236 FIELD AND FERN. 



His best stock on the male side are entirely due to 

 Watson of Keillor and Fullarton of Ardovie. The 

 dam of Angus came from Keillor, and did him 

 rare service. When she had not a whole tooth in 

 her head, and had missed a year, she presented him 

 with a calf in January ; and then she had milk fever, 

 and, after all, brought up four more, two of which. 

 Second Earl Spencer and Cupbearer, were first and 

 second-prize bulls at Berwick. Second Earl Spencer 

 was her own calf, and when he was killed, at four years 

 old, he weighed nearly 120 Dutch stone of 17ilbs. 



The herd numbers 80 to 90, and none are fatted 

 off except those bred on the spot, and generally at 2J to 

 3 years old. Yellow swedes and oatstraw are their 

 principal fare, and " good and grey" potatoes at the 

 beginning of the season, when the price of the crop 

 will warrant it. They are generally bred more for 

 use than sale, and Mr. Bowie firmly believes that he 

 " can keep four for three shorthorns." Occasionally 

 he has tried Galloway crosses, but it never seemed to 

 hit nicely, and the calves came coarse. He very 

 seldom brings out any cows or heifers, except at the 

 local shows. Of late, his great bulls have been his 

 Kelso winners, Jim Crow and Tom. " Jim," the two- 

 year-old winner of that day against Julius Caesar and 

 Commodore Trunnion, had a rare flank and quarter, 

 but not such a back as Tom, another grandson of 

 Hanton's, who made a very fair fight with Fox 

 Maule in those Springwood Park meadows. Tom 

 is a very lusty bull, and, as it was said of him at 



