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rison, from the late General Hay of Eannes, and a bull 

 named Fintray 125, from the late Mr James Walker, 

 Wester Fintray, about the year 1846. The cows were very 

 large and strong. Their descendants have been regularly 

 retained and bred from, and in the ' Herd Book ' the pedi- 

 grees of the strains established by these fine animals trace 

 from Old Lady Jean 1 87, and Miss Morrison 833. Another 

 cow early added to the herd was Victoria of Glenbarry 

 534, calved in 1855, after Black Jock of Mulben 104. 

 She was acquired from her breeder, Mr Paterson, Mulben. 

 From Old Lady Jean the Eothiemay Georgina tribe has 

 sprung, through Georgina of Eothiemay 532, by Fintray 

 125, calved in 1852 ; from Miss Morrison the Eothiemay 

 family of that name descends, and a third family comes 

 from the Mulben cow Victoria of Glenbarry 534. This 

 then was the material on which Mr Tayler's fine herd has 

 been reared. For many years no females were added 

 besides those bred in it, and much of its success is due to 

 the careful selection of sires. At Mr M'Combie's sale 

 at Tillyfour in 1857, the bull Napoleon 257 was bought 

 for 40 guineas. Napoleon was out of Bloomer 201, a 

 daughter of Queen Mother 348, and after Hanton 228. 

 He was described by Mr M'Combie in the sale catalogue 

 as being " got by the best bull, and out of the best cow in the 

 world in the opinion of the exposer." Napoleon was also 

 individually a first-class animal ; he won the second prize 

 as a two-year-old at the Aberdeen show of the Highland 

 Society in 1858, and was used in the herd for a consider- 

 able time. The next sire used was Damascus 495, bought 

 when a calf at the Earl of Southesk's sale in 1861. After 

 the Queen bull Windsor 221, he was out of Deodora 1232, 

 of the Kinnaird Dora family. Damascus was a splendid 

 bull, and left excellent stock. By these two bulls some of 

 the best blood in the country was infused into the herd. 

 Napoleon was very strong in the Tillyfour Queen blood, 

 which was also continued by the sire of Damascus ; while 



