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guineas. The bulls used have been Moudiewort 686, bred 

 at Tilly four, after Jim Crow 3rd 350, and out of Charmer 

 1172, of the Queen tribe; M.P. 1250, bred at Johnston, 

 after Moudiewort 686, and out of Pride of Aberdeen 3rd 

 1168 ; and A.K.H.B. 1576, also bred by Mr Pearson, got 

 by Young Viscount 736, and out of Heather Blossom 1703. 

 The herd usually comprised from fifteen to twenty cows, 

 and among those in it in May last, when Mr Pearson gave 

 us our information, were Pride of Aberdeen 17th 4078, a 

 choicely-bred Pride; Heather Blossom of Johnston 2nd, 

 out of Heather Blossom 1703, and after M.P. ; Ada 3553; 

 Levity of Johnston, after Prussia 900, and out of Levity 

 5th 3554; Annie 1212, and various of her descendants, 

 specially Annie 4th 4868 ; Inchgarth 2061, and several of 

 her offspring; Lizzie 4th 4867; and Lucy 2nd 1186. 

 Private sales have been made of animals to go to various 

 parts of Scotland, England, and Ireland, one bull to 

 Germany, and some heifers to America. Stock frpm the 

 herd have been exhibited only at the Kincardine county 

 show, where prizes have been won, Ada having been twice 

 first as a cow, and Inchgarth once. Since writing the 

 foregoing we regret to learn that pleuro pneumonia got in 

 amongst the Johnston herd. Several valuable animals 

 had to be killed in consequence of the disease, and the 

 whole herd was ultimately slaughtered in June last. Mr 

 Pearson has the heartfelt sympathy of every breeder of 

 polled cattle in the extermination of his valuable herd, the 

 result of many years' careful breeding. 



Kinnaird. 



After the fatal rinderpest in 1865, referred to in chapter 

 vi., the Earl of Southesk abandoned rearing the native 

 breed of the county, feeling that he could not replace the 

 stock he had lost except by the expenditure of a larger 

 amount of time, energy, and money than he felt equal to 



