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Orange were at that time being offered, some 

 advantageous purchases were made from 

 Messrs. Duthie and Marr. From the former 

 he got the Field Marshal heifers Viola 5th, Fra- 

 grance, Lady Dorothy 2d and Bashful 2d,* be- 

 sides the young bull Lord Lancaster by same 

 sire. 



Cupbearer bought. The yearling bull Cup- 

 bearer (52692) had just been sold by Mr. Duthie 

 to an Ontario breeder and sent to Liverpool for 

 shipment, but on account of the Canadian quar- 

 antine proclamation he had to be returned to 

 Collynie, whereupon Mr. Miller secured him for 

 Mr. Adams. He had been shown during the 

 summer of 1886 as a yearling, winning first prize 

 in a good class of two-year-olds at the Royal 

 Northern and had the reserve number next to 

 Field Marshal. He was a roan sired by Rob 

 Roy (45484) out of the prize cow Countess 4th, 

 descending from Mr. Cruickshank's Fragrance 

 by Matadore, and became the champion show 

 bull of America. From Mr. Marr was obtained 

 Missie 99th, Sweet Brier 7th, Flora 89th and a 

 young bull by William of Orange. A promis- 

 ing bull calf, Prince Charlie, bred by P. R. Smith 

 of Aberdeenshire, and one or two others from 

 local breeders came with the first importation. 



* Bashful 2d of the Miss Bamsden tribe was what American breeders 

 term a genuine "double-decker" a beefy, broad-backed cow with a large, 

 shapely udder. She was a heavy milker and was one of the cows chosen 

 in 1893 to represent the breed in the Columbian Dairy Test. 



