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communicated to us a note of the animals in his herd, he 

 had no fewer than 50 descendants of Keillor families, made 

 up as follows : 16 Princesses, 24 Baronesses, 7 Favourites, 

 and 3 Emilys. Not only is the bulk of the herd de- 

 scended from animals bred by Mr Hugh Watson, but the 

 sires used have also partaken largely of Keillor blood. A 

 short analysis of the pedigrees of Mr Ferguson's stock 

 bulls will show this clearly. The first three bulls used 

 Black Jock 3, Young Jock 4, and Hugh 130 were bred 

 by Mr Watson. The fourth, The Baronet 339, was, as we 

 have seen, of Keillor blood. In President 3rd 246, a very 

 judicious outcross was taken. This animal had in his veins 

 an almost equal proportion of Keillor and Ardovie blood. 

 Of the existing stock at Kinnochtry, his descendants are 

 confined to one strain in the female line, that tracing to 

 his daughter Princess of Kinnochtry 914, the foundress of 

 the Princess tribe ; but his blood has also been perpetuated 

 in a more modified form in the male line by Crathie Jock 

 340, out of Princess of Kinnochtry 914, his two sons, 

 Alfred of Kinnochtry 341, and Keillor 2nd 433, and Prince 

 of the Eealm 1695, a son of Princess of Kinnochtry 914, 

 all of whom were used in the herd. Young Hugh 131, 

 and Crathie 2nd 342, were of pure Keillor blood. The 

 President blood thus so skilfully and sparingly introduced, 

 has doubtless contributed to the preservation of the vigour 

 and health of this closely-bred herd. The two bulls Lord 

 Macduff 678, and Young Palmerston 982, failed perhaps 

 more on account of dissimilarity of blood than owing to 

 any individual deficiency. Scarcely any of their produce 

 were retained, and none of their blood has been spread 

 over the stock, so that their influence on the herd was 

 in a permanent sense infinitesimal. 



In Shah 680, Mr. Ferguson secured a bull marked by 

 personal excellence, a member of the most celebrated show- 

 yard tribe of the breed, and not entirely without connection 

 with the predominant strains in his own herd ; for while, 



