CHAPTER XIX. 



AMOS CKUICKSHANK OF SITTYTON. 



To Ketton, Kirklevington, Killerby and Ayles- 

 by we have now to add the name of Sittyton, 

 Mr. Bates, the elder Booth and William Tori 

 did not survive to witness the crowning show- 

 yard and sale-ring triumphs of their favorites. 

 Amos Cruickshank,."the herdsman of Aber- 

 deenshire," more fortunate in that respect than 

 the great English breed-builders, lived to re- 

 ceive recognition both at home and abroad as 

 one of the few great constructive breeders of 

 Short-horn history. An inspiring story this of 

 Sittyton. Not a legend of Aladdin and his 

 lamp, but a plain, unvarnished tale of patient, 

 persistent, unfaltering pursuit of an ideal fol- 

 lowed over all obstacles to the goal of final and 

 complete success. 



Born in 1808 and reared in the County of 

 Aberdeen, entering the ranks of the tenant- 

 farmers of the district at the period of greatest 

 activity and progress in the development of the 

 modern agriculture of the North ; engaging in 

 the very thick of the fight for leadership in the 

 work of evolving a type of cattle suited to the 



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