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very much; but after full consideration, the practice of 

 giving no artificial food is strictly adhered to. The cattle 

 get just a moderate allowance of straw and turnips 

 nothing else. 



Kinnochtry. 



The herd of Mr Thomas Ferguson, now in Kinnochtry, 

 Coupar- Angus, was founded at Ash more about the year 

 1835. Between that year and 1839 Mr Ferguson received 

 several black polled cows from the stock of his father, the 

 late Mr Thomas Ferguson, who was then and had for years 

 been tenant of the farm of Clay what, near Bridge of Cally, 

 in the parish of Blairgowrie. The late Mr Ferguson had 

 got several of his cattle from the late Mr Chalmers of 

 Netherton of Claywhat. Among Mr Thomas Ferguson's 

 earliest recollections is his having seen Netherton's fine 

 black polled cattle, of which the owner and the people in 

 the district spoke as "Angus Doddies." The last Mr 

 Chalmers of Netherton, who died in 1855, said his father 

 had kept " Angus Doddies " as far back as he could 

 remember, and that his grandfather also kept them. As 

 long as Mr Thomas Ferguson recollects, there was also a 

 herd of polled cattle on the contiguous farm of Milton of 

 Drimmie. In fact, Mr Ferguson says the "Doddies " were 

 sixty years ago, and previous to that time, common enough 

 all over the district. -In addition to the cattle Mr Ferguson 

 thus obtained from his father, he occasionally bought in 

 the locality other polled cows and heifers, supposed to be 

 of about the same breeding. 



Mr Ferguson soon discovered that the Keillor cattle 

 were superior to those he had started with, and in 1839 he 

 bought from Mr Hugh "Watson the heifers Young Favourite 

 61, and Edinburgh 64, daughters of Old Grannie 1. 

 Shortly afterwards he got the cow Favourite 2 from Keillor, 

 and he then sold to Mr. Leslie, The Thorn, and others, the 

 specimens of his father's strains. For many years he had 



