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individual merit into account, those were cheap cows. 

 Monarch's Fancy was bought by Mr Dunbar-Buller 

 for 67 gs. 



The existing herd, owned by the Hon. Lady Miller, 

 is entirely composed of Marigolds descended from a 

 beautiful roan heifer calf, Manderston Marigold, by 

 Monarch's Fancy (89,355), out of Scotch Marigold 

 4th. With the sire first referred to on one side of 

 the new foundation, and with Royal Edward, Lovat 

 Champion, Clarence, and William of Orange on the 

 other side, the fresh departure has resulted in the 

 production of high-class females of a true Cruick- 

 shank type. The herd is now composed of five cows, 

 three two-year-old heifers, a couple of yearlings, and 

 a few very fine calves. 



MANUEL HOUSE. 



The Manuel House herd has come into note very 

 rapidly through the successes of the bulls exhibited 

 at the Perth spring shows. Mr James Napier 

 Reynard, the young owner of the herd, a fully- 

 qualified veterinary surgeon with farming and stock- 

 breeding tastes, was comfortably set agoing a few 

 years ago by his father, Mr John Napier Reynard, 

 one of Glasgow's able business men, and also dis- 

 tinguished in bygone years as breeder and exhibitor 

 of dogs and poultry. Mr James N. Reynard made his 

 first Shorthorn selection at the Perth spring show 

 of 1912 in the yearling Miss Ramsden Mermadina, 

 bred by Mr Napier, Nether Dallachy, and by Band 



