100 NOTES ON SOME EARLY POLLED CATTLE. 



aldy in Ireland in 1847, he should have again turned up in 

 Mr Watson's . possession in 1852, and gained the sweep- 

 stakes at the Perth show of the Highland Society that 

 year. 



In the foregoing analysis of the recorded pedigrees and 

 statements in the ' Herd Book ' as to Old Jock 1 and 

 Grey-breasted Jock 2, we have hinted at several obvious 

 contradictions. We have made minute inquiries into the 

 facts, and have compared the entries in vol. i. with — 

 (1) published letters from Mr William Watson, son of Mr 

 Hugh Watson; (2) letters addressed to the authors, in 

 response to applications for information, by Mr Thomas 

 Ferguson, Kinnochtry, Coupar-Angus, a contemporary of 

 Mr Hugh Watson, and well acquainted with his stock ; (3) 

 Mr Hugh Watson's sale catalogue at Auchtertyre in 1853 ; 

 (4) catalogues of the early shows of the Eoyal Agricultural 

 Society of Ireland ; (5) extracts furnished to us by the 

 recorder of the Highland Society, Mr Thomas Duncan, of 

 the original entries of the Keillor bulls exhibited at the 

 shows of the Highland Society ; and (6) the private cata- 

 logue of the Tillyfour herd, dated 1850. We annex a 

 summary of the information gleaned from the evidence of 

 these authorities. It has been deemed advisable, so as to 

 make the statement as clear as possible, to give all that 

 we have been able to ascertain regarding the whole of the 

 bulls known as Jocks that were at Keillor, and to arrange 

 them in chronological order : — 



(1.) The first Jock used at Keillor was the bull Taenty 

 Jock, calved in 1806, and purchased by Mr Hugh Wat- 

 sou at the Trinity Muir market, Brechin, in 1808. He is 

 not entered in the ' Herd Book.' 



(2.) The SECOND Jock was after Tarnty Jock, and out of 

 one of the cows which Hugh Watson received from his 

 father, William AVatson, in 1808. This bull is not entered 

 in the ' Herd Book.' 



(3.) The third Jock, named Black Jock, was after Jock 



