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CHARMER. 



Bloomer 201, the second daughter of Queen Mother, 

 calved in 1849, was a great prizewinner at home, and 

 stood second to Charlotte at the Paris International in 

 1856. 



From Bloomer was bred The Belle 205, also a ist 

 H.A.S. prizewinner, and from her Lovely of Tillyfour 

 1166, which was ist at the International Show at 

 Battersea 1862 and at the R.N. Show as a two-year-old, 

 and 2nd in 1864 and ist in 1865 at the H.A.S. Show as a 

 cow. 



From her daughter Charmer 1172 was bred the bull 

 Moudiewart 686, the sire of both the grandsire and grand 

 dam of the well-known stock bull Iliad 2843, a H.A.S. 

 prizewinner, which went to Ballindalloch in 1883 and 

 remained there until 1893, when he was destroyed. He 

 was the sire of the bulls Esquire, Plutarch, Prince Iliad, 

 Prince Inca, Esmond, Enthusiast, Edric, Eltham, 

 Gilderoy, Miclas, and other celebrated bulls mentioned in 

 these notes. Of these at the H.A.S. Show 1892 Prince 

 Inca was first in the aged Class and champion, Enthusiast 

 ist in the two-year-old, and Eltham ist in the yearling. 

 Of Iliad Mr. Hendry says in his article on Famous Sires, 

 " that he left more famous sires of first-class reputation 

 between 1885 and 1893 than almost any other Aberdeen- 

 Angus herd has produced in the course of its whole 

 history." 



From Charmer was also bred at Tillyfour Charmer 

 2nd 1797, which passed to Guisachan at the Tillyfour 



Sale in 1878 Charmer 3rd 3251, a daughter of 



Charmer 2nd, at the same sale went at 150 guineas to 

 Aboyne and afterwards at a high price to Canada. 



