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stimulating improvement in stock-breeding. He was a 

 breeder of Shorthorns as well as 1 of polled cattle ; and of 

 the " red, white, and roan," he purchased specimens from 

 Mr Bates of Kirklevington. His chief attention was, how- 

 ever, devoted to the native polled breed, and he kept herds 

 at Bognie and Montblairy. The Bognie herd was dispersed 

 in 1874, on Mr Morison's death. Here also the records 

 had been imperfectly kept. The herd was composed of 

 members of four families : the Hawkhalls, which had been 

 at Bognie for over thirty years ; the Beautys, which had 

 been there for over twenty years ; the Corskies, descended 

 from Mr G. G. Robinson's stock ; and the Miss Carnegies, 

 descended from a heifer bought at Captain Carnegie's sale 

 at Craigo. The bull Odin 153,, bred by the Earl of South- 

 esk, after Cup-Bearer 59, and out of Octavia 331, of the 

 Keillor Favourite tribe, gave a decided stamp to the herd, 

 which was continued by the use of a succession of his 

 descendants. Innocent 502, of the Portlethen Ida family, 

 was used, as was also Major 444, bred at Castle Eraser. 

 At the dispersion, the chief purchasers were the Earl of 

 Eife ; Mr Grant, Methlick ; Mr Macgregor, Kincraig ; and 

 Mr Adamson, Balquharn. 



Fernyflatt. Fernyflatt was long a famous name in con- 

 nection with polled cattle. It was there that Mr Hector 

 bred the bull Hector, sire of the celebrated Panmure 

 51. Mr Glennie succeeded Mr Hector in the farm, and 

 on the dispersion of the herd in 1876, on the death of 

 the former, it was possible to point to the existence of a 

 polled herd at Eernyflatt for forty years. Pedigrees had 

 not been carefully kept, but the purity of the stock was 

 undoubted. Females had been introduced from Balwyllo, 

 Crathes, and Portlethen, and the best herds of the district 

 had supplied sires. The first animal in the catalogue was 

 Princess of Easter Tulloch 1026, from Mr Ferguson's Prizie 

 586. She was bought by Mr Ferguson, Ballunie. The 



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