230 EXISTING SCOTCH HERDS. 



sort, was acquired at the Eothiemay sale last year. The 

 chief stock sire was Saracen 1689, out of the Champion 

 cow Sybil 2d 3526, and after the Queen bull Dragon 1178. 

 After being used several seasons in the herd, Saracen was 

 sold at a high price to the Earl of Southesk. 



Gavemuood. 



Mr Hannay, Gavenwood, near Banff, factor for the Earl 

 of Eife, has been closely associated with the improvement 

 of the polled breed during the last twelve years. Under 

 his active and judicious superintendence, the celebrated 

 Duff House herd was collected and brought to the eminent 

 position which it shortly came to occupy. The late Earl 

 of Fife having limited the extent of his home farm, a 

 portion of the herd was acquired by Mr Hannay ; and 

 from a similar cause, the remainder of the herd, then 

 owned by the present Earl of Fife, was also a few. years 

 later taken over by Mr Hannay. In a former chapter we 

 furnished an account of the Duff House herd, and it is 

 therefore unnecessary in this place to repeat the informa- 

 tion given regarding the materials on which the herd was 

 based, and its leading achievements. It will be observed 

 that the Duff House herd comprised specimens of most of 

 the principal tribes of the breed, and several of the most 

 famous animals produced in recent years. For convenience 

 we shall date the separate existence of the Gavenwood 

 herd from 1876, as in that year Mr Hannay himself first 

 appeared prominently as an exhibitor, winning, at the 

 Aberdeen show of the Highland Society, the first prizes 

 for yearling bulls and two-year-old heifers. Among the 

 more renowned animals then or subsequently in Mr 

 Hannay 's possession, a few may be noted. Young Viscount 

 736, of the Erica tribe, and first-prize bull in the yearling 

 two-year-old and aged classes at Highland Society's shows, 

 imparted character to the herd, and was used in it for 



