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ally poor land at Oliver-burn the stock now carried is 

 double the number grazed and wintered before Mr Hill 

 bought the farm about fifteen years ago. The grazing 

 improvement is very largely due to the use of deep- 

 rooting grasses and wild white clover. An accom- 

 plished practical botanist, the proprietor set himself at 

 an early stage to the study of the Elliot mixture, and 

 from that he has taken excellent hints for his own 

 conditions. 



A choice herd of Aberdeen-Angus cattle was carried 

 on at Balthayock for a good many years, but the 

 blackskins were sold off in 1911. In 1908 a few 

 Shorthorns were acquired. These were the yearling 

 bull Ivo of Cluny, a thick-set roan of the Dainty 

 family by the Collynie Lord Rector (83,957) out of 

 Daisy 2nd by Royal Pride (71,489) ; Lady Waterloo G. 

 from Mr Murray, Kilcoy, and by Kilblean Stamp 

 (88,978) ; Lady Ramsden, a beautiful roan yearling, 

 second - prize winner at Perth, bred by the Messrs 

 Kerr, Lochlane, and by the Millhills Proud Favourite 

 (84,420) ; and Strowan Baroness from Major Graham 

 Stirling and by Congalton Conqueror (88,256). Of 

 the females just noted, Lady Ramsden was by far the 

 most valuable. Highly important additions were made 

 to the herd in 1910. At Mr Howard Higson's Meer 

 Hill sale, near Stratford-on-Avon, Mr Hill bought 

 four front - rank Augustas with the much - prized 

 Waverley cross in their pedigree. These were the 

 white Augusta Anguston 2nd ; her roan heifer calf 

 Double Augusta 2nd by Golden Arrow (83,583) ; her 

 very handsome daughter Double Augusta, full sister 



