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beginning of August nothing conies out but the 

 wedder lambs, sometimes 10,000 strong. They are 

 dropped in April, and generally average about £10 

 the clad score, and go into Forfarshire, Perthshire, 

 and Argyleshire to be wintered, and sold to the hill 

 farmers in the spring. They are kept to three years 

 old, and then come out as " hill sheep'^ at Callow or 

 Falkirk, at all prices from •'4s. to 24s. At the end 

 of August, the ewe lambs and the mid (shot) wedder 

 lambs come out to the number of eight to ten thou- 

 sand each. The Northumberland and Cumberland 

 men buy them up, and many go down to Askrigg, 

 from which Yorkshire supplies itself. Part of the 

 shot lambs go north, but they are generally win- 

 tered in the neighbourhood. The ewe lambs are all 

 wanted for mule dams, and some of the lots will fetch 

 17s. 6d. There are a few double flocks in Lanark- 

 shire, and Mr. Denholmhas one of the largest — sixty 

 score of blackface and fifty score of Cheviots. The 

 most extensive blackface proprietor is Mr. Lindsay 

 of Stanhope, Peeblesshire, who has 3,000 ewes and 

 ewe hoggs, and Mr. Paterson of Eirthwood, in 

 Lanarkshire is not far behind him. 



From Biggar we passed on our way through 

 Lamington, where the hand of the proprietor, Mr. 

 Baillie Cochrane, M.P., may be seen in its neat cot- 

 tages, and a small English cliurch and lich-gate, 

 which Pugin would not have disdained. The Ayr- 

 shires began to come thick when we had crossed the 

 Caledonian line, and *^ Ayr forty miles^^ met our eye. 



