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winter storms and the keen blasts of spring. Cattle 

 bred on the farm thrive remarkably well, how- 

 ever, and they improve rapidly when removed 

 to sheltered low grounds. 



THE GRANGE. 



Within the last two years Mr James Piper has 

 turned from strenuous city business to landowning 

 and Shorthorn breeding. At The Grange, just above 

 Burntisland, he has 485 acres, while at Letham and 

 Conland, on the western edge of Fife near Glenfarg, 

 he holds 600 acres. The Grange, where Mr Piper has 

 his residence, is one of the most picturesque spots 

 overlooking the estuary of the Forth. Queerly 

 mixed-looking, Burntisland, with its up - and - down 

 weather-bashed frontage, crooked lanes, stiff gradients, 

 surprise alleys, couthily genteel best buildings of well- 

 burnt whin and freestone, right against quaint old 

 hints of sea-rovering, and long associations with 

 mighty hogsheads, cannie kegs, and " sundries," is 

 less than a mile as the crow flies from The Grange. 

 Working angle-wise, the severity of the pull is taken 

 out of the roadway up to Mr Piper's house and 

 homestead. Once there, the wildness of the partly 

 timbered cliffs and scaurs at the back is evident. 

 Still there is a form of " glen " road to an arable 

 plateau which was a separate holding at one time. 

 In all, the arable land extends to about 310 acres, 

 of which 90 acres are at the front. One field is so 

 steep that it can only be ploughed downhill. There 



