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(1784), liave both got it in their veins. The former 

 came from Crisp of Doddington, and Mr. Milne went 

 to pluck the Rosebud from Holywell whenCrofton was 

 in his zenith_, and winning everything with his Gain- 

 ford heifers. He used Trctter^s Dusty Miller (9055) 

 and E-aines's Lord Stanley (18277) ; and in Ettrick 

 (14518) by Tarn Glen (10780) by Ethelred (5>)90) 

 he combined a treble Gainford dash. The Princesses 

 and Rosebuds are closely crossed in ; but their short 

 legs_, fine hair and general robust stamp show that 

 when you have made a really good foundation, you 

 need not heed the popular cry against in-breeding. 

 Mr. Milne has now adopted the Towneley plan of 

 prefixing the bulFs name, and thus "Wolviston 

 Rosebud^^ and "Napier Rosebud" were both among 

 his herd-book dames. 



The Cheviot ewes on his hill hirsel are kept up 

 each year by lambs from the Menzion flock, and 

 he takes three crops of half-bred lambs from them. 

 His flock of half-bred ewes are kept below the hill_, 

 and the lambs of both by a Border-Leicester 

 go annually to St. BoswelFs fair. The three-parts- 

 bred lambs made 32s. 6d. last year for Fife, and the 

 cast half-bred ewes 42 s. for Mid- Lothian. This 

 system of breeding prevails between Galashiels and 

 Edinburgh, where there is a great deal of artificial 

 grass. Three-parts bred ewes are very rare, and only 

 one farmer in the district h asadopted half-bred 

 tups. 



The pigs have been pretty nearly as long about 



