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the assistance of Mr. C. Randell of Evesliam. A visit was also 
paid to the Cheshire dairy district by Mr. T. Statter and my- 
self, but a press of other matter has obliged me to reserve this 
report for the next number of the Journal. 
Quoting again the words used in the Report of the Council, 
"it is hoped that these reports will not only record any thing 
peculiar in the system pursued upon the farms themselves, but 
will also contain much useful practical information, and prove 
interesting to the general readers of the Journal." They have 
been arranged geographically as nearly as possible, commencing 
■with the Hill sheep-farm on the north, which is a gigantic 
sheep-walk, yielding only pasturage and mountain-hay, and 
coming gradually southwards through the Yorkshire Wolds, 
North Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Norfolk, and Worcester- 
shire, to a Wiltshire sheep-farm, which yields enough grass and 
green food to support a breeding ewe to the acre. The reader, 
who has sufficient interest in the subject to read these reports in 
this their natural sequence, can hardly fail to be struck with the 
immense difference in English farming caused by the variations 
in the English climate. Other differences, arising from varia- 
tions in the soil, we have endeavoured to illustrate by maps 
exhibiting the Agricultural Geology of several of the farms. 
In conclusion, it is only necessary to state that actual results 
have, as a rule, neither been asked for nor recorded, but particular 
attention has been paid to the system of farming pursued in each 
district, and also to the condition of the agricultural labourer. 
H. M. Jenkins. 
1. — A Hill and a Half-Hill Farm — Mr. Aitchison's and 
Mr. Alexander Boethwick's. By H. H. Dixon. 
" LiNHOPE " is a very familiar name on the Border. It well 
may be, as Mr. William Aitchison, who bears it by virtue of 
his occupancy of the sheep farm of that name on " the wild, 
green links of Teviotdale," is not only the largest flock master 
in the south of Scotland, but entitled both by his position and his 
ancient show prowess with Cheviots, to return thanks for "The 
Tenant Farmers" at the Highland and Agricultural Society's 
dinner. He was born at Linhope, where his father held the 
farm before him, and, in fact, his family have been connected 
with the estate of " the bold Buccleuch " for more than 300 
years. " The braw braes of Linhope " lie close by the high road, 
about half way between Langholm and Hawick, and about 
a mile from the inn at Moss Paul, whose "forty-two stalls, forbye 
loose boxes " never lacked horses in the days of the mail and 
