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Aberdeen that year, where she also gained the Challenge 

 Cup. She was the second-prize cow at Paris in 1878. 

 Mr M'Combie bred from her Sybil 2nd of Tillyfour 3526, 

 who was second-prize yearling heifer at Edinburgh in 

 1877, first at Aberdeen that year, a member of the Paris 

 group, and, passing into the possession of Mr Adamson, 

 Balquharn, gained the first prize as a cow at Kelso, Car- 

 lisle, and Aberdeen in 1880, as well as the Challenge Cup 

 and the M'Combie prize at the Eoyal Northern show. In 

 Mr Adamson's possession she produced, among other calves, 

 the heifer Sybil 4th 4326, who carried the first prize as a 

 yearling to Lord Strathmore at the Highland Society's show 

 in 1881. Sybil 1st was sold to the Earl of Airlie for 110 

 guineas, and Sybil 2nd to Lord Southesk for 180 guineas. 

 At the Tillyfour and Balquharn sales, six animals of Mr 

 Eeid's Syloil family were sold at an average of about 100 

 each. The sort is now represented at Kinnaird, Cortachy, 

 Glamis, Haddo House, and Guisachan. Isla, the other calf 

 of Fancy 1948, was retained by Mr Keicl. She gained the 

 first prizes as a cow at the Highland Society and Eoyal 

 Northern shows in 1878, and second at Carlisle in- 1880, 

 while she and three of her daughters made the very 

 pretty group that won the first prize at Aberdeen in 1881. 

 Isla has bred extremely well, her calves inheriting their 

 dam's true form, substance, and quality. Another early 

 purchase by Mr Eeid was the heifer Matilda from Mr 

 Dunn, Nether Ennenter, Leochel. In 1862 this animal 

 to President 4th produced Kate of Baads 1947. Kate's 

 calf in 1872 was Prince Albert 2nd 745, a first-prize bull 

 at Aberdeen, and second at the Highland Society's shows. 

 In 1873 she bred Halt 3525, who, after winning the second 

 prize as a yearling heifer at the Highland Society's show 

 in 1874, was, as already remarked, sold to Mr M'Combie 

 of Tillyfour, in whose possession she bred Halt 2nd 3527, 

 who was the first-prize heifer at Paris in 1878, and a 

 member of the Tillyfour champion group, which thus con- 



