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his best somewhat slowly. As a two-year-old in his 

 breeder's possession, he was placed second at the 

 county show to Sir John Gilmour's Gem of Pennan. 



During the eighties, and in the early years of this 

 century, Mr James Carnegie of Aytounhill showed 

 some beautiful cattle. His best were of Blebo foun- 

 dation. His Rose or Rock Cistus family was from 

 Rock Rose, and his Strawberries were from Romping 

 Girl. Mr Thomas Lawson of Carriston was also a 

 considerable exhibitor at the county shows for a fairly 

 long term. His leading family was the Orange Blossom 

 with the Bates cross in it. At Balbirnie Mr Balfour 

 kept a herd of about twenty cows during the late 

 sixties, and on throughout the seventies and eighties. 

 He won first in the two-year-old bull class at Perth 

 Highland in 1871 with Keir Butterfly 7th (31,457). 

 The last stock bull used was from Dalkeith Park, 

 and he cost 100 gs. During the last twenty years 

 a few well-bred Shorthorns have been kept by the 

 Messrs Meiklem, the well-known Clydesdale breeders. 

 Before he took up the agency for Balcarres, the late 

 Mr George R. Fortune had a small herd of fine breed- 

 ing at Pilmuir. He had a few Clippers of Newton 

 descent. 



On the grassy haughs of Alloa, by the links of 

 the Forth, Mr Andrew Mitchell had long extended 

 recreative hours among his Shorthorns. As a young 

 man in the thirties of last century he would fain 

 have set out as a breeder of the red-white-and-roan, 

 but business demands were then too strong. In 1855 



he visited Carlisle Royal Show, where he formed a 



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