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family, and Beaufort Eothes Prince (124,215), a dark 

 roan member of the Queen of Rothes family by 

 Nestor of Cluny (116,733). 



With such a grand collection of females by Edgcote 

 Masterpiece, the difficulty is to strike a perfectly 

 successful dark - coloured cross. The chances are 

 entirely in favour of Mr Moubray. Merit and high- 

 class breeding are combined in his latest purchase, 

 the red Broadhooks bull Balcairn Crusader, which 

 cost 2300 gs. at Mr Wallace's sale. The young bull 

 is by the great sire Earl of Kingston (120,041), and 

 his dam is by the Uppermill Royal Luxury (106,919). 

 Calves of exceptional promise are now being left by 

 the red Garbity Field Marshal (142,541). 



NETHER KINNEDDEE. 



Sixteen years ago the brilliant surgeon, Dr (now 

 Sir Kennedy) Dalziel, bought the South Fifeshire 

 property of Nether Kinnedder, extending to about 

 1200 acres. Early life experience in his native 

 Dumfriesshire turned Sir Kennedy to landed affairs, 

 and very specially to the breeding and general 

 management of hill sheep ; and from those bases it 

 was but natural that he should build and vary as 

 time and opportunity should determine. South-west 

 of the Saline Hills, and with a general fall towards 

 the south and south-west, Nether Kinnedder is of 

 course over the coal measures. It is in five farms 

 Kinnedder Mains, Blairsgreen, Standalane, Cattle- 

 moss, and Bickramside. Most of the soil is a useful 



