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of Cluny (109,170), has been leaving some beautiful 

 calves, but a proportion are too much of his own 

 shade of colour. The finest-looking bull ever used 

 in the herd is the red roan Collynie Nonpareil 

 Knight, the first calf on Mr Duthie's catalogue 

 in 1918. He is by Knight of Collynie (112,229), 

 out of Gainford Nonpareil by Keystone of Cluny 

 (105,856). 



The Keir proprietor has never favoured summer 

 showing to any extent, but he has actively supported 

 the fat-stock exhibitions, and has had many successes 

 with various breeds and crosses at the Scottish 

 National and Smithfield Shows. Keir homestead is 

 one of the best, and the farm-land, all over red sand- 

 stone, grows grain and general crops of superior 

 quality. 



KlPPENROSS AND KlNPURNIE. 



In the days of the late Colonel Stirling of Kippen- 

 davie, Mr A. H. Anderson, the active-minded estate 

 agent, managed a fine stud of Clydesdales and a noted 

 herd of Aberdeen- Angus cattle on the home farms, 

 but since those times the public life of his district 

 and the forwarding of his sons' agricultural and 

 stock-breeding affairs have taken up a good deal 

 of Mr Anderson's energies. His eldest son, Lieut. 

 John W. Anderson of the 7th Cameron Highlanders, 

 a brilliant student of the Glasgow Technical College, 

 fell in the great war. The second son, Mr A. 

 M'Kinlay Anderson, is tenant of the excellent farms 

 of Kinpurnie and Templeton, in the Howe of Strath- 



