms ; and the wind blew 

 bitterly as we scaled the heights of the coast road 

 towards Bervie. Our line of country was through 

 a deep, alluvial loam, while the old Defiance road, 

 which lay some miles to our right, winds its way 

 through the lighter and more " gravelly soil of the 

 Mearns." A large amount of potatoes, beans, and 

 wheat is grown between Bervie and Montrose. The 

 pastures and part of the turnips near the sea are let 

 during the winter for blackfaced hoggs and wedders 



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