burning considerable tracts of heather greatly checks parasitic 00 mischief, but there is a limit to this remedy, because there is to success in this Forest. Far more ground requires burning OO and perhaps to changes of management which would greatly 00 oo We have a good deal of ground grassy flats, with heather inter- oo OO mixed that ought to be burnt in rotation once in three years. oo oo oo were told at first that the ground had been too much burnt OO 00 00 OO 00 VO here than in Ross-shire. We did not find this out at first, and we OO oo oo oo Good judgment in burning, and in abstaining from it, is essential 00 hardly any winter feeding for the first winter on burnt ground. reduce the death rate, both of sheep and deer. It seems that