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came into it was " Duchess lOtli," from Gordon Castle, which 

 did not remain long in it. Mr Eay had the advantage of the 

 Inchbroom bulls until the herd there was dispersed. After that 

 he had " Baron Outhwaite" (36197), bred atXewton of Struthers 

 after Baron Killerby, and descended on the maternal side from 

 the Myrtles that came from Fashion by Emperor, and cows by 

 Cleveland (145), and Butterfly (104). The next stock bull was 

 '* Ptobin" (43908), son of Baron Outhwaite, and out of a Gordon 

 Castle Duchess by Baron Colling (25560). The present stock at 

 Sunbank is full of the Gordon Castle blood, and contains a 

 number of very superior cattle.* 



Garhity. — The Garbity herd of shorthorns, the property of Mr 

 James Watt, was founded in 1864, by the purchase of a cow^ 

 '' Tidy " at the Huntly Lodge sale. She was bred in England, 

 and was well advanced in years before Mr Watt obtained her. 

 The first addition was " Marchioness," purchased at the Inch- 

 broom dispersion sale, where she brought the highest price of 

 the cows, having w^on the second prize at the Highland Society's 

 show at Inverness when a two-year-old heifer. Mr Watt has 

 still some of her stock in the herd. To begin with, Mr Watt 

 got the service of the Gordon Castle bulls, which infused a deal 

 of excellent Booth blood into the very foundation of his herd. 

 He bought a cow and heifer from Mr Meade Waldo of Stone- 

 well Park, Kent, about five years ago, along with a couple of 

 bulls. He has these still in his herd, and all of them have done 

 fairly well. The bulls are still the stock bulls of the herd, and 

 the tw^o females have been breeding regularly. Strange to say^ 

 their calves have all been males excepting a female this year. 

 One of the bulls is a " Elower " bull, and the other of the 

 " Waterloo " tribe. A cow which Mr Watt obtained four years 

 ago from Mr Eisher, Pitlochry, proved a very valuable animal, 

 having fostered many fine calves. She was sired by the famous 

 Ptoyal Benedict, and is out of an Anette cow, and has had three 

 or four bull calves in succession. At present the herd comprises 

 15 cows, 6 two-year-old heifers, 15 calves (four of which are 

 bulls), and 2 bulls, or about 40 in all. Among the heifers is 

 "Dorothy," after Eitz-Harry and out of Molly, an Inchbroom 

 cow. Through her sire she has Booth blood in her veins, and is 

 a very perfect animal. She won the first prize as a yearling 

 at the Highland Society's show at Stirling, and at Elgin last 

 year (1881), and as a two-year-old at Elgin this year. Another 

 fine heifer is "Wild Eose," after Captain Cook, bred by Mr 

 Gumbleton of Glanatora, Co. Cork, Ireland, is also in Mr Watt's 

 possession. She was first at the Eoyal Dublin Society's show, 

 and first at Glasgow, Elgin, and Inverness this year (1882). 



* Owing to the death of the owner, this herd has been dispersed since the 

 above was written. 



