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(115,098). The Abbey Mains breeder secured an 

 exceptionally well-bred bull, and a real Cruickshank, 

 at the Perth sale of 1918. That was the roan Cluny 

 Augustus 2nd by President of the Mint (109,670), 

 out of the Royal Northern first-prize winner Cluny 

 Augusta 4th by Edgar 2nd of Cluny (91,611). 

 Cluny Augustus 2nd was full brother to Lady Cath- 

 cart's first-prize winner of 1917, and their mother was 

 grandmother of Cluny Sir Augustus, the first -prize 

 winner in the January class of 1918, for which Mr 

 Maconochie paid 2000 gs. Mr Kirk kept his Cluny 

 bull only one season. He won with him at Perth 

 in two-year-olds, and sold him for 530 gs. At the 

 Perth sale of last year he acquired at 400 gs. the 

 blocky-framed dark -red roan Aldie Mac, an almost 

 full brother to Captain Macgillivray's reserve champion 

 Aldie Armistice. " Mac " might have been kept for 

 another season at least ; as a son of Millhills Rothes 

 King (138,020) he had the backing of a great sire, 

 but an exporting offer was too tempting, and so he 

 passed over the water. On the outlook for a first- 

 class white bull, the owner of Abbey Mains secured 

 last spring a short - legged beauty at 1800 gs. in 

 Mr Ralph S. M* William's January class-second prize- 

 winner Stoneytoun Challenger by Redgorton Earl 

 (244,805), and of old Shethin Mysie descent on the 

 side of his dam. 



ARDARGIE. 



As Ardargie Mains, now farmed by the proprietor, 

 Mr John J. Calder, and Nether Ardargie, tenanted 



