200 SHORTHORNS 



Ruby Augusta by Choir Boy (91,238) ; and the year- 

 ling roan Pellipar Judge of Lieut. -Colonel Ogilby's 

 breeding, sire Edgcote Regalia (125,396), dam 

 Crystal Bud (Brawith Bud family) by Newton Crystal 

 (92,658), grandam Ruby 47th Dr Jamieson's line 

 of blood by Strathmore (90,264). Rouge Royal was 

 kept two seasons, but judging by results he was 

 parted with too soon. The young stock by him are 

 of exceptional promise. The yearling Pellipar Judge 

 shows high character. He is well grown and deep 

 in flanks and thighs, and his roan with dark head, 

 neck, and legs is what breeders like. Shorthorn men 

 will follow Eccles developments with great interest. 



EDNAM MAINS AND CLIFTON HILL. 



" A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, 

 Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go." 



TENNYSON : The Lotus-Eaters, 



At Ednam Mains and Clifton Hill Messrs Robert, 

 George, and James Shiel farm about 700 acres of 

 arable land. It is a fine view from the highest field 

 on Clifton Hill southwards across the Tweed valley 

 to the Cheviots, eastwards by Coldstream and west- 

 wards by the Floors Castle and Mertoun policies. 

 Sprouton is in the near foreground to the south, and 

 Kerchesters, so long held by the Clay family, is very 

 little farther away, while to the right is the monu- 

 ment to Thomson of ' The Seasons.' Fifteen miles 

 southwards the Messrs Shiel hold two grazings, one 

 of them being the well-known Sourhope, which has 



