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ever known, grew up into cattle of the real rent-paying sort. 

 Pages might be filled with the names, pedigrees, and perform- 

 ances of his descendants in the showyards and breeding-pens 

 of Britain and America, but space will not here permit. Such 

 cows as 'Village Belle,' 'Village Rose,' 'Princess Royal,' 

 ' Morning Star,' ' British Queen,' * Carmine Rose,' ' Silvery,' 

 ' Mimulus,' ' Surmise,' ' Circassian,' * Violante,' * Finella,' and 

 ' Victorine,' would alone suffice to make the reputation of the 

 most ambitious breeder. These and others were retained in 

 the herd. They were robust, thick-fleshed, near to the ground, 

 and possessed a propensity for putting on flesh such as had 

 not been shown by the get of any of his predecessors in 

 service." 



"Windsor Augustus" (19157), a roan of Booth blood 

 bred by W. Carr, and used during 1863 and 1864; "Forth" 

 (17866), a light roan, from Sir W. Stirling-Maxwell of 

 Keir, said to be " individually the best bull ever bought 

 for Sittyton," and "the grandest Shorthorn of his time." 

 Although a larger and more finished specimen than " Cham- 

 pion of England," he was not his equal as a sire. But he did 

 good service indirectly to the herd by becoming the sire of 

 " Violet's Forth," an animal that " first drew prominent atten- 

 tion to Cruickshank's breeding in the United States." "Allan" 

 (21172), a red son of "Forth," bred at Keir, which did good 

 work in the herd; "Lord Privy Seal" (16444), a roan sired 

 by a Booth bull and bred at Windsor, which left a few good 

 progenitors ; " Prince Albert " (27107) which died of foot-and- 

 mouth disease, and was a serious loss to the herd, as the few 

 heifers he left were of superior excellence. Other bulls used 

 that were not bred in the herd between 1866-77 were, " Rob 

 Roy" (22740), "Count Robert" (30812), "Scotch Rose" 

 (25099), "Knight of the Whistle" (26558), "Master Darling- 

 ton" (37067), "Meridian" (38748), "Ravenshope" (22681), 

 and "General Windsor" (28701). 



Among the home-bred bulls which were kept to intensify 

 the " Champion of England " blood in the Sittyton herd 

 were 1862, "Caractacus" (19397), a red; 1863, "Grand 

 Monarque" (21867), a roan > sire f "Scotland's Pride," and 

 grandsire of " Pride of the Isles," two of the best of Sittyton 

 sires; 1864, "Royal Oak" (22792), a roan, and "Prince 

 Imperial" (22595), a red; 1865, "Lord Byron" (24363), a 

 red; 1867, "Caesar Augustus" (25704), a red, of exceptional 



