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like to keep to their service, and were fed on barley 

 straw and water the most of a summer season, and 

 yet maintained condition rarely met with. I mention 

 this to show the good constitution of the race. Crinoline 

 204, out of Charlotte, was a sweet cow, and had white 

 legs, but was not quite so robust as some of the others. 

 Lola Montes 208 was an old cow before I saw her, and 

 was losing her shapes with a rheumatic leg. The cow 

 Windsor 202, like Bloomer, was a worker, and threw some 

 excellent stock. Pride of Aberdeen 581 was a very small 

 calf, and was not thought much of when a calf, until she 

 was weaned, as her mother, Charlotte, was not a great 

 milker. I had always a favour for the calf. One day 

 when Mr M'Combie and I were looking over her, he made 

 some not very favourable observation about her, and I said 

 I should not wonder although she were the Pride of Aber- 

 deen, which she was, at the summer show. Hence the 

 name and origin of this distinguished tribe. As she grew, 

 she turned the nearest 'to perfection in animal I ever saw, 

 but, like her mother, never was a great milker. She was 

 a good breeder of heifers, and a fine feeder, which was one 

 of the principal things I had to look to at that time. 

 Many of the rougher cows in the herd were far better 

 milkers, ancl some of these rough cows produced grand 

 bullocks. One cow, Lady Agnes, a big, rough, large- 

 quartered beast, was the mother of the celebrated ox, 

 Black Prince. Fair Maid of Perth 313, Kate of Aberdeen, 

 two Mayflowers, Nightingale 262, Beauty of Tillyfour 2nd 

 1180, and Jenny Lind, all run in my mind as first-class 

 cows. The Belle 205 was an instance of a free-martin 

 breeding, as she was a twin with a bull. She was a sweet 

 cow, and came out of the pleuro." 



It has sometimes been remarked that Mr M'Combie's 

 fame as a breeder rests chiefly on the fact that he was able 

 to send out a wonderful lot of females, and that he had 

 but little success as a breeder of bulls. This observation 



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