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a very distinct sway to bull-breeding. Mr Kerr's 

 aim in the meantime is towards a score or so of 

 breeding cows, because the sum total of " followers" 

 or young stock is apt to be fairly large in these 

 exporting days. 



Very fine bulls have been used in the herd. The 

 first one, of some note, was the dark roan Prime 

 Favourite (106,546), bred by Mr W. A. Dron. Sired 

 by the Millhills stock bull Proud Favourite (84,420), 

 Prime Favourite had been used for four seasons by 

 the late Mr James M* William, Garbity. An equally 

 well-known bull followed in the white Cromleybank- 

 bred Regent (106,754) of the Roan Lady family and 

 by the famous Royal Crown (84,598). Regent was 

 most effectively put to stock use by Mr John Gill 

 in Cumberland, and it was from results there that Mr 

 Kerr made up his mind to buy him. The Cromley- 

 bank bull was succeeded by the dark roan Sanquhar 

 Grand Gallant (133,421), a massive level Clipper, 

 inclined to be rather round in horn, but mellow- 

 fleshed and rich in hair. He was by Hawthorn 

 Champion (99,098), out of a fine cow by Collynie 

 Grand Knight (119,549). The blood of those two 

 Collynie bulls has been still further introduced during 

 the last two seasons through the recently-exported 

 red Doune Augustus (142,054) by the Perth reserve 

 champion Doune Grand Knight (130,657). Some of 

 the darker coloured females in the herd have been 

 mated this season with the handsome home-bred white 

 Nonpareil Duke by the Sanquhar sire. This white 

 was third in the January class at Perth, where he 



