564 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Sittyton, and many others to the production of 

 pure-bred Short-horns.* 



Hutcheson of Monyruy. John Hutcheson, 

 tenant of the farm of Monyruy, near Peter- 

 head, was the owner of a large granite quarry 

 that supplied many of the great blocks for the 

 London docks, and was also interested in the 

 whale fisheries. He made a capital start in 

 Short-horn breeding in 1837 by the purchase of 

 Capt. Barclay's Billy (3151), above mentioned, 

 and secured females from B. Wilson of Bra- 

 with, Fawkes of Farnley Hall, Rennie of Kin- 

 blethmont, and others. He also bought in Eng- 

 land the great prize-winning bull Sir Thomas 

 Fairfax (5196), of Whitaker's breeding. The 

 bull was eight years old at the time of its pur- 

 chase in 1845, and, although he was of massive 

 character and had never been defeated in the 

 South, long-continued training for the show- 

 yard proved his ruin, as he died six months 



*McCombie of Tillyfour, who knew Barclay well, says: "Though he 

 remains without a national acknowledgement of his merits, no man de- 

 served better of the farmers of Scotland, for he was their firm supporter 

 through life, in good and bad report. * * * I have been many a day in 

 company with him and have the most vivid recollection of him as he ex- 

 amined the stock in a show-yard. * * * He was a claimant of the Earl- 

 dom of Monteith. No one would have made any mistake as to Capt. Bar- 

 clay being a gentleman, although his dress was plain a long green coat 

 with velvet collar, and big yellow buttons; a colored handkerchief; long, 

 yellow cashmere vest; knee breeches; very wide top-boots, with long 

 brown, dirty tops, and plain black hat, generally pretty well worn, * * * 

 His horses were the strongest and his fields the largest in the country. He 

 said, 'He did not like a field in which the cattle could see one another every 

 day.' * He was found dead in his bed in 1854; and in him the tenant 

 farmers of Scotland and the poor of his own neighborhood lost one of their 

 bestfrienus." 



