570 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



of Mr. Stratford, at that time editor of Coates' 

 Herd Book and the leading auctioneer of Great 

 Britain. No better evidence of the quality of 

 the herd is required than is furnished by the 

 fact that among those who attended and pur- 

 chased were Messrs. Cruickshank, Torr, Tan- 

 queray, Longmore and others prominent in the 

 trade. The top price was 100 guineas, paid by 

 Tanqueray for a daughter of Brawith Bud. 

 Amos Cruickshank took Pure Gold at 91 guin- 

 eas, and other lots commanded up to 90 guin- 

 eas and 95 guineas. 



Simpson and Buchan Hero. Mr. Ferguson 

 Simpson, tenant of the farm of Mains of Pit- 

 four, bred a good herd of Short-horns from 1835 

 to 1846. His chief claim to distinction rests 

 upon his production of the celebrated show 

 bull Buchan Hero (3238), winner of the High- 

 land Society's 100 prize at Berwick-on-Tweed 

 in 1841 as the best bull of any age, competition 

 open to all Britain.* He was a massive, deep- 

 bodied, short-legged roan, with a beautiful coat, 

 and was bought at Berwick by Jonas Whitaker, 

 afterward passing into the possession of Sir 



*"The Druid" in his delightful reminiscences of Scottish flocks ana 

 herds, published under the title of "Field and Pern," speaking of Buchan 

 Hero's victory at Berwick says: "One of his greatest admirers who had 

 his eye to a crack ' in the palings on that memorable day thus describes 

 the contest. 'I lookit, and they drew them, and they sent a vast o' them 

 back. Again I lookit, and still the Buchan Hero stood at the heed. They 

 had naedoot of him then. A Yorkshireman was varra fond of him. And 

 he wan ; and Simpson selt him to Sir Charles Tempest for 200. It was a 

 prood day, that, for Aberdeenshire and Mr. Simpson.' " 



