250 FIELD AND FERN. 



breed at a leading Irish show is among the white, 

 blue, and orange array. Sixty to seventy bullocks 

 are also fed off annually at Mill Hill, where his lord- 

 ship's factor, Mr. M'Claren, resides. The feeding is 

 principally managed in boxes, under one roof, and 

 the partitions take out so that the dung-cart can be 

 backed in. His lordship considers, from his experi- 

 ments, that the value of manure thus made, and 

 ploughed in at once, is very superior to that made 

 in the usual way. The pigs are from Hewer and 

 Tombs of Hatherop. His lordship began with Berk- 

 shires, and has come back to them as most prolific, 

 and most easily fed, after running over all the white- 

 pig gamut, from the large Yorkshires and Radnors, 

 so on through the three W's Windsor, Wenlock, 

 and Wiley. 



Mill Hill has also a cottage fitted up as a Turkish 

 bath for cattle, which has been found most efficacious 

 in cases of pleura and rheumatism. The time for 

 keeping them in is 1 to 1 hours, and they are well 

 douched with cold water when they come into the 

 drying parlour. 



The Castle Hill steading, where young William 

 Ward was the herdsman, lies about a mile and-a- 

 half from Mill Hill, on the Perth side of the Priory. 

 It is now twenty-nine years since his lordship entered 

 upon the breeding of pure Shorthorns. He began 

 from the stock of Rose of Cottam, which he crossed 

 with Lord Ducie's Champion (11264) and with 

 Mr. Fawkes's Belted Will (9952). He then hired 



