Volume 67: Macarthur family papers relating to livestock, 1814-1884: No. 395
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Ayrshires
12.3.83
1. Cockie's Daughter: light red, with little white, bred at Arundel, calved July 1880, got by Lord of the Isles, dam, Old Cockie, bred from the parents imported from Scotland by Mr. Donald McLean, late of Geelong. Old Cockie is the dam of Moorcock, the Champion bull of Victoria.
Cockie's Daughter gave birth to her first calf when Sixteen Months old, and her second one is now weanable. She is in calf again since January 31st to Moorcock.
2. Cockie's Grand Daughter: bred at Arundel, red and nicely [indecipherable] with white, calved August 1880, got by Lord of the Isles, dam, Little Cockie, also by Lord of the Isles, Grand dam, Old Cockie, as above. Cockie's G.D. has now her first calf at foot, and weanable, and is in calf again to Moorcock since the 20th of Decr. last.
The price of the above two heifers, which are pure and without any blemish, is one hundred Guineas.
R.M.D.
Arundel March 12, '83.
N.B. Lord of the Isles is a pure bull, from McLean's imported stock. Buccleuch, the Sire of Moorcock, is bred in the same way and was the Champion bull at the Sydney Show last year. R.M.D.