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in war-time but his enterprise and energy were 

 rewarded in due time. 



Mr Kirk's first selections of Shorthorns in 1910 

 were at Little Haddo sale, Aberdeenshire. There 

 he took out of the ring Butterfly 67th by Royal 

 Prince (93,268), and the red Charlotte Corday 

 yearling, Merry Maid 5th, by the same sire. Pass- 

 ing on to Loanhead, he bought Duchess 29th, a 

 roan yearling by the Saphock-bred Lancelot (99,338). 

 He added no animal of special consequence until 

 1912, when at Mr Salvin's Burnhall sale he acquired 

 Tulip 2nd, a showy roan yearling of the old Bal- 

 lechin Carnation family and by the prize -winning 

 Burnhall Marquis (104,935). This heifer has proved 

 a very good breeder. Two years ago a heifer calf out 

 of her was exported at 300 gs. to the La Concordia 

 Estancia. Attending the Mertoun dispersion sale, 

 Mr Kirk took two cows the six-year-old red Wave 

 ofTweedside by Bed Ensign (93,035), and the four- 

 year - old roan Madeline Maid, a member of the 

 Towneley Butterfly family by Lord Remenham 

 (92,340). A handsome daughter of the older cow 

 is the roan Wave of Tyneside by Findon Rosebank 

 (108,620). The younger cow has had twins twice. 

 Somerset Waterloo, a roan by Diamond Fancy 

 (94,875), was a selection at the Congalton sale. In 



1915 the Abbey Mains breeder took a beautiful 

 Broadhooks yearling from Mr Gordon Oswald's lot. 

 Sired by Boquhan Standard Bearer (.114,409), this 

 female produced the Perth third-prize bull at the 



1916 show, the red Abbey Mains Dictator (134,494), 



