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remarkable stock bull Millicent Chief (96,096). 

 Thirty years ago some of the most beautiful female 

 animals in the Beaufort Castle herd were of the 

 Undine family. Undine 38th, a white two-year-old, 

 bred by Mr C. M. Bruce at The Langcot, and by 

 Collynie Regal Lavender (114,770), has much of the 

 old character and style, and her heifer calf, a roan by 

 Collynie Proud Beau, a 600-gs. purchase by Mr Bruce 

 at Mr Duthie's sale of 1918, shows real distinction. 

 The Rachel, a red two-year-old, bred by Mr Buchanan 

 at Whitehouse, is one of the best-bred heifers of her 

 line. She is fifth in descent from the massive 

 Uppermill William of Orange (50,694) cow Rapture, 

 owned for some years by the late Mr Donald Fisher ; 

 her grandmother was Rachel of Ballechin, a high-class 

 cow by Marquis (84,061), one of the most perfectly- 

 shaped bulls of his time, and she herself is by the 

 handsome show bull Auchnacree Laird (134,740). 

 Female animals of old Bates families and with top- 

 crosses of Cruickshank blood might be more generally 

 favoured. In Keepsake, a red two-year-old of Kirk- 

 levington descent, bred by Mr A. Wybergh in Cumber- 

 land, the young herd at Nether Kinnedder has an 

 animal of scale and much sweetness. She is by Mr 

 John Gill's Prince Butterfly (132,797), and her dam, 

 which was bred at Auchnacree, was by the wonderfully 

 successful breeder Strowan Butterfly 24th (104,110). 

 Lawton Schoolmaster, a handsome red two-year-old, 

 sold at Perth last spring by Sir Kennedy for 400 gs., 

 was sire of the Kirklevington heifer's bull calf. The 

 Lawton-bred bull was a Lady Dorothy by Dunglass 



