566 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Hutcheson's herdsman, as a lengthy enough 

 beast but not very broad; with shortish legs 

 and good enough quality. In the language of 

 the old cowman, "the warst thing aboot him 

 was his heed." Although he proved something 

 of a disappointment in Scotland, and Amos 

 Cruickshank averred that he would not have 

 used him at all, yet on his return to Warlaby 

 Fitz Leonard sired Mr. Booth's world-famous 

 Crown Prince (10087). The Hutcheson herd 

 was dispersed in 1852, some of the best cattle 

 going to Sittyton. 



Grant Duff of Eden. The farm of Eden was 

 a small estate along the banks of the River 

 Deveron in Northwestern Aberdeenshire, on 

 the Banffshire border, and between the years 

 1839 and 1854 one of the best of the early Scot- 

 tish herds was there maintained. Mr. Grant, 

 as he was known in his earlier manhood, had 

 been in the employ of the East India Co. and 

 had acquired reputation as a man of fine judg- 

 ment in that service in Bombay. It was upon 

 his inheriting the property of Eden that he as- 

 sumed the name of Duff. He set about the 

 formation of his herd with a determination to 

 possess as good cattle as could be found in all 

 Britain. He visited the Short-horn breeding 

 districts of England and bought some of his 

 first cows from Chrisp of Northumberland. 

 From Mr. Crofton he bought the bull The Peer 



