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Birmingham Spring Show of 1891 she won in a fine 

 class of cows, and was sold for 110 gs. to Mr C. W. 

 Brierley. Primrose, a roan calved in 1888, and by 

 Prince William (59,706) out of Fairnington Rose, 

 took second prize at Birmingham and was sold to 

 Sir C. H. Tempest, Bart. Primrose 4th, a grand- 

 daughter of Primrose, was calved in 1889, sire Earl 

 of March mont (63,956). That cow was sold to Mr 

 William Duthie, in whose herd she bred one or two 

 bulls but no females. At one time Mr Scott owned 

 representatives of the Faldonside Princess family. He 

 entered the red and white Faldonside Princess, calved 

 in 1877 and bred by Miss Milne of Otterburn. 

 Descendants of that cow were in Mr Scott's possession 

 for a good many years. For a considerable term of 

 years Mr Scott had the use of Hoselaw bulls. After- 

 wards he was more or less indebted to the Messrs 

 Riddell, Greenlees. 



STEVENSON. 



Seventy years ago Mr Hugh Elder, a represent- 

 ative of an old Upper Ward of Lanarkshire farming 

 race, migrated from the Carnwath district to East 

 Bearford, on the Earl of Wemyss' estate in the 

 Haddington district. He was finishing the leases 

 of two holdings in the Upper Ward when he took 

 up his tenancy in East Lothian. Mr Hugh Elder, 

 who died in 1897, had his son, Mr Thomas Elder, 

 associated with him for many years, and the family 

 connection with the farm remained unbroken after 



