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Drumin. The herd took a high place at the shows of the 

 Spey, Aven, and Fiddichside Farmers' Club, instituted in 

 1856, two of Mr Robertson's prize heifers at these shows 

 going to Drumin, where one of them, Princess 950, founded 

 a valuable family. In later years much of the Erica blood 

 was infused by the use of males of that strain, and at the 

 Garline sale in 1874, Mr William Eobertson acquired two 

 Erica females, Ella 1205 and Editha 1737. Apart from 

 these Ericas, the most valuable family in the Burnside 

 herd was the Honestys, a branch of the Drumin Lucy 

 family. These were remarkable milkers, old Honesty 

 1690 having yielded as much milk as any other two cows 

 in the herd. On leaving Burnside for Aberlour Mains, 

 Mr William Robertson sold the bulk of his herd in 

 May 1880, when 31 animals averaged 28, 7s. 8d., 16 

 cows making an average of 32, 7s. A new herd was 

 begun at Aberlour Mains. The herd, of which the nucleus 

 was descendants of the Ericas bought at Garline, and 

 Honestys bred at Drumin, now comprises Georgina 3893, 

 descended from the late Mr Robertson's cow Princess 950, 

 sold in 1862 to Mr Skinner; Delilah 3894, bred at Inver- 

 allan, of the Drumin Lucy family, and her three-year-old 

 daughter Rose of Aberlour 4845, by the Erica bull Egbert 

 1443 ; Honesty 3rd 3754, Helena of Aberlour 4849, Hon- 

 nesty 6th 4848, and Hetty 4844, these four of the Honesty 

 branch of the Lucy family; Jewel 1413, of the Jilt family; 

 Edma Erica 3759, of the Erica family ; Heatherbells, of 

 Drumin blood; Young Favourite 3rd 3533, of Kinnoch- 

 try blood ; and Duchess of Burnside 3762, descended 

 from Old Grannie 1. Several other good families are 

 represented, and the younger stock are after the Erica 

 bull Whig 1867; Souter Johnny 1615, bred at Drumin; 

 Moraystown 1439, a son of Adrian 2nd 622 arid Forget- 

 me-not 1685 ; and the Erica bull Egbert 1443. One of the 

 sires now in use is Paris 1473, the first-prize two-year-old 

 at the Paris Exhibition. In collecting his new herd, Mr 



