222 EXISTING SCOTCH HEEDS, 



East Town. 



Mr James Farquharson's herd at East Town, Tarland, 

 was established prior to 1822. No ' Herd Book ' being then 

 in existence, pedigrees were not kept. The oldest strain 

 now represented is that tracing through Patricia 1606, 

 calved in 1856, and bred by Mrs M'Combie at East Town, 

 to Jess, also bred there. Jess, Patricia, and Beauty 1608, 

 all of this family, bred until they were about twenty years 

 of age, and they were a robust, useful lot of cattle. Among 

 "the bulls used in the herd were Banks of Don, bred by Mr 

 Walker, Ardhuncart, the sire of Patricia ; a bull from Mr 

 Bowie, Mains of Kelly; Duke, bred by Mr Paterson, 

 Mulben ; Commodore 490, bred by the Earl of Southesk, 

 after the splendid Queen sire Windsor 221, and out of 

 Kalliope 1234 ; Prince of East Town 435, bred at Tillyfour ; 

 Lord Kelly 511, bred by Mr Bowie, Mains of Kelly, got by 

 Victor of Kelly 353 ; Wallace of Tillyfour 683, bred by 

 Mr M'Combie after Clova 517, and out of Euth 1169 ; 

 Baron Settrington 356, bred at Westertown, after March 

 355, and out of Duchess of Westertown 927 (he was twice 

 first at Highland Society's shows); Osman 1531, and 

 Haddo 2nd 1532, sons of Archbishop 787, bred by the Earl 

 of Aberdeen ; and Heir-Apparent 1263, bred at Tillyfour 

 after Gainsborough 3rd 598, and out of Pride of Aberdeen 

 10th 3250. The last named is the present stock sire. 

 Among the cows added to the herd were Mary 4th 1260, 

 bred by Mr Bowie, Mains of Kelly ; Victoria 4th 908, bred 

 at Mains of Kelly, a prize heifer of the Victoria branch of 

 the Queen tribe; and Lady Forbes 1993, bred by General 

 Forbes of Inverernan, out of Sylph 1774, of the Queen tribe. 

 The chief families in the herd are the Patricias, the Vic- 

 torias, and the Lady Forbes's. Braes o' Mar 715, bred at 

 East Town, descended from Patricia, was the sire of the 

 well-known prize-winner Sir Maurice 1319. Sales have 

 been made to various Scotch breeders, and some animals 



