322 EXISTING SCOTCH HEEDS. 



and Princess Dagmar Srd 3233, of the Matilda branch of 

 the Queen tribe, for 35 guineas. 



Eaasay. — Mr. Herbert Wood of Eaasay, Skye, started a 

 herd in 1880, by purchases at the Tillyfour dispersion. 

 The animals he then acquired comprised specimens of the 

 Pride of Aberdeen and Easter Tulloch Mayflower families. 



Buthven. — The herd here is one of the oldest in the 

 district, being descended from the Castle Newe stock. 

 Bulls have been introduced from Tillyfour, Mains of 

 KeUy, Auchlossan, and Aboyne Castle. A draft sale 

 was held in 1876, when an average of over £27 was 

 realized. 



Semiel. — At Semiel, Strathdon, a herd was started about 

 sixty-six years ago, by the purchase, by the grandfather of 

 the present tenant, Mr Scott, of two polled heifers from a 

 farmer in Suiefoot, Gartly, Aberdeenshire. At that time 

 most of the cattle in this outlying district of the county 

 were horned, and there was some difficulty in obtaining 

 the services of a polled bull. However, there happened 

 to be a polled buU at Castle Newe, and the heifers were 

 mated with him. No cows were added, the produce of 

 these heifers being retained, and served with good polled 

 sires. In 1864 some of the best animals were bought by 

 Mr Scott, and he has also kept the strain pure, buying 

 sires from Tillyfour, Easter Skene, Whitehouse, Wester 

 Fowlis, and Nether Kildrummy. Two heifers were bought 

 from Euthven, I>ogie Coldstone, and these, with the 

 descendants of the animals acquired in 1816, form the herd 

 at Semiel. 



The Burn. — Colonel M'Inroy of The Burn has for many 

 years owned a herd of great purity, but owing to his never 

 having kept pedigrees, we are unable to give much infor- 

 mation regarding it. He used to buy bulls from Kinnaird 

 Cavalier 411, after Windsor 221, and out of KaUiope 1234 

 having been one of them. The Earl of Airlie secured 

 some females from the The Burn herd, and from one of 



