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The Claras have done admirably at Strowan. They 

 are exceptionally fine animals to look at, and their 

 record is great. Strowan Mavis Clare by Spicy 

 Robin (69,038) won second at the Highland ; Strowan 

 Clare by Montrave Baron (81,740) took third; and 

 Strowan Clare 6th by Strowan Regent took second 

 place. Then in bulls the family produced Cock Robin, 

 a Highland third-prize yearling, afterwards champion 

 at Chicago ; Strowan Champion, with a fourth and a 

 second to his credit at the Highland ; Strowan 

 Clarion, already noted ; Strowan Claverhouse, a first- 

 class stock bull ; and Strowan Clarionet, which was 

 sold to the Edgcote Shorthorn Company for 750 gs. 

 Strowan Clayre by Strowan Marquis 13th was dam 

 of Clarion, Claverhouse, Clarionet, and Clara 6th a 

 wonderful breeding record. 



The herd is kept at a breeding strength of 20 to 25 

 cows. From twenty to thirty years ago some of the 

 Marchioness females began to wear into white stock- 

 ings, and in order to cancel that feature the remark- 

 ably handsome white Montrave - bred Sportsman 

 (75,719) by Mr George R. Fortune's stock bull 

 Nimrod (75,135), out of a dam by the Uppermill 

 Michigan (75,086), was acquired, and was most 

 successfully used. That fine bull, which won at the 

 Highland, came between the Star of Dawn and Mon- 

 trave Baron periods. Major Graham Stirling con- 

 siders Strowan Regent (97,347) to have been the 

 most consistently good breeder of all the noted bulls 

 ever used in the herd. At the present time the bulls 

 in use are the Collynie-bred red Lord of the Ring 



