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herd, which numbered 154 in 1889. James Nelson & Sons 

 of Liverpool bought the herd privately from its owner in his 

 eighty-second year, intending to export it to South America. 

 Duthie secured the animals which were considered too old 

 to ship, and the financial troubles of the time, with which 

 Baring Brothers were associated, resulted in other sections 

 of the herd being kept at home. J. Deane Willis, of Bapton 

 Manor, Wiltshire, for example, bought 33 yearling heifers, 

 or all except 5 Violets, which went to Sutton Nelthorpe of 

 Scawby, Brigg, Lincolnshire. Owing to the success of the 

 progeny of the animals thus retained, Shorthorn breeders 

 of the Old World have reason to be thankful that the 

 intended wholesale shipment was not realised. The Collynie 

 herd had been previously strengthened by the use of the 

 famous Sittyton bull " Field Marshal " already referred to, a 

 bull which, as a calf-getter in Scotland and for some time 

 in the Royal Herd at Windsor, did much to bring Scotch 

 Shorthorns into favour with English breeders. 



Commingling Booth and Bates Blood was riot generally 

 productive of the immediate results that breeders usually 

 desiderate, and it has been practised to but a limited extent. 

 It is acknowledged that the Booth bull and Bates cow is 

 the most useful combination, though most authorities assert 

 that the two strains have become so divergent that satis- 

 factory progeny are not as a rule to be expected, and that 

 results akin to those to be derived from the mating of two 

 distinct breeds are liable to appear black noses, for example. 



The introduction of Cruickshank blood into both of the 

 old and fixed types has been productive of much more useful 

 consequences, although it has given rise to a great diversity 

 of opinion as well as diversity of experience. The practice 

 is so modern that the full measure of success has not yet 

 been generally realised or attained. It will be sufficient at 

 present to state what appear to be the partially crystallised 

 opinions of leading breeders who have favoured us with their 

 views and experiences. It would appear that the ultimate 

 results of the cross are generally satisfactory with both Booth 

 and Bates lines of blood the second and third crosses being 

 better than the first. Cruickshank cattle have good appetites, 

 and fatten well. With Booths they produce better bulls and 

 with Bates better females. It is asserted that these Scotch 



