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wire in a hedge, and the wound was not noticed at 

 the time. He was used only one season at Saltoun, 

 when he collapsed, but he left his mark. There was 

 not one indifferent calf by him, and all were rich 

 colours. Probably his best young bull was the 

 prettily-shaped red Postmaster out of Pauline llth, 

 a Newton Crystal cow. Postmaster was sold to the 

 Messrs Cameron, Westside, for 650 gs. Last year 

 another son of Champion of Scotland was bought 

 as as old bull in Ireland. That was the massive 

 light roan winner of many prizes, Newton Renown 

 (121,779) of the Rubyhill family. At Perth, in 1918, 

 the Earl of Moray's big and very evenly-fleshed third 

 prize two - year - old red, Sanquhar Grand Courtier 

 (139,193), was secured at 750 gs. He is by Collynie 

 Grand Knight (119,549), from a Eachel cow by 

 Hawthorn Champion (99,098), grandam by the Bal- 

 lechin Tom Bowling (97,441), then back to Captain 

 of the Guard, Athabasca, and Heir of Englishman. 

 He stood third in a very strong class of aged bulls 

 at the Edinburgh Highland. 



Captain Fletcher has taken exceptional precautions 

 to secure healthy stock, and to keep them in sound 

 condition. All animals introduced into the herd are 

 isolated and subjected to the tuberculin test, and also 

 to the equally necessary abortion test, the latter being 

 carried out by Sir John M'Fadyen, to whom a sample 

 of the blood is forwarded. It may be noted in pass- 

 ing that one of the Captain's ancestors kept some 

 Shorthorns at Saltoun over a hundred years ago. The 

 present intention is to keep a breeding herd of about 



