410 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



to undertake the detailed training of the show 

 herd then in progress of formation. 



Beattie arrived Aug. 2, 1870, .with the im- 

 ported cattle. He had brought out forty head 

 altogether, including the bulls Scotsman 10951 

 and Old Sain 10551, both two years old, and a 

 pair of roan two-year-old show heifers Booth's 

 Lancaster and Countess of Yarborough for 

 Col. King's examination. The bulls were both 

 good ; in fact so evenly balanced that it seemed 

 impossible to make choice between them. Af- 

 ter extended deliberation, however, in which 

 Messrs. Beattie, Cochrane, King and Gibson all 

 participated, they decided to make their stand 

 with Scotsman. He was a roan, bred by the 

 Duke of Buccleuch and sired by Royal Errant 

 22780 (the sire of the dam of the afterward cele- 

 brated imp. Duke of Richmond) out of Comet 

 by Lord Stanley (18275). Even more difficulty 

 was experienced in trying to choose between 

 the two heifers. They were both grand thick- 

 fleshed specimens and in beautiful bloom. 

 Booth's Lancaster was a great "chunk" full 

 sister in blood to Baron Booth of Lancaster 

 being by same sire out of one of the celebrated 

 triplet daughters of Lord Raglan from the cow 

 Lancaster 25th, bred by Mr. Cruickshank. The 

 Countess was bred by Dudding from Baron 

 Rosedale (21239), a bull out of the dam of Rose- 

 dale. The Lyndale people were afraid that if 



