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grandam by Dauntless 4th (62,369), he was a 

 striking success. He was sire of Auchnacree Mogul, 

 the Perth first-prize bull in the younger class, 1912, 

 and his stock were always popular. Nigel of Cluny 

 (116,747), a very thick-set, short-legged roan, acquired 

 at the Perth sale of 1913 for 220 gs., was used with 

 great effect for four years, and then sold to Mr W. 

 Scott Clyne, Wick. He was by Edgar 2nd of Cluny 

 (91,611) out of Cluny Flora 103rd by Mr James 

 Durno's Diamond Fashion (94,877). He was sire of 

 Auchnacree Laird 2nd, and of Auchnacree Moth 15th, 

 the latter being the highest-priced heifer calf at the 

 Aberdeen October sale of 1915. The Arngask-bred 

 Ramsden Rufus, a red of choice quality, was bought 

 in 1917, but he was exported after a comparatively 

 short trial. The present stock bull is the home-bred 

 Auchnacree Rajah, a blocky-bodied roan by Nigel of 

 Cluny out of Auchnacree Moth, the dam of Auch- 

 nacree Mogul. Mr Grant's herd is a most interesting 

 one. It demonstrates what the Scotch Shorthorn can 

 do even when placed near the heather. 



BALCARRES. 



Shorthorns have been bred by the Earl of Craw- 

 ford and Balcarres at his home farm near Colinsburgh 

 since 1904. The late Mr George R. Fortune, then 

 estate agent, began by taking out at the Legars sale 

 the roan cow Sunset and her heifer calf Sunbeam. 

 Thereafter he made purchases of a Lady Dorothy 

 and a Kirklevington from Rosehaugh, Dairsie Mains- 



