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Pride of Aberdeen 581, arid noticed elsewhere as the dam 

 of some capital stock. In calf when Mr Grant bought her, 

 she produced in May 1881 a heifer by the Pride bull 

 Knight of the Shire 1699. This calf is one of the purest- 

 bred Prides living, and promises to become an animal of 

 great merit. This year Eegina had a bull calf, after Young 

 Viscount 736. The stock bull is Viscount Duff 1365, grand- 

 son of the well-known Heather Blossom 1703, and after 

 Young Viscount 736. The herd is in excellent breeding 

 condition, in no way pampered, forcing for show-yard 

 purposes having been avoided. With scarcely an excep- 

 tion, each cow has a calf every year. Auchorachan is 

 situated about 900 feet above sea-level, and the thriving 

 state of the herd shows that the polled cattle will do well 

 where other breeds of a less hardy constitution could not 

 thrive. 



Baads. 



In recent years no herd of polled cattle has had a more 

 distinguished show-yard record than that of Mr George 

 Eeid, Baads, Peterculter. It supplied the first-prize cows 

 at the Highland Society's and Eoyal Northern Society's 

 shows in 1877, 1878, and 1880 ; the first-prize aged bull 

 at these shows in 1880 ; the winners of the Challenge 

 cups at Aberdeen in 1877, 1879, and 1880 ; the winners 

 of the M'Combie prize at Aberdeen in 1879 and 1880; 

 the first-prize heifer and the second-prize cow at the Paris 

 Exhibition in 1878 ; and the first-prize bull and the first 

 and second prize cows at the Eoyal English show at Car- 

 lisle in 1880. These animals were not all exhibited by 

 Mr Eeid, but they were either bred by him or descended 

 from his stock, and, moreover, they were all of two strains 

 of blood. This brief statement affords the most striking 

 proof it is possible to give of the excellent material of 

 which the Baads herd is composed. It is now nearly 

 twenty-eight years ago since polled cattle were introduced 



