882 
wool pi producers. They are generally four and five years 
os wedders, 
for 
2s. to 308., iq the Holsteiners 
| fraction o£: what every co 
f the 
all figures fro 
wi fetah. у эмы 181. pa 31. Thes 
M 
nation gliness, with 1 
mos em with a strong. das of Merino blood 
week, so that it is possible to look back over the books [ 
more than six Lo cim "- e within a 
Taking | afte: 
est чш їп ho height of the | 
Ib. of 
day afterwards; buta almost the whole of 
ed at Candlem 
the 
Sie they do ne skins make 7s. 
to 8lb. per e but the bett 
— 
The wing is an account of the show jockeying a 
CE competition for prizes offered to dairy 
stoc! 
The show dodges of the Ayrshire men ма 
S haa na and not unattended with danger, a 
man in his last 24 hours of a 
fairly burst his bull. A ns deal depends upon the 
jockeying during that time, puces is 
set till four or five hou 
h 
agencies и should ge turned out quite the mgri in 
ihe m 06 ows are also kept well up to ‘tid?’ 
dur omen the season with gruel made of Linsee 
meal, (шен 8 pos I diluted with their own milk, 
and sometimes as much as 31Ь, of treacle in it. 
cut 2 in БКаре-саке 
hay and Beau-meal in 
layers, and then steamed; and the be ge waggon, which | i 
s on a tram-road with turn- tables, bears two pails | f 
т 
vera lar; have is had more than sufficient to d the um 
nd | Grass, we Y that 702 milki ings. produced 81 1001 апа Кеер themselves and their families for Aes 
milk, or 81 10 gallons with gerhaps 1007. over, aud they could firt 
as a large propor- crear at Ayrshires differ very widely, may. be paid forehanded rents. When they enter on кэз 
Plenty kill at only lb. | seen by g this 9-quarts-a-day average that way, they get very little off of it d 
as | Glengall's, who NIE 1 rt da fraction daily | the months are out. If there isa WAy-goin 
for 58 ive wee or seven weeks, between | the probability is that they don't buy above : € 
t| May 7 -— July 3, кА averaged a trifle beyond | the crop. There have not been many seq LAN 
6 gallons а day; and Colly Hill, who led in 1860. eh the neighbourhood. Many of the farmers haye wes 
still prem gallons at her best, and beat them all s years on the same farm,— much more than lene, 
er Marion last Sept em mber. hey certainly could not, as a class, pay forehand 
і lieve they have improved a great deal of mens 
‘strong prepara ng and a two horse- -ро wer engine, s a corn id dn oil- | high land, which would not have been improved obe 
cake bruiser, Turnip pulper, a and hay, chaff, and straw- wise, the laudlords ing almost universaily exenta} 
generally kep the draining and the fencing. I don't think и а 
оге the show., If the end of the byre. The four boilers are filled with | i i mall farms into 
nches long, o i 
mixture to every co 
w per day. 
TE ve each a soap-box, a 
The four 
a towel, and a curryco After 
each milking they scrupulously w Gb "their КҮМ. апа 
ets | the s br gue: in their A 
he milk- 
y keep thei 
At o pic pimi [3^ regular 
rake or r 30 lb. of milk i is weighed, and then 
e calculation i is that o 
shape of the ата is also as re rdg looked em aad | gallon should be equal to a pint of cream, if it is fine all the younger men would e A man 
adjusted TM Spanish cock’s com hich was, eather and it rises properly, and that a rt of|of that gort has a depone + of saving "оці, of money, 
в, | cream sh ould produce about a pound of butter; but to entera farm or 2001. df 
till just before going into Bingley Eni ics "y is|this is hardly borne out in practice, On'y skim-milk rent; but, if the rent is 5001. о о i no chan, 
put below the vessel with Ne P IM e tents, and tied | che ade, and pearly, a hundred flagons at Ње |І I would not ay the land is better роб 
with strings round. the со as to keep it in | door of the dairy were ready to receive the milk of the | men than it would be if 16 were in the hands of men of 
Polon, and the vessel is "ved lh c cold water all night betore, and e APRI 16 аб а penny à quart capita al; but NEER has been a very large amount of 
imp 
night, to make it flat and contracted and give it con- 
are also washed over aa vat e and | 
the Р lights put in with soap a netimes 
w barbers use butter-milk for the legna em take 
to hair-oil, a nd пе ede: hh оре with charcoal or 
Hawthorn ёва nce with an Cd s superstition Е 
In short, the day. and might before the show are in 
maid fashion to shift sides so as to "bal ance y ed m T look on as a very valuable ж of men, I thik 
but it w he cow | the йону of them obe emigrate., Their sonsam 
often Беш shilty and Ticked over ЕШ рай, Each|grieves and foremen, who are looking forward № 
carried 50 
through Dunkeld, fi 
n 
то ovement made upon it. The farms - bed 
e full, not deir of is m M as анэ? 
| or energetic enterprise of agriculture, b we im е 
| the romance t country life in every pha 
cleverly берени . 
where of cou untin 
day at the Royal Academ my. 
of the 
The j p 
*the little game,” which extends to scraping rams’ horns 
almost to the quick, and then јара 
оп allfours я that artistic clipping to Ee 2 
in i old Val Barford, K,C.B. (Knig 
ts ukase." 
thors уте of the late Duke of 
on agricultor st, and a description of his 
A 
«16 rd sonietbíng heroically grand to 
ard), s struggled s0 long, till the Real | 
The Cattle Hine! 
vention. 
