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in his district, as he had character, individuality, and 

 resourcefulness. His principal strains at the outset 

 were the Milkmaids and Beautys, the latter being 

 from Argaty. One of the late Mr Buchanan's most 

 notable cows, Hose of Tralee, will be remembered 

 by old Highland Society Show attenders. She was 

 afterwards sold to Mr Donald Maclennan, that king 

 among exporters, and in after years he often stated 

 that he had never sent a finer cow to the Argentine. 



Mr Buchanan owned some very fine bulls. From 

 Sir Wm. Stirling-Maxwell he bought a calf which 

 became famous. That was By well (33,261), which 

 won at the Highland as a yearling for White- 

 house. He had also the distinguished winners Star 

 of Braithwaite (48,785), bred by Mr Talbot-Crosbie, 

 and Heatherbred Lad (13,146), bred by Mr T. Lam- 

 bert, Elrington Hall. " I will have the best if I can," 

 was Mr Buchanan's guiding text in selection of bulls. 

 As a matter of course he won many prizes at the 

 county shows. One of the large championship cups 

 for two bulls he won outright, and he also won, 

 although not outright, every cup presented for Short- 

 horns at Stirling Show. During the last ten or twelve 

 years only a few Strowan Cowslips and Uppermill 

 Rachels had been kept at Whitehouse, and for 

 about twenty years the herd had been getting the 

 use of the Polmaise stock bulls. Mr Buchanan sold 

 off his cattle in the autumn of 1919, and he gave 

 up farming at the November term. 



Mr John Chrystal, Dasherhead, Gargunnock, began 

 to breed Shorthorns about the same time as the late 



