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only a few years on its way the collection of female 

 animals was a magnificent one as seen spread over the 

 rich low ground pastures, along the gentle slopes, and 

 aloft on what the Carse man would term the " dry- 

 field " Dasher Farm. Boquhan itself, on the western 

 edge of the Carse of Stirling in the Kippen country, 

 is mainly on strong clay which tends to become hard 

 in summer and miry in winter. Dasher, with its 

 sharp friable soil, provides the better autumn and 

 winter outrun for stock. From its brae-faces one has 

 wonderful views of Campsies and Ochils and of the 

 rich agricultural valley far spread north and south of 

 the Forth. 



In 1906, two years after the herd was founded, Mr 

 Mitchell had 46 female animals at Boquhan and a 

 score of heifers and heifer calves at Dasher. The 

 females then at Boquhan included 6 Bellonas, 7 

 Augustas, 3 Broadhooks, 4 Miss Ramsdens, 2 Venuses, 

 2 Sittyton Violets, 2 Champion of England Butterflys, 

 2 Clippers, 2 Lavenders, 2 Dairymaids, and single 

 representatives of such noted lines of breeding as the 

 Claret, Clara, Rosewood, Lady Dorothy, Nonpareil, 

 Queen of Rothes, and Kilblean Beauty. At breezy 

 Dasher there were seven Collynie - bred yearling 

 heifers the white Roan Lady, Lady Rosaline 2nd, by 

 Bapton Champion (78,285); the white Vine, Silver 

 Vine, by Godiva Stone (88,710); the roan Hawthorn 

 Blossom, Hawthorn Berry, by Bapton Champion ; the 

 roan Princess Royal, Royal Princess, by Collynie Mint 

 (88,221), out of Collynie Princess 7th by Royal 

 Edward (82,153); the roan Lavender, Sittyton 



