32 SHORTHORNS 



Hepburn, Bart., Messrs Cruickshank, Mr J. Maxtone 

 Graham, Mr Andrew Mitchell, Mr Turnbull, and Mr 

 Robert Geekie, but he did not trouble himself 

 regularly with registration. In Mr Drummond's 

 private herd - book the note occurs once or twice, 

 "Sold to Mr Todd." This was Mr Wm. Todd, 

 Mains of Gorthy, near Methven. Mr Wm. Drum- 

 mond Todd, son of Mr Wm. Todd, writes : " My 

 father bought a good Shorthorn bull every second 

 year as far back as I can remember. About 1882 

 he bought a few pure-bred heifers from Mr Donald 

 Campbell, Shearerston. When I succeeded him I 

 won many prizes at the local shows, but I sold the 

 cattle over twenty years ago, owing to want of 

 proper housing accommodation." 



Turning towards Strathmore, Mr Hugh Watson, 

 Keillor, kept a small herd of Shorthorns prior to 

 1840. In the forties he had very fair success at 

 the Highland Society's Shows, but he appears to 

 have sold off his horned cattle in 1847 or 1848. 

 Watson's portrait represents a man of great prac- 

 tical talents ; resolute, cautious, with keenly ac- 

 quisitive eyes, and hints of the secretive. The 

 short cheek - whiskers are brushed forward in Pal- 

 merstonian fashion, and the side hair is neatly set 

 up towards the bald dome. He and Captain Barclay 

 were " fell chief," according to the testimony of Mr 

 Robert Geekie, and that was surely a better way of 

 expressing it than to say that the two were uncom- 

 monly friendly. They were interested in the Perth 

 to Aberdeen mail-coach, as they supplied horses for 



