162 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Bra with, Wilkinson of Lenton, Capt. Barclay of 

 Ury, Amos Cruickshank, Rennie of Phantassie, 

 Robertson of Lady kirk, Grant Duff of Eden, and 

 point out the distinguished service rendered to 

 the breed in its earlier years by such noblemen as 

 the Earl of Carlisle of Castle Howard, Yorkshire; 

 the Marquis of Exeter, Stamford; the Dukes 

 of Leeds and of Buccleuch, Earl Brownlow and 

 other great landed proprietors. We are tempted 

 here also to go into the operations of Earl Du- 

 cie of Tortworth, Bowly of Siddington, Bruere 

 of Braithwaite, Peel of Knowlmere, Col. Towne- 

 ley and others who carried the colors of the 

 reds, whites and roans to such great heights at 

 a little later period, but we have now reached 

 the point where, we must begin our account of 

 the breed in the New World, 'in the course of 

 which we shall have occasion to revert not only 

 to some of these but to the herds of Scotland. 



The visitor in Britain will find many memo- 

 rials of Wellington and Nelson. The heroes 

 of Waterloo and Trafalgar England has indeed 

 not forgotten. Her parks and public places 

 are decorated by captured cannon. Deep down 

 in their hearts, however, the English people 

 have an equal pride in what has been accom- 

 plished in their pastures and paddocks. The 

 paths of peace have indeed yielded to them 

 " victories no less renowned than those of war/' 

 The wealth, the brains, the persistence of the 



