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the first noted having come originally from Fettes, 

 and to these a few years later he added a Lady 

 Dorothy and a Shethin Mysie from Mr Napier, Nether 

 Dallachy, a Broadhooks from Dalmeny, a Clara from 

 Cromleybank, a Countess from Newton of Insch, a 

 Roan Lady from Collynie, and a Queen of Rothes from 

 Mr Alexander Crombie, Woodend. In course of the 

 last few years Mr Cameron has been gradually dis- 

 carding the English families, and adding to the Cruick- 

 shank lines of breeding. Until last year, however, 

 his Mina cow, one of the foundation lot, was fresh at 

 seventeen years old, and he had fine members of the 

 Waterloo, Blanche, Lady Sarah, and Revelry families. 

 These had, of course, first-rate Scotch top-crosses, and 

 they held their own well in Shorthorn character 

 against the fashionable Cruickshank representa- 

 tives. 



The first bull used at Newton was the red West- 

 side-bred Stracathro (100,776) by Regal Star (87,061), 

 out of Westside Gladys Waterloo by Extraordinary 

 (76,640). The junior got the use of Westside bulls 

 also at that time and for three or four years later. 

 Then he followed with Keir Masher (109,033), a red 

 Marigold by Lord Elgin (89,117), from a dam by 

 Royal Charter (84,585); Clipper Dairyman (105,048), 

 a dark roan member of the Dairymaid family by West- 

 side Clipper (101,095); Colonel A. T. Gordon's Arc- 

 light (113,917); the short-legged Nether Dallachy- 

 bred red Clipper Monarch (135,769) ; and the mag- 

 nificent white Beaufort Snow King (140,873), the 

 fourth-prize winner at Perth in 1918 and second 



