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after so serious a rebuff of fortune. His lordship had seen 

 in England some admirable animals of the Hereford breed, 

 and decided to try the experiment as to how they would 

 do in Scotland. As far as concerned the breeding and 

 rearing of excellent stock, the Herefords were on the whole 

 a decided success, but there was little or no market for 

 bull calves, and it could not, in a herd of that value, pay 

 to rear steers. Lord Southesk therefore decided to give up 

 breeding altogether, sold the Herefords, and let the farm of 

 Haughs of Kiimaird. 



In the autumn of 1880 it became desirable that Lord 

 Southesk should himself occupy the farm of Greenden 

 instead of putting it into the market, and he then decided 

 to re-enter the field as a breeder of polled stock. He had 

 before this bought, at the Glamis sale, a pure-bred bull 

 calf Enterprise 1757, meaning to use him for his dairy 

 cows. As, however, this animal, though good in his way, 

 was not quite superior enough for the stock bull of the 

 sort of herd Lord Southesk decided to acquire, he was 

 sold at the spring sale in Aberdeen in 1881. The first 

 purchases for the new herd were made at the joint sale 

 of cattle belonging to Mr Hamilton of Skene and Mr 

 M'Combie of Easter Skene, at Aberdeen in 1880. Here 

 Lord Southesk purchased from the former the yearling 

 bull His Grace 1721, and the cows Lady Love of Corskie 

 3387, Pride of Skene 3193, and Vine 2nd of Skene 3398 ; 

 and from the latter, the cow Tibbie Fowler 4020, the two- 

 year-old heifers Lizzie Lindsay 4027 and Barbara Allan 

 4024, and the yearling heifer Tabitha 4585, a daughter of 

 Tibbie Fowler by Paris 1473. These were bought at very 

 moderate prices. Lord Southesk then being desirous of 

 reviving the old Kinnaird strains, purchased the Erica 

 cows, Erica 8th 3550, from Mr Grant, Auchorachan, Glen- 

 livet, and Echo 2976, from Sir George Macpherson Grant 

 of Ballindalloch, the latter having been the second-prize 

 cow at the Highland Society's show at Dumfries in 1878, 



