406 FIELD AND FERN. 



As a Galloway winner at the Higliland Society- 

 Mr. Beattie has had few marrows, and many photo- 

 graphed prize-winners hang on his parlonr walls. It 

 was with Palmers old cow that he first began; but 

 his great hit was with Mosstrooper (296), whom he 

 purchased at six years old, from Gibbons of Moss- 

 band. He won fifteen first prizes, and was never 

 beaten, but he had an accident on board ship, that 

 fearful night (when Mr. Douglas was within an ace 

 of being washed overboard) as he returned from the 

 Paris Show, and was sold to the butcher when they 

 reached the London Docks. He left a very good one 

 behind him in Mosstrooper 3rd, who was first at the 

 Highland Society in ^60, and first at Battersea as 

 well. At Dumfries he beat all the polls for the gold 

 medal, and Messrs. Hugh Watson and Graham re- 

 ported him to the Royal English Society's Journal as 

 " a bull first-rate of his kind, who gained the first 

 prize against three good animals.'' He was out of 

 Lady, bred by Mr. Beattie from Lady Keir of Mr. 

 Keir's breed at Potholm. His daughter Bridesmaid 

 was also first in the cow class, beating the Duke of 

 Buccleuch's M'^Gill, and she can be traced back 

 through two generations to the Palmer cow. Mr. 

 Beattie is still well known as a tup breeder, and keeps 

 from five to six score of ewes, and sells his tups pri- 

 vately into Ireland, Cheshire, Lancashire, and Cuui- 

 berland, as well as in Dumfriesshire. He has used 

 Polwarth ranas, and a half-brother to Mr. Sanday's 

 first prize at Carlisle did a great deal for him. 



