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sold to the agent for Senor Don Carlos Guenero, Buenos 

 Ayres, South America. These were the first of the breed 

 that were ever sent to South America. A year afterwards 

 the agent for the same gentleman bought one of the 

 Westertown Eoses. The herd at present numbers fifty 

 to sixty pure-bred animals, comprising six Virtues from 

 Easter Skene, eight Mysies from Tillyfour, ten Dianas 

 from Eothiemay, seven Panmures from Portlethen, three 

 Westertown Eoses, two Fyvie Flowers, four Pollys from 

 Easter Skene, and two Marthas from Mains of Kelly. 



Pitgair. 



The present herd at Pitgair, Gamrie, was founded by 

 Captain Beedie in 1865, by the purchase of Mayflower 

 2376, and other two polled cows, Mary and Polly, at the 

 displenish sale of his predecessor in the farm, Mr Sangster, 

 who had kept a black polled herd exclusively for at least 

 eighteen years previous to 1865, as he appears from the 

 records of the Highland Society to have been an exhibitor 

 at the show in 1847. Unfortunately, as in many of these 

 earlier herds, no record of pedigrees was made down to the 

 time that the animals came into Captain Beedie's posses- 

 sion. The bull in use at Pitgair when the dispersion of 

 the herd took place in 1865, and the sire of two of the 

 cows above mentioned (Mayflower and Mary), was Pitgair 

 952, bred by Mr Euxton, Farnell, after Lord Clyde 249, 

 and out of Eva 450, by President 2nd 54. Captain Beedie 

 has added since, the cow Dandy of Glenbarry 1075, of the 

 Drumin Lucy tribe, purchased at Mr. Tayler's sale at 

 Eothiemay in 1872, the winner the first prize at the 

 Highland Society's show at Perth in 1871, as a yearling 

 heifer; Ellen 3rd 2365, from Mulben, bought as a two- 

 year-old at the dispersion of that herd; Shevado Gem 

 3032, bought a calf at the dispersion of the Brucklay herd ; 

 Maiden 2nd 1743, bought at Mr Hannay's sale in 1877, 



