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embalmed in consequence at Dr. Grayson^ s Thornhill 

 Museum. 



About 160 Highlanders with a slight admixture 

 of Shetlanders were grazing in the Park, and as they 

 stood on its banks or plunged into the Nith to drink, 

 they composed a cattle group which made us yearn, 

 for the third and last time in Scotland, for the 

 camera. The West Highlanders are bought up at 

 2h years at the Falkirk September and October 

 trysts, and are kept two years, and then sold at about 

 a £10 profit at 40 to 44 stone of 141bs. to the London 

 and Liverpool butchers. The flock numbers 1,200 

 Cheviot ewes, whose annual cast is replaced by 

 seconds at Lockerby, and crossed with a Leicester- 

 tup from Mr. Wilkin^s or Mr. Beattie^s, and the 

 lambs are sold off at 22s. to 28s. Two hundred black- 

 faced ewes are also put to the Leicester for mules, 

 which sell well about home to the feeders at from 

 16s. to £1. Many of them go to be turniped in 

 Galloway, and find customers from the South in 

 spring. 



The ewes were sharing with the Ayrshires the 

 great 125-acre meadow by the Carron side, in front 

 of the Holstane Mains, which lie snugly under Castle 

 Hill, one of the green outspurs of the Louthers. It 

 was milking-time, and the "little- white ivories^^ were 

 left in possession while Prince by Tower led in his 

 fair and flecked followers. He won the gold medal 

 at Sanquhar, and we found in him a good correc- 

 tive to those shorthorn points which it had been often 



