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the Highland Society at Berwick. Hanton was got by Pat 

 29, bred by Mr Watson, Keillor (a son of Old Jock 1 and 

 Favourite 2), and out of Lizzie 227, whose sire, Spencer's 

 Son 154, was a grandson of Panmure 51. Mr M'Combie 

 in using him, therefore, was able, at the same time that he 

 continued the blood of Angus 45, to infuse more of the 

 Panmure blood among his stock. Hanton got a great 

 many excellent calves, and he was used with especial 

 success on the Angus 45 cows, the most noteworthy pro- 

 duce being Charlotte's three daughters the invincible 

 Pride of Aberdeen 581, Empress of France 578, and 

 Daisy of Tillyfour 1165. 



It is very instructive and interesting to observe Mr 

 M'Combie's next step in breeding. Hanton gave a 

 diluted reinfusion of Panmure blood, and so satisfied 

 does Mr M'Combie seem to have been with the result, 

 that he altered in practice the principle he had laid down 

 that in-and-in breeding should be abandoned after the 

 type is developed. We have stated that the cow Windsor 

 202 was the closest of the in-bred daughters of Queen 

 Mother. Mr M'Combie bred from her in 1856 the 

 splendid bull Windsor 221, after Hanton 228. He was 

 not then in need of a stock sire, Hanton being still in 

 use, so Windsor 221 was sold to Mr Brown, Westertown. 

 In 1858 the cow Windsor 202 calved, to Hanton, 

 Kob Eoy Macgregor 267, and this full brother of Windsor 

 221 was the animal Mr M'Combie selected to succeed 

 Hanton. It will have been gathered from our remarks 

 that Eob Eoy Macgregor had not the violent Angus 45 

 cross. He was used in the herd with much success, and 

 was followed by his son Black Prince of Tillyfour 366, 

 who was out of Maid of Orleans 580 (a daughter of 

 Bloomer 201 and Hauton), and also without the Angus 

 45 cross. We believe Black Prince of Tillyfour to have 

 been one of the most impressive bulls bred by Mr 

 M'Combie. By the successive use of Hanton, his son, 

 Eob Eoy Macgregor and Eoy Eoy Macgregor's son, Black 



