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still the quest for good material went on. Dur- 

 ing that year there was bought from Mr. Bos- 

 well of Kingcausie, near Aberdeen, two cows 

 that exerted, perhaps, a greater influence upon 

 the fortunes of the herd than any other. These 

 were Verdant and Clipper. The first named 

 became the grandam of the celebrated Cham- 

 pion of England and will be referred to further 

 on in connection with the appearance of that 

 epoch-making sire. 



Clipper, by the Barclay bull Billy (3151), was 

 a light- roan cow, not very large, "slightly hol- 

 low in the back, but very fleshy and of great 

 substance." She was seven years old when she 

 came to Sittyton, and was descended from a 

 sort that had been in Mr. BoswelFs hands for 

 several generations, tracing her maternal de- 

 scent from the Chilton herd of Mr. Mason. It 

 is worthy of note that she continued to breed 

 until fifteen years of age and produced her best- 

 heifer, Cressida, by John Bull (11618), in her 

 fourteenth year. To the cover of The Czar 

 (20947) Cressida produced the good red-and- 

 white cow Carmine, whose daughters by Cham- 

 pion of England Princess Royal and Carmine 

 Rose proved mines of bovine wealth. Indeed 

 this pair did much toward convincing Mr. 

 Cruickshank that in Champion of England he 

 had found the sire he long had sought. Jamie- 

 son of Ellon tells us that in her day Carmine 



