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Grant Duff 178 19s., and paid him several 

 hundred per cent. She was a useful cow until 

 eighteen years of age and her sire was a good 

 bull when eighteen years old." This remarka- 

 ble cow had been bred from a line of bulls be- 

 longing mainly to Charles Colling 's Old Cherry 

 tribe, receiving also a bit of Booth through her 

 dam's sire, Young Jerry (8177). She was to 

 Eden what Lady Sarah had been to Ury, her 

 descendants proving the best cattle in the herd. 

 Two of them, the heifers Second Mint and Pure 

 Gold, went into the Cruickshank herd, where 

 they gave rise to one of the best Sittyton fam- 

 ilies. 



Numerous public sales were held from the 

 herd at different times, so that the Eden stock 

 became well distributed throughout the North- 

 ern counties. In 1854 the entire herd was dis- 

 posed of at auction,* the sale being in charge 



* Notwithstanding the fact that the 2d Duke of Northumberland did not 

 make a particularly favorable impression in the North, it is apparent that 

 Grant Duff believed that the Kirklevington blood would prove of value. 

 At the conclusion of his last annual catalogue, issued (December, 1853} be- 

 fore his dispersion, we find the following: 



" The sale of the late Earl Ducie, in Gloucestershire, has stamped a 

 value on Mr. Bates' blood, such as Mr. B. frequently foretold. The above 

 animals, with very few exceptions, have all more or less Kirklevington 

 blood, which, fortunately, had been already partially infused into the stock 

 of this district before the value in England exceeded all ordinary compe- 

 tition. 



"All the animals included in the above list, with the exception of two 

 cows (Star Pagoda and Manganese) and one bull not yet selected, are in- 

 tended to be included in the displenish sale at Mains of Eden, on Wednes- 

 day, 24th May, 1854, when their present owner must cease to share in for- 

 warding that important branch of rural economy, namely, the rearing ol 

 the best kinds of stock, but he trusts a fair and generous rivalry may pro- 

 long and far excel our present progress in the improvement of domestic 

 animals, which it has been his endeavor to aid and stimulate." 



