172 EXTINCT HERDS. 



others of note. In 1873 a very important addition was 

 made. In that year a bull-calf was bought from Mr Duff, 

 Hillockhead, Glass. The bull was called Young Viscount 

 736, and his fame has travelled wherever the polled breed 

 is known. A specimen of the Ballindalloch Erica family, 

 he was shown as a yearling at the Highland Society's 

 show at Inverness in 1874, as a two-year-old at Glasgow 

 in 1875, and in the aged class at Aberdeen in 1876, and on 

 each occasion he gained the first prize. He subsequently 

 gained the challenge cup and the M'Combie prize at the 

 Royal Northern at Aberdeen, and having been sold to Sir 

 George Macpherson Grant for 225 guineas, won for him the 

 first and champion prizes at. the International show at Kil- 

 burn in 1879. He was used in the Duff House, Gavenwood, 

 and Ballindalloch herds with excellent results. In 1874, 

 at the Inverness show of the Highland Society, the bull 

 Gainsborough 596, who had won the first prize there, was 

 acquired from Mr Bowie, Mains of Kelly. The second- 

 prize bull at this show, John Bright 642, bred at Bognie, 

 was also used in the herd. 



With such fine material, and under able management, 

 the Duff House herd came rapidly to the front. From 

 1872 to 1877 it supplied many of the Highland Society's 

 prize-winners. The greatest success was achieved in 1876 

 at the National Society's meeting at Aberdeen, where there 

 was an unusually grand display of polled cattle. Lord 

 Fife was then first for aged bulls with Young Viscount 

 736 ; first for two-year-old bulls with St Glair 1160 ; very 

 highly commended for the yearling bull Gladiolus 1161 ; 

 first for cows with Innes 1934 ; fourth for cows with Pa- 

 tience 1932; very highly commended with Blackbird 1704; 

 commended with Crocus 1400 ; and second for two-year- 

 old heifers with Maria 2nd 3015. As we have said, the 

 herd was valued over to Mr Hannay, Gavenwood, and 

 a notice of its subsequent progress will be found under 

 the heading "Existing Herds." 



