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continuous rains and a very bad outlook for harvest. 

 For 54 head the average was 241, 14s. 3d. When 

 the Dunmore Shorthorns were at their best, some 

 unprejudiced and capable men preferred the Red 

 Roses to the Duchesses and Oxfords. The Roses 

 were not only singularly beautiful, they were the 

 more compact and thriftier looking cattle. It was 

 supposed that the owner sympathised with the 

 neutral judges. Certain friends relieved him by 

 maintaining that Dunmore had two herds. Lord 

 Dunmore was a handsomely - built, attractive man. 

 He had bright parts in general conversation, and 

 wonderful vivacity and charm when dealing with 

 stock-breeding and sporting matters. As an all- 

 round judge he was one of the best, but as an 

 evolver he was apt to be over-speculative. In his 

 early manhood he had the misfortune to get his 

 right eye destroyed by a ricochetting pellet when 

 he was out with a shooting company at Blair- Atholl. 

 As a young man he spent many a happy day on 

 his Hebridean property of Harris, whose people and 

 language he understood and loved. 



A remarkable man attracted attention beyond 

 Central Scotland in the early twenties of last cen- 

 tury. That was Mr John Moubray of The Moor 

 and Cambus, a highly - skilled and advanced land 

 improver, and a front-rank breeder and exhibitor of 

 Shorthorns, pure and cross - bred cattle, and other 

 stock. In 1826 he won the Highland Society 20 

 plate for having executed at his own expense on 

 Cambus the " greatest extent of wedge-drains in clay 



