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roan, yearling, by Knight of Knowlmere 2nd (31,542), 

 out of Lady Blithe, Rev. Thos. Staniforth, 250 gs. Lord 

 Polwarth also took Wave Surf, a yearling, daughter 

 of Wave Foam, at 115 gs. Demand for bulls was very 

 slow. For 61 head the average was 57, 17s. 9d. 

 By themselves, 47 cows and heifers averaged 

 65, 10s. lid. A small herd was afterwards kept, 

 and the dispersion came off on 4th April 1895, with 

 an average of 33, 14s. Mr Beattie, who was a man 

 of great physical and mental vigour, died on 2nd May 

 of that season in his eighty-eighth year. His clever 

 son, Mr David Beattie, who succeeded to the Newbie 

 tenancy, died in December 1900. 



During the seventies especially, Newbie was a hos- 

 pitable centre for Shorthorn enthusiasts. Mr Thomas 

 Easton, then at Storrs Hall, and Mr John Thornton, 

 arrived together at times. The burly Cumbrian, Mr 

 John Hope, afterwards so well known at Bow Park, 

 Canada, was for years a frequent visitor, and Mr 

 Andrew Mitchell, the strong man of Alloa, was an 

 occasional guest. Tom Easton, the son of a Langholm 

 parochial schoolmaster, was described by one who 

 knew him in those days as a " bright funny man, 

 with a mass of black curly hair and a turn for a 

 half-comic song." His keen grey eyes had not then 

 the passing films of the dreamy, which they assumed 

 in his old age, when many a vision had vanished. 

 With Shorthorns as text, Thornton and Easton were 

 probably the finest discussionists in Britain. 



Mr Thomas Marshall, to whom passing references 

 have been made, bred Shorthorns for about thirty 



