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Mr. Jameson of Kirkbank an Ayrshire man, first 

 started it in Dumfriesshire^ and in 1835 he was fol- 

 lowed up by Mr. Miller at Balgray. The Dumfries- 

 shire supplies of kye come from the Biggar and 

 Ayrshire districts. They buy them principally in 

 April, to calve at three on the grass. Dalziel of 

 Whitcastle and Stoddart of B or eland are among the 

 largest dairymen, and do it on their own account 

 with about seventy cows each ; and Miss Hope 

 Johnstone (who took the second prize for yearling 

 heifers in a class of tvv^enty at Kelso) has also a model 

 dairy. 



From Martinmas to Whitsuntide the milk and 

 cream are generally sent separately to Edinburgh, all 

 along the Caledonian line. Each day^s produce goes 

 on the following, but at no period is more than 8d. 

 a gallon got, the consignee paying the carriage. 

 The majority of the Dumfriesshire dairies are 

 managed by bowers, and the average rent is £S 

 to £9 10s. a cow, except in Nithsdale, where they 

 generally adopt the Ayrshire mode of working by the 

 stone. They have many intricate bargains — so many 

 acres of turnips for so many cows, and so many queys 

 to bring up, &c. In another dairy it will be reckoned 

 by so many cartloads of turnips to each cow, and the 

 bowers to pull them with the shaws ; or so many 

 acres of turnips and tares and a ton of bean-meal 

 may be items in the account. 



The Liddesdale hounds never get as far, and at 

 times they are sorely needed. Black Hope up 



