592 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



The Broadhooks. Eliza, by White Bull 

 (5643), a heifer that was an own sister to the 

 celebrated Buchan Hero (3238), was bought 

 from Hutcheson of Monyruy, and produced sev- 

 eral good bulls besides founding an excellent 

 family of cows known as the Broadhooks that 

 disappeared from the herd about 1870. Eliza 

 went back to the old Ladykirk stock. This 

 Broadhooks tribe was the same as that con- 

 tained in the herd of Lord Lovat at Beaufort, 

 that produced the champion bull New Year's 

 Gift (57796). 



Origin of the Lady tribe. Always on the 

 lookout for a good one, Mr. Cruickshank saw 

 and admired at the Edinburgh Show of 1842 

 the two-year-old heifer Amelia, that had suc- 

 ceeded in getting into the prize-list not only at 

 Edinburgh but at Berwick. From Amelia came 

 one of the best of the earlier Cruickshank 

 tribes, known as the " Ladys." Writing of these 

 a correspondent of the Banff shire Journal in 

 1864 said: "The most remarkable descendant 

 of Amelia is Grand Lady, out of Lady Louisa 

 and sired by Lord Sackville (13249). Grand 

 Lady is worthy of her name. She is a beauti- 

 ful roan and the very perfection of symmetry." 



The Nonpareils. A good red cow, called 

 Nonpareil 3d, came into the herd in 1844 from 

 the stock of Mr. Cartwright of Lincolnshire. 

 She proved a fortunate investment and gave 



