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clever manager and business man, the junior has 

 profited greatly from the shrewd advice and selective 

 genius of his father. When the herd was making its 

 way Bridgebank almost sufficed for its grazing and 

 wintering, but about nine years ago it became abso- 

 lutely necessary to take another holding. Claymoddie, 

 fully thirty miles east-south-east, in the Whithorn 

 district, was leased, and for a few years the cattle, 

 with the exception of bulls in preparation for ship- 

 ment, were kept on the farm beyond Luce Bay. Over 

 two years ago still more space was urgently required, 

 and the very desirable farm of Cruggleton, east-north- 

 east from Claymoddie, near Garlieston, and on the 

 western edge of wild Wigtown Bay, was also leased. 

 Last year Mr Matthew Marshall bought Cruggleton 

 and the two neighbouring farms of Palmallet and Cults 

 from Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart., of Lochnaw. All 

 over, the Messrs Marshall now hold about 2000 acres 

 of land, and practically all the Shorthorns, usually 

 numbering from 350 to over 400 head, are kept on 

 the peninsula between Luce Bay and Wigtown Bay. 



The herd is famous for its Augustas. It has about 

 100 females of that family, 40 Princess Royals, the 

 like of Claras, 17 Rosebuds, 15 each of Secrets and 

 Rosewoods, and 10 Clippers. Other families repre- 

 sented are the Orange Blossoms, Nonpareils, Broad- 

 hooks, Brawith Buds, Miss Ramsdens, Jilts, Lan- 

 casters, and Marr Bessies, Goldies, and Blythsomes. 

 One line of Augustas, acquired from the late Mr Wm. 

 R. Trotter, has the cross of Mr Deane Willis's Stephen 

 Fitz Lavender (73,732), which was out of the same 



