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CHAPTEE IX. 



James Beattie, Newbie, and nephew Founding of herd Aylesby Ws 

 and Blooming Heathers His sales Visitors at Newbie Thomas 

 Marshall Robertson of Ladykirk His great work Lord Polwarth 

 His appearance Remarkable successes Disappointing sale. 



FOR well on to thirty years the Newbie House 

 herd, owned by the highly characteristic Scot, Mr 

 James Beattie, the lessee of the Solway fishings near 

 Annan, had a national reputation. Mr Beattie, who 

 became tenant of Newbie in 1845, was at first a 

 Galloway breeder, and a keen breeder and feeder 

 of two or three varieties of sheep. In his mid-course 

 he added pure-bred pigs to his collection, and in his 

 own humorous terms- he thus made the place a plague 

 to the district. At the Paris International Show of 

 1856 he won the championship with the famous 

 Galloway bull Mosstrooper, then eleven years old. 

 Still, he considered the Galloways too slow. His 

 old friend, Mr R. Syme of Redkirk, Gretna, had bred 

 Shorthorns successfully away back beyond the middle 

 of the century, and his nearest neighbour, Mr Thomas 

 Marshall, Howes Farm, followed, and came into some 

 fame. Why should the red-white-and-roan not have 

 a trial at Newbie ? Mr Beattie asked. 



