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purchased the best black bull he could find. This bull he 

 mated with the cow Boysack, who, by the way, was 

 thoroughly dodded, although she had a little white on her 

 belly." Under the entry of the cow Lady Margaret 40, in 

 vol. i. of the ' Herd Book,' the line of breeding pursued 

 by Mr Bowie is very succinctly described : " Lady Margaret 

 40 and Jenny 55 were selected by Mr Bowie from his 

 father's well-known herd (originated about 1810) ; and by 

 breeding from the Old Jock 1 strain of blood and Panmure 

 51, some of the best stock bred at Mains of Kelly have 

 been originated." The Old Jock strain was obtained in two 

 forms, first by the purchase of Pat 29, bred by Mr Hugh 

 Watson, after Old Jock 1, and out of Favourite 2 ; and by 

 the purchase of Old Favourite, the dam of Old Jock 1, at 

 the Keillor sale in 1848. The Panmure strain was intro- 

 duced by the purchase of Earl Spencer 24 at Mr Fullerton's 

 sale in 1844, and of Black Meg, the dam of Panmure 51. 

 Earl Spencer was a son of Panmure 51, and Milkaway cf 

 Ardestie 668. These then, briefly stated, were the chief 

 materials on which Mr Bowie has built up his herd. It 

 would be an endless task to mention all the celebrated 

 animals bred by Mr Bowie during his long career, and this 

 is the less necessary as unfortunately, owing to a protracted 

 struggle with rinderpest and pleuro pneumonia, the existing 

 representatives of the herd, although of great and wide- 

 spread influence, are comparatively few in number. Mr 

 Bowie's was one of the few large Forfarshire herds that 

 emerged from the desolating period of cattle plague; but 

 its owner suffered very severely, his stock having been 

 reduced from ninety-three to twenty-one. 



The fame of the Mains of Kelly herd has been chiefly 

 acquired by the large number of splendid sires produced 

 and used, with the most gratifying results, in it and other 

 stocks ; but before mentioning some of the more famous 

 bulls bred by Mr Bowie, we may first briefly note the 

 leading families that have been cultivated in the herd. 



