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has not been fortunate with his Princess Royal and 

 Augusta purchases. 



Of the first noted, the start was with the 

 roan Princess Royal B. 3, bred by Mr H. M. S. 

 Mackay, Burgie Lodge. A daughter of that cow 

 produced a grand red roan bull calf by Boquhan 

 Guardsman, but the family line then became extinct 

 at Throsk. Augusta 81st, a white heifer from 

 Gairngall, and with the very finest Collynie top- 

 crosses, promised well, but she stopped breeding after 

 producing one bull calf. With the Marigold family 

 Mr Finlayson has been more successful. Marigold 

 Maud 4th, a great framed yet feminine -looking old 

 roan cow, was acquired from Mr A. M. Gregory as a 

 calf. Her sire was Red Clipper (96,648), and her 

 dam was by the good-looking prize-winner Diamond 

 Gift (94,833). One of her sons won two or three 

 championships and other awards for Miss Staples. 

 She had a very good heifer calf in 1918. On the 

 female side the herd now consists of nine Broad- 

 hooks, two Elizas, two Marigolds, and a Clipper, the 

 last noted being a sweet red heifer bred at Montrave 

 and by Duchlage Secret (125,262). 



The first bull used by Mr Finlayson was Holywood 

 (95,502), a dark roan of the Countess family, bred by 

 Mr Hutchison, Cairngall, and by Baron Lavender 

 (85,273), the highest-priced Duthie calf of his year. 

 Then came the Perth third-prize bull Doune Diamond 

 2nd (105,288) by Diamond Earl (98,591) out of Lady 

 Maud, a Meg Merrilies cow. Another son of Dia- 

 mond Earl followed in the dark roan Doune Raider 



