8 FIELD AND FERN. 



The byre is 80 by 60 feet, and well pa^^ered with prize- 

 tickets. Seven of them are Coilyhiirs, and all of 

 those firsts; in fact_, she never was beaten but once, 

 and then almost immediately after calving. No 

 butter or cheese is made here, but the cream goes to 

 Glasgow with sweet and skim milk. The calves, of 

 which his Grace rears 30 or 40 and seldom sells bulls, 

 are always brought up with sweet milk for two or 

 three months ; they then get on to oilcake and grass, 

 and gradually to cut hay, steamed turnips, boiled 

 barley, and barley-meal twice a day. 



At one time the late Duke used to breed West 

 Highlanders at Arran, but Mr. Allan Pollok so 

 invariably beat him at the Highland Society that 

 he did not persevere. His Grace began again in the 

 heat of the Breadalbane sale, and bought four or 

 five lots. They went, like the rest of his stock, to 

 Kelso, in order that the wish of his life — never to see 

 the West Highland, Ayrshire, or Clydesdale ranks 

 bare at the Highland Society — might be fulfilled in 

 his death, and were sold on the ground to his 

 Breadalbane opponent, the late Duke of iVthole. 



We are quite in the county of Clydesdales here, 

 but still there is no great stud of them, and some of 

 the best have been bred by farmers keeping four or 

 five work mares. The Clydesdale is well suited for 

 the cold climate, and except for breeding milk ponies, 

 the thorough-bred horse is very little used to cross 

 them. Judging from the Barrhead Society prize- 

 list, there is a distinction even in this class of dairy 



