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old-bull honours at Edinburgh in '59, as the Druid 

 had done at Gftasgow in '57, and Cupbearer at Ber- 

 wick three years before that. Of the other pur- 

 chases, M'Combie's Empress, which was a calf at the 

 foot of Charlotte in Paris, has done well for her 60 gs. 7 

 and so have Emily by Old Jock, Walker's Princess, 

 (a great milker,) and Balwyllo's Queen, which was 

 second at 7i years, at Kelso, to Wemyss's Nancy, a: 

 Tillyfour cow of no great touch, but well made up, 

 and with youth on her side. The herd scarcely ever 

 competes, except at the Highland Society and Angus 

 Shows, and, fortunate as it has been with bulls and 

 heifers, it has never yet won a Highland Society 

 first with a cow. 



The steading, which cost under 4,000 and mea- 

 sures 270 feet by 132, is a very great feature, with 

 its platforms and beautiful slate ventilation, and, 

 above all, that grand sense of airiness and Australian 

 elbow room, which results from its cattle courts 

 being half open and half under cover. Several 

 cattle were put up to feed, and among them was 

 a red Angus with a white nose. Antiquity will 

 have its say, and some poll breeders maintain that 

 no statute of limitations prevents the blacks from 

 throwing yellow, red, and brindled calves at times. 

 Mr. M'Combie has had calves of this colour, but not 

 within the last seven years, when he sternly vanished 

 "every beast of colour" from his breeding farm. 

 Quadroona by Windsor from Queen (445), and quite 

 the young black belle of Kelso was by her side calf- 



