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of the Tajmouth cattle. Mr. Malcolm, of Poltallocli, was also 

 & purchaser at the Breadalbane sale of 1863, and the Athole 

 and the Poltalloch herds, and that of the late Mr. Eobert 

 Peter, of Aberfeldy, were very representative of the Breadal- 

 bane stock. The sale of this stock attracted much attention at 

 the time, and the prices realised were very unusual for Highland 

 cattle. The late Duke of Athole bought the celebrated red bull 

 Donull Euadh at 1S51. He was sold some years afterwards to 

 the late Hon. Lady Menzies, Eannoch Lodge. The late Duke 

 of Hamilton bought a fine three-year-old dun heifer at 126Z., 

 which he afterwards sold to the late Duke of Athole, and 

 which, as the property of the present Duke of Athole, stood 

 the first prize cow at the Highland Society show at Inverness 

 in 1865. A dun bull of the same line, belonging to the Duke 

 of Athole, won the first prize as a three-year-old at the 

 Centenary show in Edinburgh in 1884, and the first prize in 

 the aged class in 1885 at the Highland Society's show at 

 Aberdeen. The great feature in the Breadalbane herd was 

 great weight combined with fineness of quality, and the repre- 

 sentatives of that herd still show those characteristics in a 

 marked degree. The present Marquis of Breadalbane has again 

 established at Taymouth a very good fold, chiefly from the 

 best Perthshire herds, and they always carry high honours 

 at the national shows. The folds of Mr. John Stewart, 

 Bochastle, Callander, and of Lord Kinnaird, at Eossie Priory, 

 represent some of the best strains of Perthshire blood, and are 

 much thought of. 



It may here be mentioned that in 1882 Mr Eobert Campbell, 

 of Merchiston, Manitoba — a Glenlyon man, and for long a 

 valued agent of the Hudson Bay Company — imported to 

 Manitoba a number of Highland cattle selected from the Athole, 

 Bochastle, and other good folds; and he reports that they 

 have suited uncommonly well. They are entered now in the 

 Highland Herd Book. 



The management of Highland cattle varies considerably in 

 different districts, and according to the size of the herd. In the 

 larger and more reputed folds the cattle are at large summer 

 and winter, the breeding cows only being placed in separate 

 pens or sheds at calving time, which is usually from January to 



