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Rh [consume], and you would be glad of our leavings at Gundabook if we could send hem. But that's impossible, though we can send you the flour, for Allan has had a braw crop this year off the old bit. We're feeding the sheep off the stubble," said Mrs. Lindsay.

"I don't think it pays mixing up wheat with sheep," said McCallum. "I never saw it done in the North, and it has never been attempted at Mr. Hammond's station neither. It's no the way of doing that has been followed by the men that has made their fortunes in his colony."

"Weel, it may no answer for them that's got all their labour to hire," said Mrs. Lindsay, "but Allan is a famous hand at the plough, and Jamie is coming on to be serviceable too, and it's a great saving to hae nae flour to buy, but rather wheat to sell; and then there's green wheat for the ewes and the young lambs, and hay for the beasts in the summer."

"What would they say in Scotland to feeding lambs with young wheat, or cutting down a crop of growing corn for hay?" said McCallum.

"Every land has its ain lauch," said Mrs. Lindsay; "we wouldna maybe cut down corn for hay if we could grow as much rye-grass and clover, or have such crops of turnips for feeding, as they have in the old country. But it's