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Old Jock, born in 1842, we shall 

 see the Bakewellian method as 

 carried out in its most intense 

 form. Then, by another diagram, 

 we shall see the streams through 

 which the blood of Old Jock 

 flowed down to some of his 

 most illustrious descendants, first 

 at Mains of Kelly and Kinnaird, 

 in Forfarshire, then at Tilly four, 

 in Aberdeenshire, and finally at 

 w' Ballindalloch, in Banffshire, the 

 o places to which in succession 

 g Aberdeen- Angus breeders have 

 g turned for stock bulls and higher 

 o class cows and heifers. A short 

 3 examination of these diagram 

 pedigrees will show that the in- 

 breeding begun by Hugh Watson 

 was continued, though with less 

 intensity, by his successors. The 

 extraordinary concentration of Old 

 Jock blood in Aberdeen-Angus 

 cattle to-day may be gathered 

 from the fact that it would be 

 difficult, if not impossible, to find 



1 In the "Aberdeen- Angus Herd Book," 

 and in other writings there is some confusion 

 as to Old Jock's pedigree; but, after con- 

 siderable inquiry and examination, the above 

 seems to be its last few generations. 



