HERD NOTICES 103 



ARNGASK. 



"What's in will out." By heredity and early 

 training Mr Wm. Constable Hunter, W.S., has taken 

 naturally to farming and stock-breeding. His father, 

 the late Mr Patrick Hunter, one of the ablest agri- 

 culturists in Central Scotland, long tenant of Ard- 

 gaith in the western section of the Carse of Gowrie, 

 and latterly owner of Waterybutts, Inchture, was a 

 son of Mr Charles Hunter, who took up the tenancy 

 of Ardgaith in 1828. In the historic section of this 

 volume reference is made to the owner of Lochton, 

 and the tenants of Monorgan and Glencarse. Mr 

 Charles Hunter married a daughter of Mr Patrick 

 Kinnear of Lochton. The Ardgaith man's brother, 

 Mr James Hunter, was tenant of Monorgan, and the 

 two had an enterprising cousin in Mr Hunter, Glen- 

 carse. The Glencarse tenant further was an uncle of 

 Mr Kinnear. Through his mother, also, Mr Wm. C. 

 Hunter comes of a Carse and district farming race. 

 On his picturesquely-set property of Arngask he is 

 still in his ancestral Perthshire, but his back is 

 very near the Kingdom of Fife, when he looks from 

 his residence through rifts in a crosswise half-avenue 

 of trees towards the setting sun. The old Tulliallan 

 herdsman would describe Arngask as being " on a 

 skelf be itself jist an' lookin' feckly Wast." The 

 foreground falls somewhat sharply to the railway, 

 beyond which is the village of Glenfarg, almost 

 completely hidden in a shaded clearance. On the 



