596 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



dam of the bull Diphthong, first-prize winner 

 at Aberdeen in 1862 and 1863 and challenge- 

 cup winner at the Royal Northern. From this 

 sort, also, sprang one of the greatest of all the 

 latter-day Scottish sires, William of Orange, so 

 celebrated in the herd of Mr. Marr of Uppermill. 



Admah, Kilmeny 3d, and Eliza by Brutus. 

 Cows introduced into the herd in the early 

 "fifties" that had descendants upon the farm 

 for many years were Admah, by Fitz Adolphus 

 Fairfax; Kilmeny 3d, by Robin o' Day, and 

 Eliza, by Brutus. The first-named came from 

 Hutcheson and was out of a cow by Richard 

 Booth's Fitz Leonard that had been on hire two 

 seasons at Monyruy. Her grandam had been 

 bought from Rennie of Kinblethmont. From 

 Admah came Aroma, by Matadore, whose 

 daughter Oakleaf, by The Baron, produced the 

 bull Royal Oak (22792), by Champion of Eng- 

 land, that saw some service at Sittyton. Kil- 

 meny 3d came from Grant Duff's, and her de- 

 scendants were maintained in the herd for 

 some years. Eliza, by Brutus, a red cow bought 

 from Mr. Cochrane of Glasgow Forest, acquired 

 distinction as the dam of Emily, by Lord Sack- 

 ville, that produced the stock bull Caesar Au- 

 gustus (25704). Eliza was descended from the 

 stock of Ben Wilson of Brawith. 



Clipper tribe. By the year 1852 the number 

 of females at Sittyton exceeded 100 head, but 



