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smaller breed, " black or dark brown, and with a 

 rough strong coat." James Trotter, writing on West 

 Lothian (1811), states that some proprietors had 

 tried the Leicester breed of cattle and the best 

 Annandale, " which last seems to be near the same 

 as the best Galloway." The Highland breed had been 

 found the best for beef, and Highland bulls had been 

 used for crossing. The Fife breed was the favourite 

 for the dairy. George Robertson, farmer, Granton 

 (1793), records, "There is no breed peculiar to the 

 county, the kind consisting of almost every kind in 

 Britain." Mr Wight, however (1778), had noted that 

 the Duke of Buccleuch and Lord Adam Gordon had 

 been doing well with Holderness crosses. 



In his Agricultural Report on Forfarshire (1813), 

 the Rev. James Headrick, minister of Dunnichen, 

 says of the cattle in the county, " A great proportion 

 of the stock are humlies (polls). A few individuals 

 have the Shorthorned Teeswater breed." On Kinross 

 and Clackmannan (1814) the Rev. Patrick Graham 

 writes, " There is no breed of cattle peculiar to the 

 counties." The smaller crosses were with the High- 

 land, and the larger with the Fife breed. The 

 Rev. James Robertson, D.D., the virile minister of 

 Callander, is frank, if slightly ambiguous, in his Agri- 

 cultural Report on Perthshire (1813). " Cows in 

 general are of a bad breed," inferior to the North 

 Argyll. The Angus and Fife breeds prevailed about 

 Perth and Bridge of Earn. There were some good 

 Galloways at Dunira and Lawers, and General Graham 

 of Balgowan had some Devons. The Earl of Mans- 



