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Mr Alexander Buchanan, but for twenty years he had 

 a larger herd than the Whitehouse one, and his cattle 

 were not excelled by any collection in Stirlingshire. 

 Over forty years ago Mr Chrystal removed to the 

 county of Durham. Emperor, a bull of his breeding, 

 appears in a good many well-known pedigrees. 



Shorthorns were bred by the Milne family in the 

 Scottish South-East since the early part of last century. 

 Mr Milne, Dry hope, exhibited a cow by Sultan, and 

 also a two-year-old heifer at the Border Agricultural 

 Society Spring Show of 1815 ; and his son, Mr Nicol 

 Milne, who followed him at Dryhope in the late 

 thirties, had a noted herd which was dispersed in 

 May 1879. Mr Nicol Milne, on setting out for 

 himself about 1836, bought a cow from Mr James 

 Chrisp, Doddington, Wooler. His leanings were 

 towards cattle with a dash of Bates blood in them, 

 but he was free from prejudices. Mr Milne rarely 

 attended a Shorthorn sale. He studied the catalogues, 

 and if he knew the breeders he made a short leet and 

 got Mr John Thornton, or some other trusty friend, 

 to select a bull for him. He sold his own young bulls 

 privately, for the most part to farmers in the counties 

 of Peebles and Selkirk, and the animals gave great 

 satisfaction. Among the sires used by him in later 

 years were Viscount Stanley (23,152), Oxford Cherry 

 (24,709), Grand Knight (26,302), and Freebooter 

 (19,789). Mr Milne died in 1878, and his cattle were 

 sold at the displenishing sale in May of the following 

 year. Mr John Muir, who then took up the tenancy, 

 bought several of the best female animals and kept 



