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up the strain on the male side. Purchases were early made 

 from Mr Malcolm, Bodiechell, who bred from the old 

 stock of Mr Walker, Wester Fintray, and from Mr 

 Farquharson Taylor, Wellhouse. From the former came 

 the ancestress of the Flower family, the cow being after a 

 son of the celebrated Keillor bull Angus 45, and from 

 the latter the Wellhouse family, tracing to a cow by 

 Panmure 51. The first bull used in the herd was Malcolm 

 of Bodiechell 269, twice second in the aged class at 

 Highland Society's shows. Other useful sires were intro- 

 duced ; and the milking-qualities of the breed being care- 

 fully developed, much good, far beyond the immediate 

 district, was done by stock from Fyvie. One of the most 

 famous animals bred in the herd was Sir Maurice 1319, of 

 the Flower family, well known in the Eothiemay herd. 

 The Fyvie herd was dispersed in 1881, when 32 head 

 averaged £30, 7s. 4d. The Earl of Southesk bought two 

 superior milking-eows of the Flower family at 89 and 88 

 guineas each. 



Tullochallum. — Mr Gordon, Tullochallum, started a 

 herd of pure-bred cattle about 1867, by purchasing a 

 bull and five heifers from Mr Skinner, Drumin. The 

 bull was Drumin 744, after the Pride sire Hero 400, and 

 out of Euby 951, of Mr Skinner's Beauty family. The 

 next bull used was Major of Tillyfour 509, of the Pride 

 family, being out of Pride of Aberdeen 581, and a half- 

 brother of Hero 400. Then came Knight of Aven 775, 

 of the Queen tribe, followed by Scotia 789, both bred at 

 Drumin ; Prince Albert 2nd 745, a prize bull out of Kate 

 of Baads 1947, and Lord Provost 1304, bred by Mr 

 Hannay. Among the females added were Fancy of 

 Tillyfour 2nd 1799, of the Pride family, whose twin- 

 daughters were sold privately to Sir William G. Gordon 

 Gumming ; Miss Macpherson 1252, of the Erica family, 

 out of Erica 3rd 1249, from Mr Duff, Hillockhead; a 



