BALWYLLO HERD THE PRINCESS FAMILY. 157 



bought one or two very good animals. They, however 

 fell victims to the rinderpest, and since then no pure stock 

 has been kept at Balwyllo. Previous to the final disper- 

 sion in 1863, the trustees had a large draft-sale on the 

 termination of the lease of the farm of Powis, on the 

 Southesk estate, and it is to the descendants of the ani- 

 mals sold at these sales that we must now look for the 

 blood of this fine herd. 



The characteristics of the herd in my memory were 

 great size and fleshiness, and very early maturity, which 

 made the Balwyllo yearlings always very hard to beat in 

 the show-yard. There was, however, a slight tendency to 

 coarseness in the bone, or unlevelness of flesh, as they 

 grew up, and a slight roughness of hair, especially in the 

 males, which detracted from the general sweetness in ap- 

 pearance of many of the mature animals. 



T will note in detail, as far as my memory serves me, 

 some of the most remarkable animals, taking them, for 

 convenience' sake, in families : 



The Princess Family. This family descended from 

 Princess 47 must not be confounded with the Kinnochtry 

 family of the same name, although, curiously enough, there 

 is a descent in the male line of the latter family from the 

 former. The foundress of the family, Princess 47, was 

 bred by the late Mr Euxton, Farnell, and was got by the 

 celebrated Panmure 51. Princess herself was a consider- 

 able prize-taker, and I have always heard her spoken of as 

 a very handsome cow, and free from the defects I have 

 mentioned as sometimes to be seen in the Balwyllo cattle. 

 From Princess 47 were bred three bulls, all of whom were 

 used in the herd, one being Stanley 52, by Joseph 53, a 

 Balwyllo-bred bull, and the other, President 205, by the 

 Keillor-bred Adam 39. I have no recollection of Stanley, 

 but I have seen President 205, though I have no further 

 memory of him than that he was handsome. He was a 

 very successful prize-taker, as will be seen from the record 



