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Marchioness, Buttercup, and Cowslip families, from 

 which so many prize-winners have been bred. From 

 twenty-five to over thirty years ago the cows of those 

 families, especially the Marchionesses, made a great 

 show in the picturesque policy parks at Strowan. 

 Beautiful in character, with flat, tastefully curved 

 horns, they were of generous substance on short legs. 

 The old features have been well preserved all down 

 the family lines. 



Mr Graham Stirling died in 1896, and his son and 

 successor, Major C. Home Graham Stirling, paid 

 his first visit that autumn to the Aberdeenshire 

 sales, where he made highly important selections. 

 At Uppermill he bought Clara 51st, a grand cow 

 by Captain of the Guard from a dam by William 

 of Orange, and she was in calf to Spicy Bobin. 

 At Newton he was fully as fortunate, as he there 

 acquired at somewhat easy prices the bull calf Star 

 of Dawn (71,681) by Star of Morning (58,189), 

 and the four-year-old Miriam by Mario 2nd, and in 

 calf to the famous " Star." Before the sale started the 

 late Mr A. M. Gordon took his visitor around the 

 steading, and pointing to a roan bull calf in a disused 

 pigsty, he said, " If you don't get a bull in the ring 

 you can have this one." The animal thus cavalierly 

 dealt with was Corner Stone, afterwards first-prize 

 winner in old bulls at the Highland, and champion. 

 Some of the most prettily modelled female animals in 

 the Strowan herd at the present time are of the old 

 Booth Bright family, the first of which was bought 

 from Mr Foljambe of Osberton, Notts. The cows 



