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other stock, a large number of bulls. We found no 

 less than twenty, nearly all of them shorthorns and 

 from the North of Scotland, stowed away in every 

 nook and corner of his buildings, and had a faint 

 realization of Bash an at last. There was every in- 

 ducement to linger in that snug parlour, which was 

 Lincolnshire to the life, but we had a heavy list of 

 calls in our note-book, and a really fine afternoon 

 was not to be spurned. The spray was dashing over 

 the little pier of John's Haven, and every thing 

 along that grand sea board was so full of life, that 

 we seemed to feel for the first time that our heavy task 

 was really beginning to " give." 



There is some fine old grass land at Brotherton 

 beyond Bervie, where Mr. Hercules Scott keeps 

 Balwyllo blacks and Sittyton shorthorns. Between 

 Brotherton and Montrose there is very little grazing, 

 but beasts are simply "wintered and sold off gradually 

 to the London and Glasgow dealers. Mr. Miller, 

 the Montrose butcher, buys about fifty a week for 

 Glasgow ; and Mr. Scott sends a great deal of dead 

 meat as well both to London and Newcastle. It is 

 a peculiarity of the latter market, which may be 

 traced in the biddings at Earl Durham's annual 

 sale, that it does not care for steers nearly so much 

 as neat cutting heifers, both in winter and the 

 hot summer months. Nearer Montrose and down 

 towards Forfarshire the farmers do much more 

 in store beasts, which some of them get from Fal- 

 kirk ; but the Yorkshire calves are still in the 



