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arrive at milking hours from Glasgow. The dairy- 

 is under the Thistle emblem, and is furnished entirely 

 with wooden vessels. Turke^^s were picking their 

 dainty way round the manure tank, and casting 

 longing eyes at the offal in the abyss, whose contents 

 are discharged through pipes for miles to the thirsty 

 meadows, and return to the fountain-head once more 

 in the shape of succulent grasses. 



Easterhill, the Carrhead of Scotland, is reached 

 from Glasgow through Bridgetown, and lies about 

 four miles out on the road to the Clyde Iron Works. 

 The owner^s tastes speak for them^selves, as you drive 

 up the beech and oak avenue, and see " Nelly"' and 

 four other sows routing in the meadow close up to 

 the iron railings. This has always been the Carr- 

 head system, and it has been the fruitful mother of 

 many a litter. They are mostly tenderly waited on 

 at Easterhill when they do come ; and we found a 

 woman with her fire and her bed in a small room 

 adjoining the piggery, and in attendance on two sows 

 which had just farrowed. Mr, Findlay began, about 

 nine years ago, with Windsors, two sows and a boar, 

 and got a Jonathan Brown boar from Cumberland 

 to cross the produce. The small breed was very 

 successful at local shows, and he consolidated it by 

 using Lord Yv'enlock^s breed with its short broad 

 face, pointed ear, great jowl, and fine quality, upon 

 his Windsors and Windsor-Browns. His large breed 

 had their origin in a Harrison boar and sow, and in 

 a short time he came second with '' Nelly^' (the dam 



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