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what can be accomplished in a quiet way by using 

 first-class bulls and retaining the best heifers. 



RACHAN. 



Peebles as a whole is more of a flockmaster's 

 county than an arable and cattle-breeding area, but 

 at picturesquely situated Rachan, with its guardian 

 Drumelzier, Stobo, and other hills, Mr Henry B. 

 Marshall, the owner of the estate, has made a 

 reputation as a breeder of Clydesdale horses, and he 

 is now in the strong army of Cruickshank Shorthorn 

 breeders. Six years ago he made an excellent start 

 with the red-white-and-roan, and since then he has 

 been one of the most enterprising of bidders for the 

 very best. At Colonel Munro's sale in 1914 he 

 acquired Charity 16th, a red Newton-bred two-year- 

 old Clipper by President of the Mint (109,670). That 

 proved a highly fortunate purchase, as the fashion- 

 ably bred female produced four heifer calves in succes- 

 sion at Rachan, her first being a roan by the Collynie 

 Merry Victor (116,563), her second a red by Doune 

 Warlock (125,229), her third and fourth a roan and 

 a red by Throsk Masterpiece (133,934). In 1919 she 

 had a red bull-calf by the Crieffvechter-bred Capti- 

 vator (141,429). In 1915 Mr Marshall bought a 

 beautiful light roan Augusta from Mr Robert Duncan, 

 the well-known breeder and exporter. That was 

 Augusta 130th by Marmion (10,933). From her three 

 heifer calves have been bred. Another Clipper, and a 

 specially valuable one, was secured the same season 



