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calves has been excellent, especially during the last 

 three or four years. At the Aberdeen October sale of 

 1919 three Augusta heifer calves by Collynie Golden 

 Star averaged 600 gs. At the home farm the roomy 

 main byre with its creosoted pine roofing and one- 

 eighth-inch spacings between the boards set from 

 ridging to eaves has attracted the attention of 

 advanced stock men. The air in the building is 

 always pure, there is no trouble from rain, and only 

 on rare occasions does a little dry snow come through. 

 Mr Wylie Hill has an admirable blend of business and 

 recreation at Balthayock, and his principal servants 

 can rank with the best. 



BEARCROFTS. 



The farm of Bearcrofts near Grangemouth may be 

 said to be on the eastern edge of the range of Carse 

 land which stretches across Stirlingshire from the 

 Gargunnock district, east-south-east to the widening 

 of the Forth. Bearcrofts, extending to 180 acres, the 

 property of the Marquis of Zetland, and Awells, 

 running to 90 acres, owned by Mr H. Graham, 

 Falkirk, are farmed as one by Mr Robert Meikle. 

 The area is typical wheat, beans, and timothy-hay 

 land, merging in parts to a sandy loam. Near the 

 Forth-side beds of sea-shells show that the swish of 

 the salt water must at one time have been powerful 

 where one's footing is now well removed from the 

 furthest encroachments of the tides. It is an exposed 

 farm in the spring of the year, only one or two fields 



