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took a couple of high-class heifer calves a Balna- 

 kyle Butterfly and a Cluny Orange Blossom, the 

 former by Edgcote Wanderer (vol. xliv.), the latter 

 by Collynie Grand Duke (124,844). The Butterfly 

 cost 400 gs. and the Orange Blossom 420 gs. At the 

 North Loirston sale Mr Elder paid 340 gs. for a five- 

 year - old Secret cow by the Saphock Gipsy Boy 

 (111,535). 



To sum up, the families in this interesting herd of 

 fine-looking cattle are the Butterfly, Orange Blossom, 

 Rosemary, Broadhooks, Secret, Myrtle, Lady Dorothy, 

 Mary of Argyll, and Miss Ramsden. 



The best breeding bull used in the herd has been 

 the massive red Throsk Broadhooks 26th. There is 

 much promise in the roan yearling Newton Royal 

 Beau, which cost 400 gs. as a calf. He is by the 

 Clipper bull Newton Cossack (vol. Ixv.), and out of 

 a cow of the Beauty family by Lothian Regal Star 

 (126,644). This yearling, which took third at Edin- 

 burgh, shows a great deal of breeding. 



STROWAN. 



Shorthorns have been bred at Strowan since 1842, 

 but for the first twenty years of its existence the herd 

 was a small one. In 1870 the cattle were sold off 

 with the exception of two favourite animals. It is to 

 one of these, Lady Groat by the noted Cruickshank 

 bull Lord Chamberlain (22,129), that the herd has 

 been so greatly indebted. She was bought as a calf 

 at Keir in 1867, and she founded the Strowan 



