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in the red Aldie Emblem (140,384), bred by Captain 

 Macgillivray, and by Proud Emblem (100,099), so 

 successfully used at Saphock, out of a grand breeding 

 cow of Mary o' Argyll descent by the Garbity 

 Eoyal Pride (106,935), a son of Pride of Avon. 

 Aldie Emblem has been champion at the Strathearn 

 Show and first at the county event. With ordinary 

 good fortune Dargill should go far. 



DARLINGFIELD. 



On the extensive farm of Darlingfield near Kelso, 

 Mr Hugh B. Stirling has been forming a Shorthorn 

 herd as balancing effect against Clydesdale horses 

 and the breeding and feeding of sheep. The farm 

 has about 600 acres in rotation and 150 acres in 

 permanent grass, and the soil ranges from light and 

 porous in parts of the higher fields to loam of fairly 

 useful strength and depth on the lower enclosures. 

 In 1918 Mr Stirling bought from Mr Greig of Eccles a 

 couple of finely bred young cows. These were the roari 

 Ballechin Carnation, Strathtay Beauty, by Strathtay 

 Major (123,152), out of a dam by Tom Bowling 

 (97,441), grandam by Marquis (84,061), which was 

 sold for 2000 in the Argentine ; and Gay Lass, 

 a white Newton Pauline bred at Millhills, and by 

 Cupbearer of Colly nie (114,960), out of a cow by 

 Captain of the Mint (94,565), sire of the famous 

 Cluny Castle President of the Mint. From Mrs 

 Burnyeat's draft at Penrith he next selected a 

 Broadhooks, a roan heifer by Lavender Royal King 



