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Andw. Ralston, Glarnis ; Sir Wm. Stirling-Maxwell, 

 who paid the top price of 45 gs. in cows for Butternut ; 

 Mr Wm. M'Ewen, Cambushinnie ; Mr John Granger, 

 Pitcur, who bought five heifers a couple of Maggies, 

 a Matadore, a Marchioness, and a Groat, the Mata- 

 dore being the highest priced at 30 gs. The red-and- 

 white Gwynne bull, Prince of Schleswig (35,158), 

 went at butcher's price. The older cows at the sale 

 were by Indispensable (16,295), Magenta (20,253), 

 Lord Strathearn (22,219), Strathallan (37,539), and 

 Duke of Glasgow (33,649). Most of the female animals 

 from three to five years old, and a large number of 

 heifers, were by the famous By well (33,261). 



Mr Dickson was succeeded in the tenancy of Cam- 

 bushinnie by the late Mr Wm. M'Ewen. At Mr 

 Dickson's sale Mr M'Ewen bought two cows and two 

 heifers. These were the white, Matilda (lot 4), by 

 Albert, a son of Lord Strathearn (22,219) ; Mayflower 

 (lot 32), also a white, by Bywell (33,261); the year- 

 ling Lady May (lot 57), a white, by Bywell ; and the 

 heifer calf Little May (lot 75), a roan, by Schleswig 

 (35,158), out of Mayflower. Those animals bred well, 

 and were all good milkers. Mr M'Ewen's principal 

 selections afterwards were a Butterfly cow and heifer 

 calf from Mr Balfour of Balbirnie, and the bull Flower- 

 man, a white bred at Keir, and by the famous 

 Fandango (33,879). Flowerman led in his class at 

 the Stirling Show of 1883, and stood reserve to Mr 

 Moubray's cup-winner, Mr M'Ewen died in 1883, 

 and his son, the late Mr John M'Ewen, followed in 

 the tenancy. To his father's Cambushinnie stock Mr 



