put out for the first time. It is necessary to have a person in the field with them and to tether them with a rope, as their heads are very light through confinement and are in consequence apt to hurt themselves in running round.

Saturday 17 May 1844. Yesterday & today very rainy. Finished ploughing the park for turnips beside the Clachan, & commenced ploughing the park on the head of the hill. All the weeds were burnt on Thursday. Mem: Weeds cannot be too carefully picked off, and all hands should be employed for a day or two in dry weather after the Brackets arrow has been going in collecting. Fallowing the land is excellent in destroying weeds, but great care must be taken in the operations on it - see Fallow.