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and no field is spoiled for cropping purposes. Mr 

 Shields laid the foundation of his Shorthorn herd in 

 1915. At the dispersion sale of the late Mr John 

 Marr's herd he bought the dark roan two-year-old 

 Lavender Lady 7th, by the great stock bull Royal 

 Leader (103,737). She was then in calf to the neat 

 red Pirriesmill-bred Esmond (111,713), for which Mr 

 Cazalet paid 320 gs. The Aberdeen joint-sale of the 

 same week provided another selective opportunity. 

 There Mr Shields made a highly fortunate purchase 

 in the Earl of Moray's yearling heifer Doune Broad- 

 hooks, a finely-proportioned roan by Lex of Cluny 

 (109,170), out of a grand breeding cow by Diamond 

 Earl (98,591). The Doune Lodge heifer was in calf 

 to Collynie Gondomar (124,843), and the result was 

 a very pretty red heifer. She bred another heifer 

 calf in 1917, and thus made her family line secure. 

 But when one is seemingly on the way to the crest of 

 success it is well to beware of a knock back. Another 

 Broadhooks, a Clipper, and a Sittyton Violet were 

 secured in the North, but they came down croppers 

 the following season, the only per contra to the good 

 being a bull calf from the Clipper. Misfortunes did not 

 quite end with the disappearance of three fashionably- 

 bred and high-priced heifers, but only one mishap need 

 be recorded in these introductory notes. The roan 

 Princess Secret, bred by Mr George Veitch, and bought 

 at the Marquis of Crewe's sale with her red heifer 

 calf by Sanquhar Searchlight, looked like a splendid 

 investment. No better bred Secret could be found 

 than that cow, as she had Prince Edgar (100,036) for 



