344 FIELD AND FERX. 



Miss M'Gill was the first yearling heifer. ^' Come out, 

 Small Bones !" and out she came^ true to her name, 

 and Gordon as well,, with Scroggie Hill and Beauty. 

 '' Thafs Young Mary the Second, or London Mary 

 we ca' her,'' says one of the Aggies, and so stimu- 

 lated she went away at score, with the narrative of 

 how " Original Mary hung herself P Still, there was 

 an old Mary left in the land, with a good deal of 

 shorthorn character when you stood behind her. 

 There too were Sproat, Keir Lass from Barndan- 

 noch, and Graham, a business-like little cow, and 

 with not more sweetness, but more Galloway charac- 

 ter than Brown Lugs. Queen was a trifle more on 

 leg than some of them, and Beauty of Drumlanrig. 

 Halliday 2ncl, and Agnes, all owed much of their 

 nice forequarter and good thighs to Freebooter, 

 Knight of Liddesdale was roaming in his paddock, 

 and came quietly at Mr. Johnstone^s call to his loose- 

 box, with as blithe a step as the bay of thirty-two 

 summers, who was just backing a cart on to the 

 green manure-heap. 



About fifty "bacon swine'^ are reared each year at 

 Tibbers, and then finished off near the dairy at Hol- 

 stane. His Grace has kept to whites, and began by 

 crossing a white Sussex with one from Lord Sefton. 

 "With good feeding the sort would reach about 32 st. 

 at twelve months ; but of course they go off to the 

 curers when they are much lighter weights. One boar 

 struck us as having a peculiar head, and we found 

 that it was only a copy of his sire's, which was 



