Dr. Edward Percy Calder of Stagehall Farm, Stow, started producing tubercle free milk in 1920. At this time, tuberculosis (TB) was a killer disease with no cure and so prevention was critical. To build up a herd of cows that were free from the disease was hard work, not only keeping the herd clean and tuberculosis free was difficult but also the public were not keen to buy milk that was 3d. more expensive per quart than ordinary milk. As late as 1934, Stagehall Farm was the only farm in Scotland selling milk on a large scale where every drop of the milk produced was certified tubercle free.
Stagehall Farm is an upland hill farm, it now has 550 hectares and supports 175 cows and 950 breeding ewes. Nigel Miller farms Stagehall in partnership with his two sons. Nigel trained as a vet and has been President of the National Farmers Union in Scotland for the maximum two terms of office in 2011 and 2013.
The cache is hidden with kind permission of the Miller Family a couple of metres off the road. Please do not wander around the farm as it is a place of work with heavy machinery and frequently some equally heavy livestock! You do however, have a nice view of Stow from along this road.
This cache is also part of a printed treasure hunt trail for non-GPS users so there may be entries in the logbook that are not geocache logs.