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fame as perhaps the best family in the Linwood 

 herd of Col. W. A. Harris. Some of the Miss 

 Ramsdens and Nonpareils were also imported 

 into the West and proved good breeders as 

 well as successful show animals. 



Marr of Uppermill. The late William S. 

 Marr, one of the most eminent of all the Aber- ' 

 deen shire breeders of Short-horns, entered 

 upon the farm of Uppermill in 1833. It is sit- 

 uated in the same district as Sittyton, Shethin, 

 Colly nie and other noted nurseries of North 

 Country stock. Mr. Marr was twenty-two years 

 of age at the time he took the lease of Upper- 

 mill, which was at that time in a very rough 

 state. Much of the kind had to be reclaimed 

 at great expense, and it was not until about 

 1851 that he was able to turn his attention to 

 Short-horns. His first purchases were made in 

 the North of England, but with .one notable 

 exception the original investment proved alto- 

 gether unsatisfactory; the cattle doing no good 

 under the conditions to which they were sub- 

 jected in their new home. 



The Maudes. The ancestress of this Upper- 

 mill tribe was the fine cow Maude that consti- 

 tuted the exception just mentioned. She be- 

 longed to a family that had been bred by Mr. 

 Thomas Chrisp of Northumberland, who had 

 obtained the sort from the herd of Mr. Jopling. 



