ii CONTENTS. 



and the Ballindalloch Ericas— Lord Southesk's Dora 333— Mr 

 Harry Shaw's Jane of Bogfern 540 — The Portlethen Pansys — List 

 of families descended from Keillor cows— Famous bulls bred at 

 Keillor— The Ardovie and Akdestie herds— Black Meg 766 

 — Panmure 51— The Tillyfour Queen tribe- Families tracing to 

 Ardovie stock— Earl o' Buchan 57— Mr Fullerton's losses by 

 pleuro-pneumonia— The Tilltfouk herd- Cows owned by Mr 

 M'Combie in 1850— Queen Mother 348, and her illustrious off- 

 spring — Mr M'Combie's system of breeding — Table showing de- 

 scendants of Queen Mother 348— The Pride of Aberdeen family— 

 Remarks on famous animals at Tillyfour— Mr M'Combie's un- 

 paralleled success in the show-yard — His public sales, . 107 



CHAPTER VIII. 



EXTINCT HERDS — continiced. 



The Westertown herd — Families reared by Mr Brown — Sires used 

 full of Panmure 51 and Queen blood — Mr Brown's method of 

 breeding — Loss by pleuro-pneumonia — Revival of the herd — Its 

 success in the show-yard — The Kinnaird herd — Its antiquity 

 — Description of the early polled cattle at Kinnaird — Cows in 

 the herd in 1840 — Remarks on tribes cultivated at Kinnaird — 

 Old Lady Anne 743 — The Floras, Formosas, and Fannys — The 

 Sarah and Beauty tribes extinct in female line — The Earl of 

 Southesk and his herd — His important purchases — Dora 333, 

 Kate 12, and Kathleen 339 — Cup-Bearer 59, and his show-yard 

 victories — Pride of Angus 176— Octavia 331— Emily 332, and her 

 daughter Erica — The bull Windsor 221 — Notes on the cattle 

 bred at Kinnaird — The fatal rinderpest, and extinction of the 

 herd — The Ardoay herd — The Zara tribe — Fair Maid of 

 Perth 313, and Mayflower 314 — The Honourable Charles Car- 

 negie's recollections of the Ardgay stock, . . . 132 



CHAPTER IX. 



extinct herds — concluded. 



The Balwtllo herd — Its characteristics — The Princess, Isabella, 

 Victoria, Keepsake, Annie Laurie, Emily, and other families — 

 The Mulben herd — Origin and progress — Sires used by Mr 



