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high- class farming by father and son hide such matters 

 from strangers. The remainder of Corston, and the 

 main portion of Baldinnie, farmed along with it, are 

 composed of useful loam, the total extent being about 

 500 acres. The late Mr David Buttar bred some 

 blackskins, and his son, Mr Thomas A. Buttar, the 

 present tenant, followed for a few years on the same 

 lines, and also produced remarkable crops of blue 

 greys ; but in 1 904 he started a Shorthorn herd. His 

 first purchase of consequence was a Goldie from Mr 

 Buckley. She was by Dream of Millions (72,378), a 

 son of the great bull Wanderer (60,138). At Corston 

 she produced Golden Flower 3rd by Nonpareil Crown 

 (96,221). The 3rd produced Goldies 4th and 7th by 

 Eoyal Eeign (103,747) and Strowan Butterfly 24th 

 (104,110). Then the 4th of the line bred Golden 

 Flower 5th, which was sold to Sir James Sivewright, 

 K.C.M.G. That cow, mated with Merry Victor, bred 

 at Tulliallan the lovely heifer calf for which Mr 

 A. W. Maconochie paid 450 gs. at the Aberdeen 

 autumn sale of 1918. 



At Colonel Munro's sale Mr Buttar bought the 

 Shethin Mysie cow Red Rose by the Lovat Sir George 

 (60,593), and the Miss Ramsden Royal Jubilee by 

 the Newmore Lord Dunraven. To Royal Reign the 

 latter bred Minx, the dam and grandam of some 

 beautiful heifers. In 1905 Mermaid 3rd, another 

 Miss Ramsden by Sigmund (67,905), came from Mrs 

 Law, New Keig, but this line has run mostly to bull- 

 breeding. Peggy 3rd, a fine red Jilt by the Upper- 

 mill Court Favourite (83,196), was bought from Mr 



