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" develop the type," and for that purpose resorted to the 

 mating of animals very closely related. He put Queen 

 Mother to Monarch 44, bred by Mr FuUerton, and ac- 

 quired by Mr M'Combie shortly after the Ardovie sale in 

 1844. Queen Mother, as we have already mentioned, was 

 after Panmure 51, and Monarch was not only a son of 

 Panmure, but also out of Julia 671, a daughter of Pan- 

 mure. Moreover, Julia was out of Susanna, a daughter 

 of Captain 97 and Black Meg 766. From this mating 

 of Queen Mother and Monarch came, in 1847, the heifer 

 calf Lola Montes 208, while another mating of Queen 

 Mother and Monarch resulted, in 1849, in the production 

 of Bloomer 201. Mr M'Combie then slightly varied his 

 system, only, however, in the direction of still greater 

 concentration of blood. Queen Mother was, in 1849, 

 put to Victor 46. Victor was a sou of Monarch 44, 

 and out of Jean Ann 206, a full sister of Queen Mother 

 348. Thus Queen Mother, Monarch, and Jean Ann were 

 all by Panmure. Those acquainted with such matters 

 will recognise that, by these alliances, the blood of Pan- 

 mure was nearly as much concentrated in the Tilly- 

 four herd as was that of Favourite 252 in the early 

 Shorthorn pedigrees of Charles and Eobert Colling. 

 There was certainly no degeneracy in the produce of 

 this very close cross between Victor and Queen Mother, 

 for the cow Windsor 202, who resulted from it, was one 

 of the most handsome as well as one of the best breeding 

 animals at Tillyfour. Notwithstanding her excellence, 

 however, Mr M'Combie evidently thought he had gone 

 far enough in the direction of in-breeding. 



In fact, it would appear as if he had considered that he 

 had gone too far, because, instead of, as might have been 

 expected, following up the use of Monarch and Victor on 

 the closely bred Panmure cows with a slightly diluted 

 out-cross, he next introduced into his herd a bull that, so 

 far as the 'Herd Book' shows, had no connection with 



