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and was sold to Sir George Macpherson Grant for the 

 highest price ever paid for a polled bull, 225 guineas. 



Innes was after Lord Ornoch 445, and her dam Jenny 

 1017 was from the Montbletton herd. 



At this show Lord Fife had five cows mentioned in 

 the prize list, while his herd, and that at Corskie, subse- 

 quently amalgamated, secured no fewer than five first 

 prizes. The first-prize aged bull, the first-prize two-year- 

 old bull, and the second-prize cow at this show, were of 

 the Ballindalloch Erica family. 



Edinlmrgli, 1877. 



Bull, LoGiE THE Laird 3ed 862, bred by Alexander 

 Bowie, Mains of Kelly, exhibited by Colonel Ferguson of 

 Pitfour. 



Cow, Sybil 1st of Tillyfodr 3524, bred by George 

 Eeid, Baads, Peterculter, exhibited by "William M'Combie 

 of Tillyfour. 



Logic the Laird 3rd was purchased from Mr Bowie 

 for 100 guineas. He was after Gainsborough 596, the 

 first-prize bull in 1874, and out of Lizzie 4th 2249, of 

 the Mains of Kelly tribe of that name. This was the 

 fifth time a bull of Mr Bowie's breeding was first in the 

 aged class. 



Sybil 1st of Tillyfour 3524, was after Sir William 

 705, and out of Fancy of Baads (a son and daughter of 

 President 4th 368), a strain which rapidly acquired a 

 high reputation in the show-yard and sale-ring. She was 

 sold to Lord Airlie at the Tillyfour dispersion in 1880 

 for 110 guineas. 



Dumfries, 1878. 



Bull, Shah 680, bred by "WUliam M'Combie, Tillyfour, 

 exhibited by Thomas Ferguson, Kinnochtry, Coupar- 

 Angus. 



