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their own hill-farms^ and put on turnips. The latter 

 are also bought by the low-country farmers, and are 

 kept on turnips with cake and corn all winter. In 

 fact, all through the winter, feeding as in Fife goes 

 on to a great extent, and in 1853 Mr. George Hope 

 sold off a farm of 653 imperial acres, 1,200 sheep, 

 90 cattle, and 100 pigs. Major Hunter of Thurs- 

 tonfield farms on a large scale at Thurston, Thurs- 

 ton Plains, and Woodhall, at the edge of the Lam- 

 mermoors. and breeds both pure Cheviots, South- 

 downs, Leicesters, and half-breds. His crosses are 

 Southdown tup Avith half-bred ewe, and Leicester 

 tup Avith Southdown ewe, and last year the return of 

 ewe and wedder hogg prices, at his annual fat and 

 store sale of cattle and sheep in June, showed an ad- 

 vantage in favour of the former cross. 



Shorthorns, Polls, and Shetlanders are all on the 

 Major^s sale-list, and some of the latter averaged at 

 the last sale £16 5s. a head. The cattle buyers in 

 East Lothian principally go to Jedburgh, Linton, 

 Dalkeith, Berwick, Hallow, and the Falkirks in 

 September and October, and to Hallow Fair in No- 

 vember for six-quarter and two-year-old stirks. 

 They give them turnips and oat-straw in the yards, 

 and finish them off with six weeks^ cake and bean- 

 meal, for Newcastle and the Southern markets in the 

 spring. The younger ones are kept, and soiled with 

 clover, grass, and tares, and sold oft' after six weeks of 

 turnips. The more moderate beasts, as a general 

 rule, go to Edinburgh, and the heaviest to London, 



