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stock-breeder, Mr Peter Wilson, Lawhill, is not easily 

 shaken off when he begins to bid for an animal which 

 is to his liking. Mr Wilson, who had the Shorthorn 

 stimulus from the late Mr Duncan Stewart, began to 

 lay the foundations of a first-class herd in 1914. He 

 then acquired from Mr Wm. C. Hunter of Arngask a 

 Bellona cow and a Miss Ramsden heifer. About the 

 same time he acquired from Mr Wm. Craigie the 

 Clipper cow Montrave Ethel, bred by Sir John Gil- 

 mour, Bart. At the Whittingehame sale in 1916, Mr 

 Wilson took out at 100 gs., for Mr T. L. Anderson of 

 Damside, the very pretty roan heifer calf at foot of 

 Goldie 32nd, which then passed to Naemoor. Mr 

 Wilson made several purchases for Mr Anderson, but, 

 after a short trial, the owner of Damside found too 

 many difficulties in keeping blackskins and Short- 

 horns on one farm. Mr Wilson recently made a 

 sporting offer for his neighbour's Shorthorns, and he 

 had a transfer to Lawhill of the Whittingehame Goldie, 

 a Heather wick Clipper heifer which had cost 290 gs. 

 as a calf at Aberdeen, a Clunes Nonpareil, whose 

 original price had been 900 gs., and a very fine 

 Millhiils-bred Princess Royal by Cupbearer of Collynie 

 (114,960). 



To these Mr Wilson added a Queen of Rothes 

 yearling from Messrs Sharp, Rothes, at 260 gs. ; a 

 Montrave Butterfly heifer calf by Duchlage Secret 

 (125,262), a son of Cupbearer of Collynie; a Broad- 

 hooks calf from the Messrs Peterkin ; a Bessie and a 

 Rosebud from Mr Craigie. Attending Mr James 

 Durno's sale at Rothiebrisbane in 1918, Mr Wilson 



