I4Q THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



benefits to be derived by deer from feeding off fresh 

 pastures, and he has sub-divided his forest into five 

 portions. From No. i division the deer are excluded 

 and Highland cattle turned in ; the season following 

 these are replaced by sheep, and the cattle are put 

 on to No. 3 division ; then the sheep are removed 

 from No. i to No. 2, and the deer re-admitted to 

 No. 1, and to this fresh pasture almost the whole 

 of the deer in the place will gather ; thus there 

 are successions of cattle, then sheep, then deer, on 

 each division of the forest. In addition to the benefit 

 to the deer, there is also by this method of manage- 

 ment a reduction of forest rent, as ground suited to 

 cattle and sheep fetches even yet a fair price. 



During the extremely severe weather of January, 

 1895, Mr. Angelo noticed that very large numbers of 

 deer came into a hillside covered with thick whins, 

 and that not only did they shelter here, but they lived 

 on the whin bushes, which fact may perhaps give 

 a hint to those gentlemen in whose forests trees will 

 not thrive, for I believe the whin will prosper any- 



