308 EXISTING SCOTCH HEEDS. 



Boghead 417. This bull, the second-prize yearling at tlie 

 show of the Eoyal Northern Agricultural Society in 1871, 

 left some good stock, especially females. The next sire 

 was Bob Lowe 633, bred at Wellhouse. He also left good 

 stock, particularly animals for the butcher. A son of his, 

 King of the Valley 965, won the third prize at the Eoyal 

 English show at Kilburn in 1879. The next sire was 

 Laird of Tilly four 956, bred by Mr M'Combie. After him, 

 Mr Anderson used Black Prince of Wellhouse 1312, who, 

 like Laird of Tillyfour, was a superior heifer getter ; and 

 Fitz Haughton 1563. Besides these sires, Mr Anderson 

 has obtained service of other bulls viz. Victor of Kelly 

 3rd 854, Duke of Fife 1592, and Knight of the Legion 

 1494. The splendid Pride bull Knight of the Shire 1699, 

 purchased for 165 guineas at the Balquharn sale in 1881, 

 has also been used in the herd, leaving excellent stock. 



There was bought at Tillyfour in 1874 the cow Ruth 

 1169, descended from the Keillor cow Favourite '2, and 

 after the Queen bull Black Prince of Tillyfour 366. She 

 was the dam of Madge 1217, the foundress of the leading 

 and most distinguished tribe in the Aboyne herd. Mr 

 Anderson has now more females of this family than any 

 other breeder. He has the old mother cow, who, although 

 seventeen years old, is as fresh and full of flesh as a ten- 

 year-old, and produced a fine calf this year to Knight of 

 the Shire. He has also two of her daughters better than 

 herself, a two-year-old granddaughter, two other females, 

 and a bull, as well as a nice lot of Ruth calves. This is 

 the chief strain in the herd. In 1878 Mr Anderson 

 bought from Mr Wilken, Waterside of Forbes, Fairy 

 Queen of Portlethen 889, of the Kinnaird Fanny tribe, 

 and he has several promising descendants of hers. The 

 other sorts in the herd have been long bred by Mr Ander- 

 son, and are not so remarkable for the production of show 

 animals as of cattle possessing satisfactory breeding, milk- 

 ing, and feeding qualities. The herd usually nu-mbers 



