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now a highly -prized sire in the herd of Mr P. B. 

 M'Intyre, Findon Mains. An excellent addition 

 was made to the Abbey Mains herd in the same 

 year in the red Scotch Dorothy, a heifer calf bred 

 by Mr D. D. Williamson, Auldtown of Carnousie, 

 and the Saphock - bred Proud Barrister (117,100). 

 The Whittingehame sale gave Mr Kirk a fine 

 selective opportunity, and his fancy there swayed 

 to a pretty roan Princess Royal heifer calf by 

 Edgcote Sceptre (120,101), and breeding like two- 

 year-old red Nonpareil in calf to the noted show 

 bull Roving Boy (127,852). As a two-year-old the 

 Princess Royal produced a very fine heifer calf by 

 Mr G. B. Shields' Esmond's Heir, a Lancaster bull 

 exported in 1917. The Nonpareil started with the 

 red Abbey Mains Advance Guard, which was sold 

 at Perth for 220 gs. 



At Aberdeen a few weeks later, Mr Kirk added 

 from Billhead of Ellon a fine yearling in the roan 

 Lancaster Charm, by the noted Lothian Laird 

 (112,374), and a dark roan Champion of England 

 Butterfly heifer calf from Durno House and by 

 Nonpareil Star (121,793). The principal purchases 

 in 1917 were Ballechin Duchess, a roan heifer by the 

 great stock bull Royal Leader (103,727) ; a thick 

 short-legged red, Uppermill Bessie, from Mr Young, 

 Cadboll ; Hawthorn Bloom 21st, a prettily-moulded 

 roan heifer calf from Mr Ingram, Middleton of Troup, 

 and with Auchnacree Whyte (118,644) as sire; and 

 Clipper Gem, a grand roan calf from Hillhead, and 

 by Lothian Laird. Those were important additions. 



