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about 30 cows. For The Grange alone that number 

 might be put as the limit, but Mr Piper has always 

 his Glenfarg district farms to fall back upon for 

 summering the young female stock, and even for 

 wintering the non-calving heifers. 



THROSK. 



Throsk farm, a few miles down the river-side from 

 Stirling, had an extent of nearly 500 acres until 1918, 

 when 240 acres were taken off it by the Admiralty. 

 A representative carse-land holding of deep, sub- 

 stantial clay loam, it was noted for a long time in 

 connection with the growing of timothy hay. Except 

 for its fine bank of old grass sloping down to the 

 side of the Forth, the farm is not quite a stock- 

 breeder's ideal, as most of the soil is more adapted 

 for cropping than for use as a grazing range. Still 

 it is healthy, and cattle do well on its rich turf. 

 Mr Wm. Finlayson, the highly esteemed tenant, was 

 induced to try Shorthorn-breeding over twenty years 

 ago. He made an easy and remarkably fortunate 

 purchase in 1898. An admirer of the Earl of R-ose- 

 bery bought Duchess of Dalmeny, a red Broadhooks, 

 at the Earl's sale, and Mr Finlayson acquired the 

 cow shortly afterwards. Sired by Strowan Marquis 

 (63,417), she bred at Throsk the roans Duchess 

 Broadhooks and Princess Broadhooks, both by the 

 roan Dunglass Lady Anne bull Carlo (76,304) of the 

 late Mr Wm. Alexander's breeding, and a first-prize 

 winner at Messrs Speedie Brothers', Stirling show and 



