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Some promising young stock by Mr A. J. Marshall's 

 Broadhooks Diamond (124,530), now in Mr Wm. 

 McAllister's herd, and Bridgebank Orangeman, were 

 to be seen at Balmanno in 1918-19. Orangeman was 

 a roan Orange Blossom by the Collynie White Knight 

 (128,848). 



BALMERINO. 



Balmerino, with its remains of a once magnificent 

 Cistercian abbey, its associations with a stirring 

 period in Scottish history, and its ties with an un- 

 fortunate seventeenth-century nobleman, has attrac- 

 tions for the student. The farm, which has an extent 

 of about 300 acres, is mainly on the volcanic rock 

 which has a considerable basis in North Fife. With 

 the exception of a small portion, the dip is towards 

 the north, with an outlook to the Firth of Tay and 

 Dundee. Some of the fields are fairly steep, but there 

 is " bone " in the soil. The lower-lying enclosures are 

 well sheltered by plantations and hedges. Mr James 

 Murray, the tenant, who had early training in 

 Aberdeen - Angus cattle, began to form a herd of 

 Shorthorns in the autumn of 1911. 



From Mr Stephen Mitchell he then acquired the 

 seven-year-old roan Lady Dorothy 39th by the 

 Collynie Golden Prospect (81,181). She produced a 

 roan heifer calf in December to Collynie Cupbearer 

 (105,069), and in 1913 she bred a red heifer calf to 

 the noted Proud Warrior (106,653). This red was 

 sold at Perth as a yearling, but the roan was retained 

 and she bred excellent females. In 1916 and 1919 



