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native cattle are valued for beef. Ayrshire cattle have been 
introduced into the province in large numbers for dairy farming. 
Sir David Dunbar of Baldoon was the first man in Wigtown- 
shire, “ perhaps,’’ says Sir Andrew Agnew, “the first in Scot- 
land, to rear cattle on a large scale for the English market.”’ 
‘In this parish of Kirkinner,’’ says Andrew Symson, the author 
ot A Large Description of Galloway’’ written in 1684, “ Sir 
David Dunbar of Baldone hath a park, about two miles and an 
halfe in length, and a mile and an halfe in breadth ; the greatest 
part whereof is rich and deep valley ground, and yeelds ex- 
cellent grass. . . . This park can keep in it, winter and 
summer, about a thousand bestiall, part whereof he buys from 
the countrey, and grazeth there all winter, other part whereof is 
of his owne breed; for he hath neer two hundred milch kine, 
which for the most have calves yearly. He buys also in the 
summer time from the countrey many bestiall, oxen for the most 
part, which he keeps till August or September; so that yearly 
he ether sells at home to drovers, or sends to Saint Faiths, 
Satch, and other faires in England, about eighteen or twentie 
score of bestiall.’’ 
The Galloway pippin, the last of the products to be men- 
tioned now, came, says MacKerlie, from the orchard of the 
friary at Wigton. “Over one hundred years ago,’’ he says, 
“two trees, then about a century old, remained, from which 
grafts were sent to all parts.’’ The fruit was a very fine apple, 
and became known in England as the Galloway pippin. It 
was, no doubt, introduced by the friars. 
The Early History of the Corries of Annandale— 
A Further Contribution. 
By R. C. Ret of Mouswald Place. 
Professor Christopher Johnston, in this valuable notice 
of the “* Early History of the Corries,’’* has scarcely omitted 
any references of importance. As, however, a pedigree chart 
of the family would be of assistance, it is given here, together 
* See Trans. D. and G. Nat. Hist. and Antiq. Soc., 1912-13, 
p. 86. 
