HERD NOTICES 131 



having the shelter of a high hedge. Mr Meikle rents 

 5Q acres of grazing land on Abbot's Grange, part of 

 the Blair Drummond property. 



On the principle that it is well to let agricultural 

 juniors have responsibilities along lines which appeal 

 to their talents and instincts, Mr Meikle has encour- 

 aged his elder son, Mr Robert W. Meikle, to form a 

 select little herd of Shorthorns. The junior made his 

 first purchase in 1911. That was the Jenny Lind cow 

 Countess 10th from the late Mr Thomas A. Anderson, 

 Ballachraggan. Attending the Newton sale in 1916, 

 he secured the beautiful heifer Newton Augusta by 

 Champion of Scotland (111,261). At the Montrave 

 dispersion in 1917 he acquired the grand breeding 

 ten-year-old Clipper cow Eva by Polmaise Handsome 

 Prince (96,423), and in 1919 he made a fine choice at 

 the Newton dispersion in the Brawith Bud cow 

 Golden Jewel by Earl Manvers' Diamond Duke 

 (111,530). From Mr A. J. Marshall's Penrith group 

 of heifers last year Mr Meikle next selected at 320 gs. 

 the red Gay Butterfly of the Blythesome family by 

 Gainford Ringleader (136,657). 



The Countess cow is now represented in the herd by 

 Countess Bearcrofts, sire Alfred-the-Great (107,617), 

 and Caroline Bearcrofts by Highland Laddie (112,068). 

 Those are handsome framed cows. Newton Augusta 

 has a fine yearling daughter in Augusta Brilliant 

 by the Doune Lodge stock bull Dunglass Brilliant 

 (120,003), while the old Montrave cow has a lovely 

 red daughter of 1919 birth in Clipperette by the 

 Doune Lodge sire. 



