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is about two miles from Drymen Station on. 

 this line. His Grace once had nothing but Ayr- 

 shires, and it was not until 1857 that he ever pur- 

 chased a shorthorn. The sales at Neasdon and 

 Bushey tempted him with two roans, Primula and 

 Doraliso, but he had not much satisfaction in his 

 new pursuit till he bought New Year's Morn by 

 Baltic as a 60-guinea calf at Mr. Cator's sale. 

 The right chord was struck at last, and her very first 

 calf, May Morn by Victor Einanuel (15460), a bull 

 purchased from Lord Feversham, was head in the 

 Royal two-year-old class at Battersea. Five or six 

 years had swelled the prize-list to twenty-eight, and 

 the herd to thirty-one ; and the three Morns New 

 Year's, Rosy, and May along with Baroness Killer- 

 by and Flower Girl, were the only ones which were 

 not brought under Mr. WetherelFs hammer. Old 

 Flavia by Baron Warlaby contributed her 62 guineas 

 towards the B5-guinea average, and her grand- 

 daughter Lucilla by Baron Killerby followed Mr. 

 Young's nod to Keir. The herd had a narrow escape 

 from pleura, which began with a Bretonne in a byre ad- 

 joining the Ayrshires. Every one of them fell ill; 

 but the shorthorns, which were in another house, 

 with a dunghill between, and were then removed 

 for safety to the stables at the Castle, did not suffer 

 in the least, and added another to the mass of proofs 

 in favour of infection versus epidemic. 



The steading lies snugly -a few yards to the 

 right, as you drive up the avenue towards Bu- 



