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cows and heifers, among which we spent a very plea- 

 sant hour, and ended with Mimi, the dam of Viceroy, 

 who was not on the scale of some of the others, but 

 still very bloodlike in her looks. Fourteen to six- 

 teen bull-calves and a few heifers are sold annually, 

 and go chiefly into the neighbourhood or abroad. 



Mr. Rannie of Mill of Boyndie, about a mile 

 from Banff, is also a bull breeder, but only keeps 

 about ten cows and heifers. They are descended 

 principally from Red Rosebud, bred by Mr. Grant 

 Duff, and in lineal descent from Holkar, Young 

 Alice, grand-daughter of Alice of Ury, and bought 

 from Mr. Morison of Mountcoffer, and Maid of 

 Judah, one of the heifers at the Longmore annual 

 sale of '54<. He has principally used Omar Pasha, 

 grandson of Jemmy (11611) from a VanDunck cow, 

 and Prince Imperial, a combination of Mr. Long- 

 more's Inheritor and Earl of Aberdeen blood. It is, 

 however, upon his Leicesters that he has taken a more 

 decided stand, and his farm, of which 130 acres out 

 of 581 are grass, is remarkably well suited for them. 

 There are about 200 pure Leicester ewes, and the 

 remainder half-breds. The Leicester flock was com- 

 menced nearly fifteen years since by Mr. Rannie 

 and his late uncle, from the late Duke of Rich- 

 mond's, Mr. Morison's of Bognie, and other flocks. 

 Wiley and Sanday tups were used at first, but the 

 size gradually fell off, and the big and hardy bor- 

 derers from Chrisp and Cockburn were called 

 in to the rescue. The third prize for ewes fell to 



