In Scotland’s Capital
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istoric Spots were Shown and Many Interesting Things were Told—Entertained in Good Old Scotch Fashion. SETTER our most charming and perfectday at Sandringham, nightfall foundus on the way to London, which weleft late that evening for Edinburgh,Scotland se seA 'To and from Scotland and to and fromAY Sandringham we were struck by theapparent fertility of English farms. Sheep, hog andcattle-raising go side by side with gardening. The wonderwas how England can afford to use its rich lands forcattle, hog and sheep-growing when in New York State,with its hundreds of thousands of acres adapted espec-ially to sheep culture and worthless for anything else,sheep-raising has become a lost industry. Farm life inEngland seems ideal. All properties show thrift andintelligence of a high order both in cultivation andmanagement. A prominent English farmer, who rodewith us to Edinburgh, said that since war began muchvaluable land had been given over to stock raising,because of the scarcity of help it was impossible to workland for regular farm purposes.At Sandringham early in war, three hundred andseventy-five caretakers asked King George’s permissionto go into the fight. To this royalty assented and super-intendent of landscaping became captain of acompany se se Beg, pe
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