162 EXTINCT HERDS. 



The Keepsake Family. Keepsake 427 was bred at Bal- 

 wyllo. She was got by President 205, dam Mapsie 76, 

 who seems to have been of old Balwyllo blood, and to 

 have been also the dam of the bull President 2nd 54. 

 Keepsake was the broadest-backed cow for her height I 

 ever saw. This at first made her look a little out of pro- 

 portion, but she was (though perhaps wanting a little in 

 sweetness, and a trifle hard in the hair) a cow that you 

 always came back to, and her history shows that good 

 judges were not blind to her merits. Being lot 1 of the 

 Powis sale, she was sold very cheaply to me for 21 guineas. 

 I then transferred her to the Earl of Southesk, having, 

 as has already been explained, decided not to form a herd 

 at that time. She was sold at the Kinnaird sale two years 

 afterwards to Mr Collie, Ardgay, for 30 guineas. He after- 

 wards sold her to Mr M'Combie of Tillyfour for 40, and 

 in her seventeenth year she was sold in 18G8 to Sir George 

 Macpherson Grant for 27 guineas, with a bull calf at her 

 foot. With Keepsake's numerous descendants since she 

 left Balwyllo, I need say nothing here. At Balwyllo she 

 had three daughters Trial 228, by President 205, of 

 whom I know nothing; Edith 2nd 464, by Rob Eoy 56, 

 sold at the Powis sale as a yearling ;- and Euby 713, by 

 Noble 245, a large but somewhat rough cow, sold at the 

 sale in 1863 to Mr Walker, Portlethen, for 22 guineas. A 

 son of Euby 713, named Eudolph, by The Doctor 307, 

 was sold to Sir T. Gladstone for 24 guineas. He was a 

 fair animal, and probably some of the Fasque stock are 

 descended from him. 



The Annie Laurie Family. Annie Laurie 424, by 

 President 205, out of Jessamine 66, seems to have been 

 of the old Balwyllo strain, and I have some recollection 

 of seeing her as a good useful sort of an old cow. There 

 is one bull entered as out of her viz., Prince of Devon 

 315. She is also entered as the mother of three daughters. 

 Eosa of Balwyllo 438, by President 2nd 54, was an enor- 



