29 NOVEMBER 1930, Page 16

Mr. Clyne who has done this beneficent work owes much

to the super-excellence of the Caithness workmen, but more to his own skill and zest. It is interesting to know that the grass land has been brought near perfect by the free use of wild white clover seed. How many pastures in England are poor and starved and quite incapable of feeding stock properly, much less of fattening stock, because neither tenant nor landowner has faced the expenditure of money on good grass and clover mixtures ! Mr. Clyne has done more than reclaim barren land to fertility : he has much improved the stock of Caithness Clydesdales. He may be compared, both in antecedents and interests, with Mr. Cridlan whose most perfect farm at Maisemore is inhabited by some of the finest Aberdeen-Angus cattle in the world.

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