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besides winning many local honours. He also bought from 

 Sir George the Lady Fanny heifer Lady Fatima 3798, by 

 Elcho 595, thus, through Lady Fanny 971, by King Charles 

 236, getting the blood of Druid 225 and Kate 12. At this 

 time Lord Southesk heard that a very highly-pedigreed 

 bull, which had been sold as a calf to go to England, 

 was obtainable. He therefore decided to buy him from 

 character without seeing him, and disposed of His Grace 

 1721 to Mr Hugh Ferguson, for exportation to the Sand- 

 wich Islands. The bull thus bought back to Scotland was 

 named Kingmaker 1794. He was bred at Ballindalloch in 

 1879, after Elcho 595, and out of the Pride cow Kindness 

 of Ballindalloch 1412, who combines in her lineage two 

 streams of the Kinnaird Dora 333 tribe. When the bull 

 arrived he was a mere "bag of bones." A little more 

 condition, however, made him look more worthy of his 

 ancestry. Lord Kinnaird felt that his herd would not be 

 complete without going back to the old original Ejnnaird 

 blood, and he therefore bought the calf Blush Rose 4586 

 from Mr Walker, Portlethen. His lordship was so much 

 pleased with this scion of the old race, that he subsequently 

 obtained Blush Rose's mother, Bunch of Roses 3350, with 

 a heifer calf at foot by Matador 1710. These all trace 

 directly back to Old Lady Anne 743. Lord Southesk also 

 bought at the public sale at Aberdeen, from Mr Walker, 

 the cow Anemone 2269, of one of the very best old Bal- 

 wyllo families. At the same sale he bought, for use among 

 the dairy cows, a bull, bred by Mr Scott, Easter Tulloch, 

 who was named Llewellyn 1888. At the dispersion of Mr 

 Adam son's Balquharn herd, Lord Southesk acquired Sibyl 

 2nd of Tillyfour 3526, and her heifer calf Sappho Sibyl 

 5020. The price was high ; but Sibyl 2nd had the record 

 of having been the first-prize cow at Carlisle, Kelso, and 

 Aberdeen in 1880, and of having been awarded the 

 M'Combie prize as the best animal of the breed at the 

 last-named show. A few days later Lord Southesk bought 



