272 EXISTING SCOTCH HERDS. 



strong opinions regarding the impolicy of pampering cows 

 and heifers. 



A sale of polled cattle was held by Mr Bowie at "West 

 Scryne in 1857, when some very high prices were realized. 

 The average for twenty-four breeding animals was over £37, 

 and twelve three-year-old bullocks averaged £30, 16s. 8d. 

 At the joint sales the stock from Mains of Kelly have 

 always been in demand. At Aberdeen, in 1876, a Victoria 

 cow was sold for 106 guineas. Private sales have been 

 made to Hon. Mr Holmes, New Zealand ; Mr M'Combie 

 of Tillyfour ; the Earl of Southesk ; the Earl of Airlie; Mr 

 Smith of Benholm ; the Earl of Fife ; Colonel Ferguson of 

 Pitfour ; Mr Melville Cartwright ; Mr Farquharson, East- 

 Town ; Messrs Anderson & Findlay, Lake Forest, Chicago, 

 etc. The herd at present comprises 22 cows and heifers 

 and 2 bulls, exclusive of calves, which are very numerous. 



Melville. 



The Melville herd, belonging to Mr T. L. Melville 

 Cartwright, was started in 1871 by the purchase of a few 

 animals at Mr Leslie's sale at The Thorn, near Blair- 

 gowrie. These animals included the bull Colonel of 

 Castle Fraser 443, the third-prize yearling at the Hi^-h- 

 land Society's show that year. He afterwards gained 

 the first prize at the Scottish Midland show, and at the 

 Highland Society's show in 1872; and in 1873, at the 

 Highland Society's show at Stirling, he won the first prize 

 in the aged class. The animals acquired at The Thorn 

 were afterwards supplemented by the purchase, in 1873, 

 of a heifer Victoria 6th 1409 (bought privately from Mr 

 Bowie, Mains of KeUy), of the Queen blood, from whom 

 the Lily family at Melville is descended; and by some 

 purchases at the Westertown dispersion in 1874, including 

 the old cow Dandy 949, of the Empress branch of the 

 Queen family. In 1878 a purchase was made at the 



