19G Report on some features of Scottish Agriculture. 
description are kept on it every year, and the seeds are let from 
November until February for wintering 500 hoggs. The tenant 
was formerly a successful butcher, and exporter of fat stock and 
dead meat. The annexed ground-plan of the steading, which 
Fig. i. — Ground-jjlan of the Farm-sfcading nt T'qipcrty, near Aberdeen: 
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was designed by Mr, Beattie, will give a good idea of the arrange- 
ments on a modern Aberdeenshire farm, specially devoted to the 
breeding and feeding of cattle. 
Seventy feeding beasts are bought, as ten-quarters-old steers, 
in February, and kcjit on until the next winter. About 20 
queys are also bought every year, and after one calf has been 
