550 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



triumphant vindication of the intrinsic value 

 of Short-horn blood, under apparently adverse 

 conditions of soil and climate, resulting from 

 that practical test makes up one of the bright- 

 est chapters in the annals of the breed, inci- 

 dentally it also furnishes a lesson in good farm- 

 ing that is world-wide in its application. The 

 story of the Short-horn in the North of Scot- 

 land has, therefore, a deep significance. 



"Caledonia stern and wild." Within the 

 memory of the generation now passing Aber- 

 deenshire, a comparatively bleak and unpro- 

 ductive country, was unknown as a producer 

 of prime beef. To-day, thanks to Short-horn 

 blood, turnips, Capt. Barclay of Ury, Grant 

 Duff of Eden, Hay of Shethin, Watson of 

 Keillor, McCombie of Tillyfour, the Cruick- 

 shanks of Sittyton, their contemporaries and 

 successors, it is one of the primary factors in the 

 world's supply. Reaching from the Northern 

 Highlands of Perth and the forest of Glen Ey, 



"Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; 

 Land of the mountain and the flood," 



to where Kinnaird Head finally plows its way 

 into the surf of Northern seas, Aberdeenshire 

 presents a rolling landscape, strewn for the 

 most part with the stony debris deposited by 

 the ancient glaciers of the Grampians. A 

 rough, broken country, possessing but limited 

 areas of good soil, wanting in natural shelter, 



