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CHAPTEE XII. 



EXISTING SCOTCH HEEDS — CONTINTJED. 



Glencorkie — Geetstonb — High prices for animals to New Zealand and 

 America — Guisachan — A fashionable herd in the far north — Splendid 

 collection of Queens — Charmer 2nd 1797, Dewdrop 2581, Heir of 

 Glory 1746, Witch of Endor 3528, Pride of Mulben 3rd 3249, Pride 

 of Aberdeen 18th 4321 — Haddo House — Hatton Castle — Mr Garden 

 Duff's good fortune with the Queens and Sybils — Haughton — The 

 Leochel Lass family — Hill of Skilmapillt — Hillockhead — Erica 

 3rd 1249 and Young Viscount 736 — Johnston — Destruction of the 

 herd by Pleuro-Pneumonia — Kinnaird — The Earl of Southesk, after 

 trying the "White Faces," returns to his first love — Ericas, Fannys, 

 and Sybils — Kinceaig — The breed in a trying climate — Kinnoohtey 

 — Mr Ferguson' spurchases from Keillor — The Princesses, Baronesses, 

 Emilys, and Favourites — Sires used at Kinnochtry — In-breeding on 

 the Keillor stock — Important sales to Scotch, Irish, and American 

 breeders — The Kinnochtry herd in the show-yard — Mains of Advie — 

 Success with Ballindalloch blood — The Advie Roses — Elcho 595, and 

 Juryman 404 — Mr Grant's system of breeding. 



Glencorrie. 



Me Peteie began a herd at Glencorrie, Duffitown, in 1876, 

 when he bought from Sir George Macpherson Grant the 

 cow Deveron Lass 1416, of the Eothiemay Miss Morrison 

 family, for 45 guineas, and from Mr Skinner, Drumin, the 

 two-year-old heifer Matrimony 2214, of the Lucy famUy, 

 for 60 guineas. Deveron Lass had previously suffered 

 severely from foot and mouth disease, which somewhat 

 disfigured her. Still she cost a good price, and her breeding 



