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fully-balanced roan by the red Collynie Bright Star 

 (130,287), so successfully used at Millhills, and is 

 out of a first-class Duchess of Gloster heifer by Max 

 of Cluny (112,487), grandam by Bapton Champion, 

 great-grandam by Wanderer (60,138). 



No prettier little herd than the Moness one can 

 be seen in Scotland. The farm, which is composed of 

 kindly soil, grows and feeds stock very well. Upper 

 fields are open to the east winds, but there are 

 cosy bits low down and at the burn- side. Farm 

 buildings have been considerably improved in recent 

 years. 



NAEMOOR. 



" It's no aye rainin' on the misty Aechils, 

 It's no aye white wi' winter on Nigour ; 

 The winds are no sae mony sorrowin' Rachels 

 That grieve an' o' their grief will not gie ower." 



By the author of * Horace in Homespun.' 



The finest monument to Mr John Moubray of The 

 Moor and Cambus, grandfather of Mr John J. Moubray, 

 is the Naemoor section of the Devon valley. That 

 part of the country gained much climatically before 

 the middle of last century through the improver's 

 enterprise, and since that time the conditions of life 

 on and near the old " Moor of Muckart " have been 

 made gentler by continuous attentions to drainage 

 and tree-planting. With the Ochils on the north 

 and the Cleish Hills well in the distance to the south, 

 Naemoor falls easily towards the sun. At the farm 

 buildings the elevation is over 500 feet. Most of the 



