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CHAPTER XIII. 



EXISTING SCOTCH HEEDS — CONTINUED. 



Mains of KElLY^Oldest existing pedigree herd — Founded in 1809 or 1810 

 — Mr Bowie's system of breeding — The Jenny, Martha, Lizzie, Ardestie, 

 Jennet, Guinea Pig, Victoria, and Wattie families — Celebrated bulls 

 bred at Mains of Kelly — Cupbearer 59, Hanton 228, Logie the Lairds, 

 Majors, Jim Crows, Victors, etc. — Melville — Dandys, Prides, and 

 Mayflowers — Methlick — The Mabel branch of the Pride family — 

 MiNMOKE — Montbletton — Commenced in 1831 — The late MrEobert 

 Walker and the tenant of Wester Fintray — The Victoria, Charlotte, 

 Mayflower, and Isiibella families — Sires used — Fame of the Mayflowers 

 — MoNTCOFFEK — MoRLiCH — The Windsor branch of the Queen tribe 

 — PiTFOUE — Logie the Laird 3rd 862 — Pitgair — Poetlethen — 

 Established about 1818 — The early animals in the herd — The Nackets 

 and Brown Mouths — Families now represented — The Mayflowers, 

 Miss Scotts, Lucys, Fannys, Nightingales, Livelys, Pansys, Julias, 

 Idas, Madges, etc. — Bulls used in the herd — Poktmoke — Poweie — 

 Easter Tulloch Mayflowers — Madge of Portletheu 1217, and Monarch 

 1182. 



Mains of Kelly. 



The oldest existing pedigree herd of polled cattle is 

 that belonging to Mr Alexander Bowie, Mains of Kelly, 

 Arbroath, and few have been more instumental in improving 

 the breed. Mr Bowie gives us the following account of 

 the foundation of his herd : " The herd was formed by my 

 father in 1809 or 1810, by the purchase of the cow Boy- 

 sack from Mr Henry Lindsay Carnegie of Kimblethmont, 

 Arbroath. My father, when he came from Cockpen, near 

 Dalkeith, at once took a liking to the Uacksldiis, and 



