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afterwards King Edward VII., for the six-year-old 

 cow Fragrant Blossom. Her heifer calf accompanied 

 her at 65 gs. Both were for the famous Sandring- 

 ham herd. The late Mr Duncan Stewart made his 

 first Shorthorn purchase at the sale, his choice 

 being Veronica 2nd, for which he paid 81 gs. Mr 

 W. A. Dron paid the top price of 100 gs. in the 

 male section for the handsomely-proportioned roan 

 Minotaur of Dalmeny by Lord Provost out of the 

 Kinellar Mina cow. A small portion of the first herd 

 was kept going until 1901, and then disposed of 

 privately. 



Mr J. T. M'Laren, who must be highly compli- 

 mented on soundness of judgment in founding and 

 building-up the present herd, made his first selection 

 at the Berkeley Castle draft sale on 15th July 1909 in 

 the grand-looking Royal winner Waterloo 70th, which 

 cost 320 gs. This roan cow, with her beautiful head 

 and almost perfect symmetry, was greatly admired at 

 the time, and her female descendants at Dalmeny 

 show charm of character, substance, and milking 

 powers. Heifers of the Beaufort Broadhooks and 

 Julia or Dairymaid families were bought at the 

 Stirling " Highland." One of them, Empress of Mill- 

 craig, with Ringleader blood, bred several beautiful 

 females to the noted Millicent Chief. Lothian 

 Baroness of this breeding took first prize at York in 

 1913, and was secured by Mr Cazalet. None of the 

 earlier selections promised greater things than did 

 Augustine 2nd, a light roan two-year-old from Sir 

 Herbert Leon's Bletchley Park herd, and by the 



