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duce something fit to take high rank. At the Links- 

 field sale Mr A. J. Marshall paid 680 gs. for Patrician. 

 Another selection at Colonel Johnston's dispersion 

 was made by the Hoprig Mains junior in Sweet Mina, 

 a pretty red calf of the old Rettie Meg Merrilies 

 family. Sired by the 3000 gs. Lothian Mario 

 (137,713), one of the finest bulls of the day, she 

 cost 200 gs. 



KAIMFLAT. 



On the pleasantly-set 300-acres farm of Kaimflat, 

 with its useful strength of soil, good roads, and 

 thorough equipment in buildings, Mr Robert Graham, 

 one of the busiest men in the Kelso district, has been 

 gradually building up a Shorthorn herd, his aim being 

 a muster of about twenty breeding cows. His set-off 

 was at the Buccleuch dispersion sale of 1908, where 

 he took out a Heather Bell by the Clunes-bred 

 Levanter (89,068). At the Newton sale in 1913 he 

 acquired a fine breeder in a Ruby hill cow by R.N.D. 

 (93,110). She was first in the milking class at the 

 Royal Northern and at the Border Union. Two-year- 

 old and yearling daughters of the old cow bred at 

 Kaimflat show a great deal of breeding, and should 

 prove valuable as matrons. In 1913 also Mr Graham 

 bought from Mr Inglis of Pirntaton, Gala Water, a 

 handsome cow and good breeder in Sweet Maid 3rd 

 by Strowan Duke 3rd (104,114). Her daughter, a 

 roan of high-class character, took fourth as a year- 

 ling at the Hawick Highland Show. The sire of 



