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bellies they may well wage war, as they have to fold 

 their sheep on heavy clay land, which becomes so 

 wet by the end of November that they are obliged 

 to shift them to the stubbles or old grass (if they have 

 any), and cart the turnips on. Unfortunately there 

 is far too little old grass in Haddingtonshire ; and 

 independently of there not being a permanent bite 

 on it for the stock, the seeds cannot resist the sum- 

 mer heat nearly so well. 



Mr. Lees of Maringston, Mr. Smith of Steven- 

 son Mains, Mr. Hope of Fenton Barns (the chairman 

 of the Scottish Chamber of Agriculture), and Mr. 

 Balfour of Whittingham, who bought Sam Wiley's 

 first-prize pen of gimmers at Edinburgh, and won 

 the second shearling prize when the Highland Society 

 met at Kelso in '63, are the only Leicester tup 

 breeders, so to speak, in East Lothian, though Mr. 

 Ainslie of Costerton (the owner of Duke of Tyne, 

 and a shorthorn winner of late years) may be said 

 to ^^ march'' with it. The ram sales, which have 

 been such a hit at Kelso, have been gradually ex- 

 tended to Edinburgh, under the auspices of the 

 " Lothian Ram Society." Some even of the Kelso 

 breeders prefer sending there, and the two rings of 

 1863 became four last September. 



On that day there were .twenty-four lots of 

 Leicester s, and the highest average was £9 14s. for 

 twenty-eight of the Duke of Buccleuch's. His Grace's 

 prize shearling of the day was at the head of them, 

 and was sold for £50. A score from IMr. Ain- 



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