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peting in the class of slots, a pair had to be exhibited for 

 the first fifty acres farmed, and for every other fifty acres 

 the competitor was bound to bring forward another stot." 

 There is in existence, we believe, an oil-painting of three 

 cows exhibited under the auspices of the East Forfar- 

 shire Association, one being a " rigged " cow belonging to 

 the late Mr James Black, Barrelwell, and the winner of 

 the first prize on the first occasion on which the Society 

 offered prizes for cows. 



It would seein that Lord Panmure had still been 

 anxious to try the effect of a fresh cross upon the Angus 

 cattle, for in 1838 or 1839 he commissioned his agent, Mr 

 Collier, Hatton, to select for him half-a-dozen of the best 

 polled Buchan heifers to be obtained. One of these 

 heifers, named Black Meg, and purchased from Mr Silver, 

 Netherley, Muchalls, on the Kincardineshire coast near 

 Aberdeen, became the dam of the celebrated bull Pan- 

 mure 51, whose sire was a bull named Hector, bred by Mr 

 Hector, Fernyflatt, Kincardineshire. Lord Panmure held 

 a public sale in 1841, when Mr William Fullerton pur- 

 chased the young bull Panmure 51. The dam of Pan- 

 mure 51 passed into the hands of Mr Bowie, Mains of 

 Kelly, and to him she produced the cow Mary, dam 

 of Mary of Kelly 2nd 1192, progenitrix of Mr Bowie's 

 Martha tribe, to which his race of bulls called Major be- 

 long. Another animal of Lord Panmure's breeding was 

 the cow exhibited by Colonel Dalgairns of Balgavies, at 

 the show of the Highland Society at Dundee in 1843, 

 where she gained the first prize. At that show Mr Ful- 

 lerton also headed the old bull class with Panmure 51, 

 and won the first prize for lots of three cows, in which 

 latter class he had strong competition from the Keillor, 

 Portlethen, Leuchland, and Wester Fintray herds. One 

 of Mr Fullerton's three cows was Dairymaid, bred by 

 Lord Panmure. It is interesting to note that descen- 

 dants of Colonel Dalgairns's first-prize cow at Dundee 



