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other cattle sold cheaply, the reward of Mr Hector's and 

 Mr Glennie's long-continued efforts being lost by the fact 

 that the herd records had been neglected. 



Garline. At Garline, Ballindalloch, Mr J. F. M'Gregor 

 bred polled cattle, and he had the good fortune to secure, 

 before the merits of the family were so widely recognised 

 as now, a specimen of the Ballindalloch Ericas. This was 

 Ella 1205, bred by Sir George Macpherson Grant, after 

 Kildonan 405, and out of Erica 843, the foundress of this 

 noted strain. At the dispersion of his small herd in 1874, 

 Sir George Macpherson Grant bought one of the Ericas, 

 Emma of Garline 1733. The other two, Ella 1205 and 

 Editha 1737, were acquired by Mr Robertson, then at 

 Burnside. 



Of other extinct polled herds simple mention must 

 suffice. Mr Lyell owned a very fine herd at Shielhill, de- 

 scended from the stock of Mr Mustard, Leuchland. From 

 it came the bulls Prospero 301 and Tom Pipes 302 (both 

 after the Kinnaird sire Mariner 148), who won high hon- 

 ours at the Highland Society's show at Perth in 1861, 

 and at the International show at Battersea in 1863. 

 Herds were also maintained by Mr Patrick Davidson at 

 Inchmarlo, at the dispersion of which, in 1857, Mr Pater- 

 son, Mulben, secured the foundress of one of his tribes ; by 

 Sir A. Burnett, at Crathes, in which there was a large 

 infusion of Keillor blood Mr Hugh Watson's Strathmore 

 5 having been used; by the Hon. Charles Carnegie at 

 Arratsmill, dispersed in 1868, after a struggle with 

 cattle-disease ; by Captain Carnegie at Craigo, from whom 

 Sir George Macpherson Grant and Mr Walker, Mont- 

 bletton, obtained some valuable animals at the sale in 

 1856 ; by the late Earl of Aberdeen, at Haddo House, 

 dispersed in 1861 ; by Mr Greig, at Middlethird, Strichen, 



