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shown of late years ; and Stewart of Duntulm never 

 shows on the main land, but has fairly won the 

 championship with his "Targill" stock. One of the 

 finest family bulls was out of "Lucky/' which 

 was second at Inverness in '46;"* and after win- 

 ning the local Highland Society's prize as a three- 

 year-old the next year, carried it for old bulls 

 in 1848 at Slegichan, against a celebrated yellow bull 

 of Sir Robert Menzies' breeding. 



All the bulls and cows have Gaelic names here 

 signifying "White Tuft in the Tail," " Piley," 

 * f Beauty," "Nice," and so on. The calves are weaned 

 at the end of five months, and are kept in 

 a loose box all winter, but the cows are never 

 in-doors, and their summer consorts are removed 

 to " parks." Small tenants who have half-a-dozen 

 cows and "followers," join to hire or buy a bull; 

 and sell their stirks at a year old for 3 or 4< 

 to dealers who come before September Falkirk, 

 and take them across the ferry or by the steamer. 

 The farmers who have enough keep, hold on for 

 another year, and get their 6 to 11. There is 

 hardly any veal, except the shepherd's cross-bred 

 quey has a bull calf, and then it is killed off at six 

 weeks. Once there was plenty of kid flesh and sweet 

 goat cheese ; but the white, black, and grey lichen 



* We should have said at page 83 that Inverness "has already taken 

 its turn three tunes in the Highland Society's circuit." This is of course 

 exclusive of the '65 meeting. At page 58 the terms of the silver medal 

 contest are not correctly stated. Tenant-farmers can only compete with a 

 tup which has won a first prize at a previous competition. 



