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on settling at Keillor, but his daughter states that this did not 

 begin until about 1815 or 1816, his ambition being aroused by a 

 visit to the English Shorthorn country. Watson in-and-in bred 

 and produced a more early-maturing, heavier-fleshed, blockier 

 type that dressed out better than ever before. He also empha- 

 sized family lines and bred each family rather within itself. His 

 bull Old Jock (i), calved in 1842, a great-grandson of Tarnty 



FIG. 117. Blackcap Bertram 183787, a noted Aberdeen-Angus show bull and sire. 



Sold by C. D. and E. F. Caldwell, Burlington Junction, Missouri, for $45,000 to 



L. B. McCanum, Aledo, Illinois. From photograph by Hildebrand, by courtesy 



of Caldwell and Caldwell 



Jock, was his most valuable sire, possessing remarkable quality 

 and constitution, and was a noted show animal. Watson's most 

 famous cow, Old Grannie (I), was one of the wonders of the 

 bovine race. It is thought that this cow was among the original 

 six bought by Watson, and that he secured her from a breeder 

 in Kincardineshire. She lived to be thirty-six years old and had 

 twenty-five calves, the last a bull of merit, named Hugh (130), 

 being dropped in her twenty-ninth year. Referring to Watson as 

 a breeder Mr. McCombie 1 pays him the following high compliment : 



1 William McCombie, Cattle and Cattle Breeders. Edinburgh, 1869. 



