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evidence could be produced that a remnant of this 

 Drumlanrig herd survived to the beginning of the 

 century, and that the tradition of their removal 

 relates to that time, the matter would assume a 

 different complexion. As it is, I must say there is 

 not the slightest indication of Cadzow having been 

 restocked from Drumlanrig. 



So far as is known, there were extant at the begin- 

 ning: of this century onlv two herds of white cattle 

 with markings similar to the Hamilton ones. One 

 of these was the herd that had been formed at 

 Ardrossan in 1750 by the Earl of Eglinton, which 

 at the beginning of this century had dwindled to a 

 few animals, and was in 1820 finally dispersed. The 

 other was the Athole herd, which was sold in 1834. 

 The markings of both herds appear to have been 

 the same as those now at Cadzow — with one essen- 

 tial difference. The Athole herd was horned, the 

 Ardrossan one humble. Now as Burns in 1809 says 

 the bulls at Cadzow were hornless, what I suggest 

 — as a mere presumption — is that the Cadzow herd 

 may have been reintroduced from the Ardrossan 

 one, which, so far as we know, may itself have been 

 originally constituted from Cadzow cattle. 



That the cattle about 1760 were horned is clear, if 

 Wilson was not romancing when he writes of the 

 "armed head" of the bull. In 1809 the bulls were 

 humble, according to Burns, though the cows had 

 horns. Later, the whole herd became humble. Youatt 

 in his work on Cattle (published 1834), commences 

 his account of The Polled Cattle by stating that the 

 aboriginal cattle at Chillingham were middle horns, 

 while those at Chatelherault were polled. I am 

 assured by one who knew the cattle well about forty 

 years ago that they were then all humble. It would 

 appear that the influence of the hornless bulls of 

 1809, aided perhaps by selection, had brought about 

 this change. In the Report of the Committee appointed 

 by the British Association on Existing Herds of Wild 

 White Cattle, read at Manchester, 1887, it is stated 



