The following shows at a glance the leading Keillor strains of which female representatives exist, as well as those that are extinct in the female line:

KEILLOR FAMILIES.

OLD GRANNIE 1, bred by Hugh Watson.

Beauty of Buchan 5 Lady Clara 4 Young Favourite 61.

(extinct).

Favourite 2.

(Easter Skene).

Prizie 586
(Kinnochtry Princesses
and Baronesses).

OLD FAVOURITE, bred by Hugh Watson.

Kinnochtry Jessie 590 (Kinnochtry Favourites).

Edinburgh 64.

Emily of Kinnoch-
try 588
(Kinnochtry
Emilys).

Beauty of Tillyfour 2nd 1180.

Octavia 331 (extinct).

There is scarcely a herd of polled cattle in which the blood of the Keillor bulls is not present. For information regarding the Keillor Jocks we would refer our readers to the chapter immediately preceding. Another celebrated bull bred by Mr Watson was Angus 45, after Old Jock 1, and out of Old Favourite. He was the first prize twoyear-old at the Highland Society's show in 1848, and the judges on that occasion reported of him "that he may with justice be classed as the most perfect animal of the breed ever exhibited." Angus was bought in 1846 by Mr M'Combie of Tilly four for 36 guineas, and his subsequent career is noticed in connection with that herd. Another and scarcely less impressive bull bred at Keillor was Pat 29, after Old Jock 1, and out of Favourite 2. He was the sire of Cup-Bearer 59 and Hanton 228, whose names are found in numerous pedigrees. Marquis 212, also a son of Old Jock 1, proved a most useful sire in the Portlethen herd; as did also Fyvie 13, who, although not bred by Mr Watson, was after Old Jock 1, and out of a cow bred at Keillor. The bull Craigo 260, whose name figures prominently in connection with the Ballindalloch, Montbletton, and Mains of Advie herds, was out of a cow bred by Mr Watson. Several of the early Kinnochtry sires, in addition to the Jocks, were bred at Keillor, notably Hugh 130, the last calf of Old Grannie 1. We may also mention, among the sires bred at Keillor, Strathmore 5 (used in the Crathes herd), Adam 39 (the sire of President 205), Protection 49, Maynooth 58 (whose name appears in Balwyllo pedigrees), Old Windsor 115, Emperor 128, First Memus 582, The Baron 134, Wattie 135, Deeside 168, &c.

Mr Watson sold large drafts in 1848 and 1853; and in 1860, after a most successful and distinguished career, the Keillor herd was dispersed. Times were bad then, and the herd was not in good order, having shortly before passed through a heavy ordeal of pleuro-pneumonia. The prices were accordingly comparatively low. It has, how

ever, been sufficiently well established that the Keillor doddies, the dispersion of which occurred under these adverse circumstances, exerted a most powerful influence on the improvement of other herds; and happily there is no likelihood of those interested in polled cattle overlooking or underestimating the services of Mr Watson, continued without intermission for more than half a century, in developing the merits and spreading the reputation of the breed.

Ardovie and Ardestie.

Mr William Fullerton, who farmed at Ardovie, and latterly at Ardestie, commenced to breed polled cattle in 1833, his first important purchase being the cow Black Meg 766. The famous bull Panmure 51 was added to the herd in 1841. For particulars respecting the breeding and appearance of Black Meg 766 and Panmure 51, whose descendants are now held in high favour, we would refer our readers to the exhaustive statements respecting them contained in the preceding chapter. In a letter written in 1876 to Mr Bowie, Mains of Kelly, with a perusal of which that gentleman has favoured us, Mr Fullerton remarks: "When I purchased the bull Panmure 51, late in September or early in October 1841, he was a year and six months old, so he was three years old off in 1843 when he gained the first prize in the class of aged bulls at the Highland Society's show at Dundee. He cost me £17, 17s., a price which a calf would not likely have brought." Panmure became one of the most impressive bulls in the history of the breed. In vol. i. of the 'Herd Book' there are eleven of his calves registered, but that is only a small number of his produce. The calves got by Panmure, whose pedigrees are printed in vol. i., are: bulls-Richmond 6, calved in 1844, and who passed into the possession of Mr Ruxton, Farnell; Earl Spencer 24, calved in 1844, and well known in connection with the Mains of Kelly herd;

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and Monarch 44, calved in 1843, bought by Mr Ruxton, and sold by him to Mr Arklay, Bowhill, Brechin, from whom he was acquired by Mr M'Combie of Tilly four: cowsPrincess 47, calved in 1843, the dam of the celebrated Balwyllo sire President 205; Lady Panmure 59, who belonged to Mr Ferguson when in Ashmore; Eliza 65, who also belonged to Mr Ferguson; Jean Ann 206, calved in 1844, from whom Mr M'Combie's Victors were bred; Miss Taylor 230, calved in 1853; Queen Mother 348, calved in 1843 (out of Queen of Ardovie 29), the foundress of the renowned Queen tribe; Queen of Scots 72, and Eppy 73, bred by Mr M'Combie of Easter Skene; Queen of Kinnochtry 572, belonging to Mr Ferguson; and Princess Daughter 832, who was bred by Mr Hugh Watson.

As we have said, there is not the slightest doubt that Panmure left many more calves than those that have found a place in the Herd Book.' In 1843 he was sold to Mr Farquharson Taylor, Wellhouse, Alford, and was used extensively, and with splendid results, in his herd, and also in the herds of many others in the Vale of Alford. Of his numerous progeny in Aberdeenshire, however, there is little record further than that contained in the pedigrees of the animals purchased at Mr Fullerton's sale. This sale was held in 1844, and the event may be truly described as a starting-point in the annals of the breed. We treat at length, elsewhere, of the principal descendants of Mr Fullerton's Queen Mother 348. Mr M'Combie has placed it on record that-"It is to Mr Fullerton I owe my success as a breeder. I shall always look up to him as the founder of my stock. From the cow Queen [Queen Mother], bought by me from Mr Fullerton, has sprung a race of females that have driven competition before them in Scotland, England, and France.

Although it is chiefly in the descendants of Black Meg 766, the dam of Queen of Ardovie 29, who produced Queen Mother 348, that Mr Fullerton's fame as a breeder is pre