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situated with gentle heights and howes and breaks 

 of woodland, it is an attractive spot with very useful 

 loamy soil in every field, mainly over limestone. 

 The Shorthorn homestead is by the river-side, where 

 a meal-mill hummed merrily in other days. Quarters 

 for the cattle are up to the times in comfort and 

 circulation of fresh air. 



MASTERTON. 



This extensive holding on the Pitreavie estate, 

 near Dunfermline, has come into fame through Border 

 Leicester sheep. The father of Mr James Butters, 

 the present tenant, took up farming at Masterton 

 almost fifty years ago. The holding has an extent 

 of about 500 acres. On the lower reaches clay and 

 strong clay loam prevail, but as the land rises to 

 fairly steep slopes over sandstone, the soil becomes 

 easier, and on the upper reaches it is a miscellaneous 

 blend of scourings from various quarters. Mr Butters 

 is also tenant of the adjoining farm of Middlebank, 

 which runs to 300 acres. Falling in with the Short- 

 horn cause in 1919, he has shown a good combina- 

 tion of caution and enterprise, and as he possesses 

 a correct eye and a large amount of general experi- 

 ence, he ought to pass expeditiously through the 

 recruit stages. Meanwhile farm buildings are being 

 gradually remodelled for the new departure. 



At the Perth spring sales of last season Mr Butters 

 selected a couple of Broadhooks heifers, a Matilda, a 

 Rosemary, and a Constance. Broadhooks Bet, a 



