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by purchase from Mr. Whitehead. The latter 

 had obtained the blood from Barclay of Ury. 

 It is one of several valuable Scottish sorts trac- 

 ing in the maternal line to Mary Anne, by 

 Sillery. The Bessies are now well known in 

 connection with the champion show bull Sign 

 of Riches (60324), sold in 1898 for export to 

 South America and called by many good judges 

 the best Short-horn bull in Great Britain at the 

 time of his exportation. He was a bull of ex- 

 traordinary depth and wealth of flesh that 

 overcame all opposition not only at the High- 

 land show but at the Koyal Dublin. He was 

 sold at auction in Buenos Aires for 650, and 

 one of his sons (Farrier) was recently sold in 

 Argentine by the Messrs. Nelson for 1,300. 



The Claras. Mr. Marr, in common with 

 nearly all of the other Aberdeenshire breeders, 

 was indebted very largely to the Ury blood of 

 Capt. Barclay for his foundation stock. In ad- 

 dition to the Ury tribes already mentioned he 

 obtained in 1860 from Mr. Shepherd of Shethin 

 the cow Clara 10th, descended from Clara 2d, 

 by The Pacha, bred by Barclay. The Claras 

 are recognized in the North of Scotland as one 

 of the soundest of the old local sorts, and in 

 1876 Clara 28th of this line, sired by Gold Dig- 

 ger (24044), was a prominent prize-winner. 

 She possessed great scale and rare beauty of 

 conformation. Several specimens of this fam- 



