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terpreting and application of local government enact- 

 ments, or the improvement of roadways and water 

 supplies. He founded his Shorthorn herd thirteen 

 years ago by purchasing at the Oliverburn sale three 

 cows owned by the representatives of the late " Laird 

 Bobertson." One of those cows, a Meg Merrilies, 

 proved a very fortunate investment, as she bred twelve 

 calves without a break. In 1908, Mr Henderson 

 acquired a pretty heifer calf, Strowan Buttercup 26th, 

 from Major Graham Stirling. That calf developed 

 into a handsome true-breeding cow. At the Buccleuch 

 dispersion in the same year he bought Bright Lass, a 

 fine yearling of the same family as Rose of Collynie. 

 In 1909 he attended the Ballechin dispersion sale, 

 and bought at an easy figure Lady Dorothy 41st and 

 her heifer calf by Tom Bowling (97,441), and from 

 those two he has bred a large number of first-class 

 good-milking females. From Phingask he acquired 

 the same autumn a member of the comparatively 

 scarce Snowfly family, and one of the best cows in the 

 herd at the present time is of this line of breeding, 

 A valuable addition to the herd was made in 1913 in 

 Doune Goldie 3rd, which unfortunately was lost after 

 producing her second heifer calf in the herd, Her 

 daughters are most distinguished-looking cows. He 

 made no purchase of consequence again until 1914, 

 when he took a couple of very fine white heifers from 

 Redgorton. These were Daffodil 27th by Redgorton 

 Augustus (112,995), and Bertie Lincoln, a Miss 

 Ramsden by Pride of Livet (109,678), The latter 

 was lost unfortunately after giving birth to a fine 



