AMOS CRUICKSHANK OF SITTYTON. 591 



American breeding and show-yard herds. The 

 family of Mimulus was never numerous at Sit- 

 tyton and exerted its influence upon the herd 

 mainly through Royal Duke of Gloster. 



Picotee and her progeny. In 1841 a cow 

 called Sunflower, descended from Phantassie 

 and Ladykirk blood, was bought from James 

 Walker. She produced two heifers, one -of 

 which, Picotee, gave rise to a numerous and 

 valuable family. Indeed Picotee herself at ten 

 years of age was one of the first-prize pair of 

 cows at Aberdeen in 1855. From her descend- 

 ed Joyful 2d, a first-prize heifer at the Royal 

 Northern of 1862; the handsome red cow Flor- 

 ence Nightingale, by The Baron; the great roan 

 Village Belle and the red British Queen, both 

 by Champion of England. 



The Matchless sort. A heifer called Pre- 

 mium, sired by George (2057) and in calf to 

 the Bates-bred Holker (4051), was bought from 

 Grant Duff in 1841. To the Holker service she 

 produced the heifer Matchless, considered one 

 of the best of her day in the herd and winner 

 of first prize at a Highland Show at Dundee. 

 She proved the first of a noted race of cows 

 bearing her name, besides contributing through 

 her daughter Kindly a family of "Ks," of which 

 Kindness and Kindred were early representa- 

 tives. This tribe was closed out in the reduc- 

 tion of the herd in 1876. 



