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reclaimed most of the farm from rough grazing, re- 

 moved boulders, carted hundreds of tons of useful soil 

 on to the bare portions, banked the river Esk where 

 it was wont to spread out in times of spate, and practi- 

 cally built the farmhouse and steading. Most of that 

 work was finished before 1841. The late Mr John 

 Welsh Johnstone Paterson, son of the great improver, 

 was born at Terrona, and he died there in December 

 1904. " J. W. J.," as he was wont to be termed by 

 many of his familiars, had probably no equal in the 

 South of Scotland or over the Border as a judge of a 

 hunting horse. For a long time he was Master of the 

 Eskdale Hounds, and his many services to sport and 

 agriculture were handsomely recognised towards the 

 close of his career in a presentation portrait. A man 

 of middle height and very powerfully built, his strong, 

 mobile, well-tanned countenance, with nothing but its 

 short side-whiskers to hide the play of expression, 

 proclaimed offhand an open-air life in sun, wind, and 

 shower. At a show luncheon he was all geniality, 

 but when he had to respond for " The Judges," he 

 wasted no time. He said something in particular, 

 and said it very well in the homeliest of terms, then 

 sat down. 



Mr Paterson founded his herd of Shorthorns about 

 1862 with district families, and he held very much to 

 the Border strains until 1893-94, when the Cruick- 

 shank cattle were steadily coming into prominence. 

 His more prominent bulls were Stannington (60,012), 

 Major Windsor (34,739), British Beau (58,560), and 

 Carpet Knight (85,529). Over twenty years ago his 



