TALKIRK TO EDINBURGH. 5i 



Lanark, Callow, as well as some minor fairs, we liave 

 spoken in their places. 



And so we leave Jb'alkirk, and all the fair lore of 

 which it is the natural text, and taking onr mare 

 once more from her snug Keir quarters, we passed on 

 through Linlithgowshire tovrards Edinburgh. This 

 county is not an especially interesting one, and, 

 with the exception of the high farms, is mostly under 

 tillage. Bare fallovrs are quite given up, and 

 what turnip land there is generally grows yellow 

 globes, and the Fosterton hybrid or big yellows along 

 with swedes for spring. As a county it is rich in 

 old grass parks, and none of them richer than liope- 

 toun and Dalmeny. The farmers go for feeding 

 rather than breeding, except in the West, about 

 Bathgate and Linlithgow, where they princi- 

 pally keep Ayrshires, and do a little in the cheese, 

 and very largely in the butter and milk line for 

 Edinburgh. Falkirk is their great cattle mart, and 

 if they have a leaning it is rather for Irish, and occa- 

 sionally Galloway stores, which are bought as two- 

 year-olds, and kept for six or twelve months in 

 yards. 



Mr. Melvin of Bonnington is the top Leicester 

 breeder, and his tups are generally sold to cross with 

 Cheviots and a few Southdown ewes for the fat-lamb 

 market. Mr. Hill of Carlowie has 100 Leicester ewes, 

 and sold two score of his tup hoggs for good prices in 

 March ; while Mr. Melvin parts with his at the Edin- 

 burgh sales. Mr. Peter M'Lagan of Pumpherstown 



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