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On only one occasion during the last ten years have 

 the Polmaise bulls been out of the prize list at Perth. 

 In 1909, 1910, and 1915 the herd provided the reserve 

 groups. Surplus heifers have been sold privately to 

 home breeders and for export to the Argentine and 

 South Africa. Mr Robertson's skill and care have 

 been admirably backed in recent years by James Hay, 

 the expert herdsman. 



PRIESTGILL. 



At high-lying Priestgill in the Strathaven district 

 of Lanarkshire, Mr Thomas Dykes has been breeding 

 Shorthorns for about fifteen years. His first pur- 

 chases of consequence were a Mysie by Gold Bank 

 (86,063), from Messrs Calder of Ardargie, and an 

 Emmeline by Mercury's Farewell (99,609), from the 

 late Mr Robert Menzies, Tirinie, Aberfeldy. Those 

 females proved excellent breeders. A few years ago 

 he bought at one of the Collynie sales the pretty 

 calf Broadhooks Beauty by Regal Crown (117,292), 

 and two years later he acquired a Clara from his 

 neighbour, the late Mr John Watson, Kirkwood 

 House. Mr Dykes has twelve breeding cows of the 

 families just noted. His principal bulls have been Clip- 

 per Rosemount (114,730), bred by the Messrs Cameron, 

 Westside, and by Rosemount (109,965); Rosemary 

 Beau (122,528), bred by Mr R. Wylie Hill, and by 

 Proud Beau 3rd (106,627) ; Boquhan Augusta Prince 

 (529,748), of Mr Stephen Mitchell's breeding and by 

 Collynie King Royal (114,768); and the bull now 



