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CHAPTER Vm. 



EXTINCT HERDS — CONTINUED. 



(1) The AVestertown 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. — (2) 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 7i3 — 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. — (3) The 

 Ardgay herd : The Zara tribe — Fair Maid of Perth 313, and Mayflower 

 314 — The Honourable Charles Carnegie's recollections of the Ardgay 

 stock. 



Westertown. 



Ar Westertown, Fochabers, a herd of polled cattle was 

 owned by the late Mr George Brown's father about half a 

 century ago, and animals exhibited from it gained prizes 

 at the early shows of the Morayshire Farmers' Club. In 

 1853 Mr John Brown gave up to his son, Mr George 

 Brown, the entire management of the farm. The Wester- 

 town herd may thus, for all practical purposes, be said to 

 date from that year. When the herd was dispersed in 

 1874, it consisted of five families. These were the Eoses, 

 tracing from Marion 308 (calved in 1855, by the Tillyfour 



