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lived) in the herd within twelve months, and two sets 

 came out of this byre. Mistletoe, a very deep-fleshed, 

 robust-looking cow by Welcome Guest from a Grand 

 Turk dam, has not followed this example, and unfor- 

 tunately she always breeds bulls. Her Stonehenge, 

 who has since been sold to Sir George Dunbar, 

 was on parade in front of her box along with Thane of 

 Fife, both of them with first honours from the United 

 Counties ; and her youngest hope, lied Friar, and 

 Lord Eagle, out of White Eagle, were surveying them. 

 Facing the white Cherry by M f Turk, a compact, 

 good-looking cow, and side-by-side with the fine-boned 

 Pauline by Highthorn, was the neat, wide-spread form 

 of Blue Belle, safe in calf to Sir Samuel. She and 

 Eagle's Plume were the first that the Messrs. Mitchell 

 ever sent to the Royal, and they returned with a se- 

 cond and a commended ticket, and drew up into the 

 first and second places at Stirling. Breeders have had 

 their doubts as to which is the best, but generally 

 agree that, if the white has more length, she has not 

 quite the width and sweetness of the roan. Let us 

 trust that it will, be long before they share the 

 fate of old Nervosa Gynne, whose Arthur Gynne 

 was used both here and at Keir, as she was busy in 

 the darkest and farthest corner of the yard, laying 

 on beef for the flesher. 



Clackmannanshire is a very Rutland among coun- 

 ties, as you see pretty nearly the whole of it in 

 a ten-mile ride along the Carse and the Forth side 

 to Keavil. The capital is not impressive. There is 



