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his Caithness giminers. He has been secretary of the 

 Morayshire Farmers' Club (which not long since 

 reached its grand climacteric) for upwards of thir- 

 teen years, and has fought and won many a hard 

 shorthorn battle on its Green. Mr. Hunter, of Dip- 

 pie, who holds the next farm, has a large flock of 

 half-bred sheep, and took a prize with the best cross- 

 bred heifer at Birmingham in 1863. Westertown 

 is also not more than a mile from Orbliston, and its 

 tenant, Mr. George Brown, has been well up in the 

 polled classes at several Highland Society's shows. 

 He not only bred "Mulben's" Prince of Wales, but 

 picked Windsor (221) for J40 as a calf at Tillyfour, 

 and sold him for 18 to Lord Southesk, who never 

 repented of his bargain. Mr. Geddes's shorthorn pro- 

 bation spreads over more than a quarter of a century. 

 His first bull was from Chrisp of Doddington, and 

 since then a bull of Colonel Cradock's blood, and others 

 from Nicol Milne, Douglas, Hunt of Thornington, 

 Turnbull of Bowhill, Grant Duff, Lovemore of Eet- 

 tie, Hay of Shethin, the Cruickshanks, and Stirling of 

 Keir have found their way into his herd-book. 

 Douglas's Duke of Leinster, TurnbulPs Hassan 

 (12995), and Stirling's Hiawatha (14705) left some 

 sterling traces behind them, the latter more espe- 

 cially in his cross-bred stock, one of which bore its 

 own testimony in the boxes. Young Hiawatha of 

 his own breeding, and British King (19352) by 

 Lord Raglan (13244), and both of them winners 

 in the district, were there ; and when we had 



