were on the farm ; fertility must be less, and drawbacks arising " Commercially " stocked with sheep, not too heavily \ say hinds here up to u stone clean weight. them, they are most excellent venison. A pretty Royal shot chance as Jura stags, instead of being shot at 5 or 6 years old probably they would at least equal Jura stags. Forty years ago in mist. They resemble Harris stags in head and body. Like other hand Jura spring feeding is ready earlier than Ross-shire TARBERT. 33 parison of any value. There may be 12 stone hinds in Jura. We stone clean weight. If stags around Kildermorie had the same At Kildermorie (central Ross-shire), we shot hinds up to 12 shot far more hinds at Kildermorie than here. The average than Forest. Deer cannot increase as they would if no sheep deer very well. The heather in Tarbert is very freely burnt, considerate the shepherds are and we know they treat the this year weighed 1 1 stone ; he was fat and excellent. We shoot weight of hinds shot in Jura is about 9 stone, say 8 stone 12 Ib. spring feeding. I am unable to state the average weight of Ross- stags are very hairy and also light in colour, from living so much from disturbance must tell against deer, no matter how The sea blasts wither up Jura herbage in early winter ; on the We will therefore take the fertility of 100 hinds, one year old and shire hinds, and without that information we can make no com- there were stags at Kildermorie over 20 stone in weight. 5,000, or i sheep to 5 acres. A healthy farm. Healthier ground