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Carnegie of Craigo, when in calf to Craigo 260, of Keillor 

 and Balwyllo blood. The produce was Mayflower 614, 

 who stood second as a cow at one of the Highland 

 Society's shows ; but the animal placed before her having 

 failed to produce a calf, she actually obtained the first 

 prize. A numerous and valuable family has sprung from 

 Mayflower. Her daughter, Mayflower 2nd 1020, by 

 The Earl 291, lived till she was seventeen years old, and 

 had a progeny of fourteen. Mayflower 2nd's daughter, 

 Lady Ida, a famous local prize-winner, is still alive and 

 breeding, last season's calf having been her fourteenth. 

 To this fine sort belonged Blackbird of Corskie 2nd 3024, 

 the first-prize cow at the Highland Society's Show at 

 Perth in 1879. The first of the Charlotte family at 

 Montbletton was Young Charlotte 103, the first-prize 

 cow at the Highland Society's Show in 1848. She was 

 bred by Colonel Dalgairns, but came to Montbletton from 

 Tillyfour. At Montbletton she produced twin calves — 

 Twin Charlotte 609, and Twin Queen 610, by the Wester 

 Fintray bull Fintray 125. These animals were prize- 

 takers, and have each established a family. The Balwyllo 

 Isabella family — tracing from Isabella of Balwyllo 423, 

 bred by Mr Fullerton, after Earl o' Buchan 57 — ^is main- 

 tained at Montbletton through the descendants of Heiress 

 of Balwyllo 461, who was purchased by Mr M'Combie of 

 Tillyfour, and sold by him to Mr "Walker. Heiress was 

 a first-prize heifer at the Highland Society, and the strain 

 she represented furnished the last stock bull at Keillor — 

 President 3rd 246, a half-brother of Heiress. Prom the 

 cow Jane of Montbletton 1268, by Black Diamond 464, 

 sprung the dam of Innes 1934, the first-prize cow at the 

 Aberdeen show of the Highland Society in 1876. The 

 Victoria family at Montbletton traces from Victoria of 

 Pintray 607, bred by Mr James Collie, Middleton of 

 Fintray, and doubtless inheriting the Wester Fintray 

 blood. 



