12 THE MERRY GEE-GEE 



Lord Lonsdale, late Master of the 

 Quorn, has been particularly generous 

 and thoughtful to Leicestershire farmers, 

 making all the second horsemen keep 

 together, so that they do as little 

 damage as possible, and also issuing a 

 free register of corn, hay, and straw for 

 sale by farmers all over the Quorn 

 country, and so holding out an induce- 

 ment to the gentlemen of the hunt to 

 deal with the producer direct. 



I hold rather strong opinions, which 

 I am aware are at variance with the 

 generally accepted theory, as to this 

 forage question, viz. that by November 

 well-got new hay is as good as old, 

 and that a very big proportion of what 

 one buys as old oats off the corn-merchant 

 about the same season of the year is 

 either a mixture of new and old or new 

 altogether. Not that I think there is 



