HERD NOTICES. 



ABBEY MAINS. 



THE large and fine -lying farm of Abbey Mains, 

 nearly three miles to the east of Haddington, has 

 its house and homestead on a gentle eminence a 

 field -breadth away from the public road, and the 

 residence, one of the substantial old order, with a 

 few guardian trees, looks squarely to the south. 

 Most of the land has a gentle fall towards the sun ; 

 enclosures are regular and spacious ; the farm has 

 excellent stone dykes and hedges, while water sup- 

 plies are of the best. Mr Thomas Kirk, who has 

 been occupying owner of the farm since 1914, came to 

 the Lothians in 1913, and took up the Abbey Mains 

 tenancy. He had been farming on arable and 

 pastoral lines at Hyndhope, in the Selkirk district, 

 and there he had bred some Shorthorns since 1910. 

 At Abbey Mains his initial handicap as a tenant, 

 with aspirations towards a first-class herd, was the 

 old-fashioned steading. When he became owner, 

 he laid his plans for a thorough renovation and 

 extension of buildings a slow and costly business 



