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His first purchase was at the Easter Tulloch sale that year, 

 when he acquired the cow Alice of Methlick 1760, by- 

 Lord Southesk's Theodore 393. The same year at Drumin 

 he purchased Mary of Methlick 1761, after the Tillyfour 

 sire Disraeli 401, and out of Daisy 952, of Mr Skinner's 

 Lucy tribe. At Portlethen, in October 1874, Mr Grant 

 bought Jackdaw 1982, of Mr Walker's Julia family, and 

 the bull Lauderdale 671, after Melrose 382, bred at Castle 

 Eraser, and out of Louisa 658, tracing to the Ardovie 

 herd. Lauderdale was used for some years as stock sire. 

 At the Bognie dispersion in 1874, Mr Grant was a large 

 purchaser of representatives of the Greenskares and 

 Beauty tribes, full of the blood of Lord Southesk's Odin 

 153. At Eothiemay, in the autumn of 1875, Glenaven 

 1491, bred at Drumin, was added to the herd for 47 

 guineas. Mr Grant's most important purchase, however, 

 was at the Tillyfour sale in 1874, when he secured, as a 

 heifer calf, at 25 guineas, Mabel 1801, of the Pride tribe. 

 Mabel is after Bismarck 428, and is a grand-daughter of 

 Pride of Aberdeen 581. The heifer turned out a most 

 profitable investment, for Mr Grant now owns ten female 

 specimens of this valuable family. Mabel has been a very 

 true breeder. Her calves have likewise bred well, and are 

 remarkable for family type, being evenly fleshed, with 

 beautiful polled heads. They grow to large sizes, and are 

 very easily kept. As stock sire Lauderdale 671 was suc- 

 ceeded by Knight of Aven 775, bred at Drumin, out of 

 Dandy 949, of the Queen tribe. He cost 70 guineas at 

 the Brucklay dispersion. At the Tillyfour dispersion Mr 

 Grant bought the Pride bull Knight of the Garter 1763, 

 a son of Pride of Aberdeen 5th 1174, and of the Daisy 

 bull Dragon 1178. The herd has been drafted by sales at 

 Alford and Aberdeen, and a considerable lot was sold at 

 fair prices at Methlick in 1880. That year two heifers 

 were sold privately to Mr Taylor, Eeigate, near London, 

 for £30 each. In 1882 the Pride cow Mabel 3rd 3235 