Professor т "ve y Sur, 
cultural College, Cirencester. 
Lio ee desque 
This and Алса 
А. * Murray, Ross Api 
ery in the К 
Аст 
gr 
аз ad 
There hc o eroe pictures пае 
ing, racin h And 
we shall evenit give ш p С benefit of some 
mere farming sketches which are also here 
p History, Treatment, and Pre- | t 
Taylor & Fondos Bed follo 
account iy e. „Steppe | 
— exten t tl —— are dairy farms, Th 
te clear uk 
the rent was 
would certainly be. quite prepared to gi 
of hypothec so far, that ond ДБ 
k o Ag ound, when i Ж 
I iia think b t all seq! 
LAE und derstand 
following 
Jide sold and paid for. 
tions should be Бан in the ren 
Niels чт he preparation of which t 
been „at pains to study the disease P. чб of t 
as bro out, and de see 
in the M ofthe ring at Kelso, all а up, to 
hide th "x — t terrible "malady 
will not i prin when I d o the four 
ea t; 
t 
When he could har ving th 
Dunkeld station to ГЕ the "лде К som 
Ayrshire cows, which h selecte pes for t 
dairy at Bal almoral ; and later в till, 
for the 1 ve "is Higbndors | to 
after onere je kiss her Majesty's 
d, he Pres DA аера the gloom of that sad parting 
77 giving them the word Ф three lusty cheére. 
"It w ent of the Hi 
lie ss Dowager, 
piii d знал have taken an equal interest 
erd his decease. 
a The herd never exceeded 50 cows in milk, and 
-including a few cross-breds and a J ersey ; ;h er Grace. has 
n the 
ev 
which was | a 
is life, and yet аму giving | of 
arees $ and higy dg ieri со 
h 
Royal c 
e it en 
p rom the published works of need 
1 "This m 
орегайоп for its suppress ion. тз е 
now issued is a sensible and а rate account of the 
malady, and will no d: тет. the wide circulation 
it deserves, Professor ттау r recommends ,half an 
phuri == 
as not desde beyond the immediate locality. |: 
- | Mutual Insurance Associations have bee; en formed at 
ог 
тор і 
тА cases 16 was 
It is very d E UN to "Y 
а farm of 1 
n doi 
vnerally 
b» them їп n sma! rt pt 
ve been doin 
farm, He 
several instances о 
in a quart of cold water, to be given twice a “day i in 
esty 
cases where it is considered desirable. to treat the 
тегс н 
reír sons in farm 
The father iri 
end of a le 
small Чана 
fore- — his farm at the 
all emigra! 
n the treatment, ud ү ch t ader must consult 
ud pamp! biet. “Тш теше айсы, БЫ, һе 
Ph * that дауу із че recommended when there 
much risk of spreading the contagion.” 
Farm 
We take advantage of the immense body of agricul 
evidence lately takeu before the Hypothec Mo Oómatnleott at 
Edinburgh to publish such extracts from it as A iudieate 
the existing style of Scottish e and the enterprise 
and energy of Scottish agriculturists.] 
Continued from >= 808. 
үп 
at 
tural | to 
) 
E KIPPENDAVIE, PERTH : Mr. John Stirling.—I | 
, 18. HOLMSTON, · NEAR Ayr: Mr. Јат 
It is recu 950 acres 
| x my rent is а lito over 7 y te 
Mar tinmas, That s iu gene 
Martinmas. Tie Jan: 
the p 
gni. tenants 
utor district of Perthsl. aire, and in part of Stirling. 
r | The — ^ue of them are small farmers, paying from 
of th 
es eir land 
тз 
e law were 
al 
Ih s D pm 
operates nd чау 
Is ЖЕ dil 
Be at, if tb 
ны would gi 
| than the; ey do at present. 2 
value 
9s. 
- 2 
гаи It is а late district, 
su a good led d in ш И роог йшй. They |f 
M very im nants, bere has been get 
improvement, in the б 20 years, They use а g 
т 
8, 
 mearly as many at present, 
Dunkeld. The milk was first reduced to the presens 
AT dm of of sar on opor 31st, 185; ; and | 
milk is 
жа 
cows are away 
now, which was die т 
unknown 20 years ago. а great many id them are sons | 
of farmerg, who were to the business, and who 
wera put into them 
dem Legs, and lait were, аё 
is taken from the preceding and following | 
artinmas 
жч ig gts M at е ат, and Whitsun- 
the re 
"n secu rity ; 
5 
=—@ 
| The 
| ні "and for nineteen years, 
ney for a few m — 
o ska as mud 
