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advisable to transfer some of the Shorthorns to the 

 place. 



Prior to 1912, Mr Thomas Elder bought a fine old 

 Mary of Argyll cow and her white bull calf by the 

 Legars Bashful Boy (85,301) from the late Mr Joseph 

 Lee. There are now six descendants of the old cow 

 in the herd. Breeders will remember that Captain 

 John Macgillivray's 2600 -gs. bull Aldie Armistice, 

 the Perth reserve champion of last year, was of this 

 family. The calf by Bashful Boy grew into a hand- 

 some bull, and was twice first at the district shows. 

 He was then exported to the Argentine. Mr Elder's 

 real start as a Shorthorn breeder was in 1912. At 

 the Aberdeen October sale of that year he bought 

 the red heifer Myrtle 2nd from Balnakyle. She was 

 by Nonpareil Gift (103,196), and her dam was by the 

 Millhills stock bull Proud Favourite (84,420). When 

 she was a three-year-old she produced a pretty red 

 heifer calf, Myrtle's Queen, by the home-bred dark 

 roan Flora's Favourite (115,413). Myrtle's Queen is 

 now the oldest member of her family in the herd. 

 She is dam of the twin yearlings which were sold 

 at Perth last year for 200 gs. each. These were by 

 Throsk Broadhooks 26th (133,930). Other two young 

 red cows in the herd are from the same mother. 

 Stevenson Myrtle, one of these, is a breeder's animal 

 in character and shapes. Attending the Congalton 

 dispersion sale, Mr Elder bought the white Congalton 

 Rosemary 3rd by Dunglass Conqueror (83,377), and 

 her highly promising roan heifer calf by Birdsall 

 Briar (101,547). The calf which Mr Lee rather 



