HERD NOTICES 305 



Westside. The late Mr Archibald Cameron, a man 

 of remarkable natural abilities, left his native Perth- 

 shire for the Black Isle of Ross in 1872. There he 

 leased the farm of Artafallie. In 1882 he took Killen, 

 and with the assistance of his clever sons, Messrs 

 Donald, John, and Archibald Cameron, he soon made the 

 farm famous for Shorthorn cattle and Border Leicester 

 sheep. Beaufort, then managed by a master judge, 

 Mr Lawson, was the special attraction in Shorthorns. 

 From that stronghold the Messrs Cameron acquired 

 their first Broadhooks and Dairymaids. A Lady 

 Sarah was added from Major Cradock ; a grand 

 family of Flowers short pedigreed, but milky and 

 noble - looking came from Yorkshire ; the Revelry 

 line of Dunmore note was added ; and the Lady 

 Waterloo family was a good acquisition from Fettes, 

 where the late Mr Duncan Cameron, another of Mr 

 Archibald Cameron's sons, had a fine herd. Mr 

 Duncan Cameron was the first to take a Waterloo 

 into Ross-shire, his original purchase being Lady 

 Waterloo 32nd, bred by Mr Ecroyd, Armathwaite. 



In 1900 the Messrs Cameron quitted Killen for 

 Westside, on the Earl of Dalhousie's property near 

 Brechin, and there the herd and flock have been 

 kept going, and always with improvements in view. 

 Westside, which extends to 460 acres, has about 100 

 acres of thin, half-moory, scorching land, and the 

 main part of the farm otherwise is a friable loam on 

 a gravelly subsoil. On the whole, it takes best with 

 a showery season. Buildings are ample and good. 

 After an uncommonly active, helpful life, the old 



