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brindled cow in it, and, in many, a dun or a grey. Those 

 of the latter colour were called " droners," and were sup- 

 posed to have a strain of Dutch blood in them, by descent 

 from some cows brought over by a Dutch company that 

 attempted to reclaim the basin of Montrose. Mr Car- 

 negie remembers, especially, grey cows belonging to the 

 late Mr Lyall, Old Montrose ; the late Mr Ruxton, Far- 

 nell ; and the late Mr Mustard, Leuchland. The Kin- 

 naird herd in 1840 had no grey cows, but the brindled 

 cow Brandy is one of Mr Carnegie's earliest recollections. 

 She was a very great favourite of the late Sir James 

 Carnegie, who used to say that she was the handsomest 

 Angus cow in the byre, except Lady Anne. She was of a 

 regular brindled colour, red striped with black, and had 

 very large hairy ears. A daughter of hers was pure red, 

 but not being a good milker, was not retained. There are 

 no traceable descendants of this cow. In 1840 there were 

 the following polled cows in the byre at Kinnaird : Old 

 Lady Anne 743, of whom more afterwards; Lucy 670 

 (misnamed " of Craigo " in the ' Herd Book,' she having 

 nothing to do with that place), bought as a calf from the 

 late Mr Lyall, Old Montrose, then at Carcary; Brandy, 

 the brindled cow mentioned above ; Charlotte, Margaret, 

 Jane, and Mary. Jane died in 1840, and the other ones, 

 without 'Herd Book' numbers, have left no traceable 

 descendants. The cattleman, however, had a dun-coloured 

 cow called Beauty. She was the dam of Beauty 96, also 

 of a dark-dun colour, and of a black cow entered in the 

 ' Herd Book ' as Angus 95. 



The only addition made to the herd by Sir James, except 

 the descendants of the above, was in 1846, when the cow 

 Sarah 140 was bought from the late Mr Lyall, Old Montrose. 

 The bulls used were Colin 35, calved in 1840, after the 

 Old Montrose bull Wattle 135, and out of Lucy 670. As 

 a yearling, he beat the celebrated Panmure 51 at the local 

 show ; but the style of keeping he afterwards got was not 



