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that "Joseph Dunbar, a labourer who has been in 

 the ducal service for about 50 years, says that 45 

 years ago (say 1842) the cattle were all hornless, and 

 the present Duke's grandfather caused all shewing 

 the least appearance of being horned to be killed." 

 The latter statement may or may not be correct ; 

 but it is a fact that about that time they were all 

 hornless. A specimen presented to the Edinburgh 

 Museum in 1842 had horns ; but it had probably 

 been killed some years before. Dr. John Alexander 

 Smith, writing about 1847, says that "they are all 

 without horns or polled, and have been so for some 

 time past." At a later date some of the cattle again 

 became horned, and now all of them are so. This 

 may be due to a Highland bull having been added 

 to the herd, as Sir J. Powlett Orde of Kilmory was 

 told, he says, that Mr. Lachlan Macneill had been 

 employed to get a West Highland bull for the 

 Cadzow herd ; and he had heard, besides, many years 

 ago, "that a Highland bull having got accidentally 

 into the park, some horned calves were produced, 

 and that by subsequent selection the herd had got 

 horns generally." 



In 1866 the herd came very near an abrupt con- 

 clusion. Rinderpest broke out among them, and the 

 law of the land as to slaughter was imperative. 

 A few young animals were hidden away in the 

 deep gorge of the Avon, and from the survivors — 

 some eight in all, and only one of these a bull — the 

 present herd is descended. 



As it was recently considered desirable that some 

 new blood should be infused into the herd, a bull 

 from Kilmory was added in 1884. I saw this bull, 

 and though he had the same colour and markings 

 as the cattle, there was something about him strik- 

 ingly different. He seemed to be shorter in leg and 

 heavier, but what struck me most was the absence 

 of that restless manner and constant watchfulness 

 so characteristic of the Cadzow herd. The experi- 

 ment was not a success, as the calves born were off 



