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

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