176 SHORTHORNS 



Early - life training and long experience in dealing 

 with rural affairs steadily strengthened the " call of 

 the land." In 1912 he leased the compact farm of 

 Dargill on the Ancaster estate, near Crieff. A sharply 

 friable 240-acres holding, with a gravelly subsoil for 

 the most part, Dargill shrivels up to some extent in a 

 dry season, but it grows good quality of produce and 

 is prettily set in a district which is never without 

 charms. An excellent steading for commercial pur- 

 poses is being modified and slightly extended for 

 Shorthorns, and the herd is now fairly on its way. It 

 contains members of the Secret, Augusta, Rosewood, 

 the Sunshine branch of the old Mayflower, Charlotte 

 Corday, Myrtle, Marigold, Butterfly, G oldie, Brawith 

 Bud, Lady Dorothy, Shethin Mysie, Princess Royal, 

 and Mary o' Argyll families. 



The first purchase was a Mysie by Strowan Butter- 

 fly 28th (117,922), from Mr Waterson, Stewart Tower, 

 Stanley, in 1913 ; but no selections of special conse- 

 quence were made until 1918, when the founding of a 

 herd was set about with thoroughness and under the 

 stimulus of Millhills. In the spring of 1918 Mr 

 Gardiner secured a couple of Broadhooks yearling 

 heifers from Mr Gordon-Oswald of Aigas in White 

 Lady by Prince of Orange (132,831), and Dainty 

 Jewel, a red by Royal Mascot (133,324). At the 

 Cullisse sale in autumn he added another of the same 

 family in Lady Zona, a red two-year-old by Red 

 Emperor (87,026), from a dam by Merry Archer 

 (67,477). Cullisse Yinolia, a roan Brawith Bud cow 

 by the Crieffvechter Choirmaster (114,699), was another 



