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tures leading up to where the purple heather grows, 

 the glossy- coated cattle, Sir GEORGE'S brother 

 CAMPBELL in his Highland kilts, MACKENZIE of Dai- 

 more, a fellow-guest to argue with, and the baronet 

 himself for guide ! 



This was when the Ballindalloch Ericas were 

 to be seen in all the glory of their flesh, finish and 

 rotundity neat, thick, low, wide and as like as peas 

 in the same pod. Sir GEORGE had attained the very 

 top of the tree as the foremost breeder of Aber- 

 deen-Angus of modern days, and frankly acknowl- 

 edged that the foundation of his success was laid 

 by the purchase and free use of the bull Trojan, 

 bought from McCoMBiE in 1865. Thus are the 

 links forged in the chains of all these annals of 

 the breed. The whole splendid story of how the 

 great work of one generation has been carried for- 

 ward by the next, and the fruit of it all preserved 

 and handed down for the benefit of the farming 

 world, should be held up before the present gener- 

 ation at every opportunity and at any reasonable 

 cost. 



Has the SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB anything yet 

 to do? Oh! ye who know not the paths of glory 

 in the animal breeding realm, ye who are not con- 

 scious of the miracles that have been worked in 



