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CHAPTER VI. 



Christie, Dairsie Mains His noted cattle and sales G.O.T. and James 

 Bruce John Hill, Langside James Carnegie, Thomas Lawson 

 Meiklem Brothers, G. R. Fortune Andrew Mitchell A Booth herd 

 His sale His personality Duke of Montrose's herd Simon 

 Beattie and Rosedale William Alexander, Loanside. 



MR FRANK W. CHRISTIE, who has spent the greater 

 part of his very active and public- spirited life in 

 Fifeshire, had a widely -known herd when he was 

 tenant of the large farm of Dairsie Mains, near Cupar. 

 The foundations of the herd were laid in 1879 with 

 purchases from Polmaise and Coldstream, and animals 

 were bought in succeeding years from Collynie, Dunira, 

 Uppermill, Newton of Insch, Mill of Dumbreck, and 

 Kinellar. Stock bulls were mostly selected from the 

 Alloa and Mertoun herds. The best families were 

 the Orange Blossoms, Claras, and Gwynnes. The 

 Uppermill Clara cow, the 46th of her line, and by 

 Sittyton Scarlet (58,163) from a dam by Athabasca 

 (47,359), won many prizes in the county. Among 

 the earlier bulls used were the Blebo Lord Blithe 

 (53,129), Montgomery of Cluny (56,200), the Alloa 

 Hildebrand (57,462), and the Collynie Fortune Hunter 

 (62,616). The herd was almost sold off in 1894. 



