96 NOTES ON SOME EARLY POLLED CATTLE. 



"The bull Panmure 51, again, and as to his dam. 

 Neither \vas the price of this bull a bad investment. His 

 price at eighteen months old was 17, 17s. While Black 

 Meg of Ardovie was a great bearer of quey calves, this 

 bull was a great getter of males. I saw him stand as 

 winner of the third prize at Aberdeen with his two sons, 

 Monarch 44, and the Colonel, both bred by me, standing 

 beside their father Monarch having the first and Colonel 

 the second prize. Of course Panmure was by this time 

 some eight or nine years old, and so wanted to some ex- 

 tent the outline and sprightliness of a three or even a five 

 year old. Still, and to make allowance for the service he 

 had rendered, there would have been but small mistake, 

 if any, to have made his sons stand below him. I do not 

 think I have ever seen such a dashing three-year-old as he 

 was at Dundee in 1843. 



" As to Black Meg of Panmure, dam of the bull Pan- 

 mure, I think I only saw her once, and all I recollect of 

 her is that she had a large streaked udder, and, if I am 

 correct, was amazingly well ribbed ; also a very strong 

 cow. Who the bull Panmure's father was I am not 

 certain." 



These most valuable communications from Mr Fuller- 

 ton still left one point uncertain viz., the sire of Pan- 

 mure 51. Mr Jamieson, in his indefatigable efforts to 

 procure reliable information, accordingly prosecuted his 

 inquiries further. He received from Dr Simpson of Mary- 

 kirk, in Kincardineshire, the following interesting letter, 

 which we have Mr Jamieson's permission to quote. The 

 letter is dated September 30, 1873, and reads : 



" As soon as I thought the harvest would be finished, I 

 went over to have an interview with David Fullerton, 

 who was grieve to the late Lord Panmure at Brechin 

 Castle, when the famous polled bull Panmure was calved. 

 David states that he was out of the cow Black Meg ; that 

 his sire was a black bull very like the calf himself, from 



