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In connection with Shorthorn breeding, the Messrs 

 Jones are in the happy position of having plenty of 

 space for cropping and grazing should they consider 

 it advisable to work into a fairly large herd. The 

 general oversight of the stock is left very much to 

 Mr Peter Forbes Jones and Mr Tom Bruce Jones, who 

 find at Dunmore Park some pleasurable relaxation 

 from strenuous business. 



Apart from its associations, Dunmore has charms 

 of its own. It is a beautiful section of Lowland 

 Scotland at the bursting of the leaves or when autumn 

 gives abundant hints that winter is near. In the 

 open, one of the finest of views is eastwards across 

 the Forth to the Tulliallan policies and round by 

 Kennet. 



ECCLES. 



Mr James S. Greig, Master of the Berwickshire 

 Foxhounds, general sportsman, noted athlete in Uni- 

 versity days, and now a busy man in county public 

 life, is taking up the Shorthorn cause with ardour 

 and discrimination. His beautiful property, with its 

 substantial soil, good shelter, and conveniently set 

 water supplies, is admirably suited for grazing ; and 

 the farm buildings, which were mainly intended for 

 ordinary commercial stock, are being modified on the 

 most approved lines for a breeding herd. The aim 

 meanwhile is to work up to a strength of 25 or 30 

 cows. Mr Greig made his first purchases of Short- 

 horns at Colonel Munro's dispersion sale in 1914. At 

 that time he took out the Secret cow Silva, and the 



