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wintered the easiest and best of any cattle he ever saw. 

 Health and fatness appear to be their normal condition. 



Mr J. F. Poote, New Jersey, made an importation in 

 November 1881. The lot numbered twelve, and included 

 a bull calf and yearling heifer from the Earl of Airlie ; 

 yearling heifer from Aboyne Castle ; together with repre- 

 sentatives of the Haughton, Pitgair, Old Morlich, CoUithie, 

 Skene, Tillychetly, Little Endovie, and other herds. 



Mr W. H. Whitridge, of Baltimore, imported a bull and 

 two heifers, selected for him by Mr Campbell Macpherson 

 Campbell of Balliemore. They were the bull Sir Eustace, 

 and the heifers Merrythought 4670 and Clarissa 4534. 



Mr D. N. Hine, Milan, Erie Co., Ohio, laid the founda- 

 tion of a herd by purchases from Mr Grant, Mains of 

 Advie ; Mr Maitland, Balhaggardy ; and Mr Lumsden of 

 Clova. 



Mr Bobbins Battell, 74 Wall Street, New York, and 

 others, imported four females and two bulls in March 

 1881. 



Mr F. "W. Harvey, Chicago, imported two bulls and 

 several heifers during the summer of 1882. 



Mr Archibald Galbraith, of Messrs Galbraith Brothers, 

 JanesvUle, Wisconsin, imported six animals in 1882 from 

 the herds of Mr Bean, Balquharn Mains ; Mr Grant, Meth- 

 lick ; Mr Beaton, Lethenty ; and Mr Stewart, Knockol- 

 lochy. 



Canada. 



In 1876 Professor Brown of the Agricultural College 

 at Guelph, Ontario, paid a visit to Scotland, and selected 

 for that institution three polled animals — the bull Gladiolus 

 1161 and the cow Eyebright 3001, from the herd of Mr 

 Hannay, Gavenwood ; and the cow Leochel Lass 4th 1864, 

 from Mr Farquharson of Haughton, after she had taken 

 the first prize at Alford the same year. In 1881 the bull 

 Meldrum 1759, of the Madge family, was bought from the 



