AMOS CRUICKSHANK OF 8ITTYTON. 601 



1876. From this cow some of the very best 

 Cruickshank cattle ever seen in Western show- 

 yards and breeding herds have descended. 

 Probably the greatest success, however, ever 

 scored by the tribe in North America was 

 through the extraordinary record of imp. 

 Baron Victor (45944), a son of Victoria 58th, 

 as a bull-getter in the fine herd of Col. W. 

 A. Harris, Linwood, Kan. 



The Lancasters. Three capital cows were 

 bought at the sale from the fine old herd of 

 Wilkinson of Lenton in 1854 Lancaster 16th, 

 Pomp and Roman 9th. Lancaster 16th pro- 

 duced the good bull Lord Bathurst (13173), 

 that was sold from the herd before his value 

 was realized. She was one of the first-prize 

 pair of cows at the Royal Northern of 1856 and 

 for one of her descendants, the handsome Lan- 

 caster 25th, Mr. Barclay of Keavil gave 150 

 guineas. "She proved in calf at the time to 

 Mr. Cruickshank's Lord Raglan (13244), and in 

 April, 1862, gave birth to three heifer calves, 

 two of which, Anne and Mary of Lancaster, 

 won prizes at Kelso as yearlings. The latter 

 subsequently became the dam of imp. Baron 

 Booth of Lancaster 7535, whose remarkable in- 

 fluence in America in the herd of Hon. J..H. 

 Pickrell has already been commented upon in 

 these pages. Mr. Cruickshank had one weak- 

 ness. He would occasionally put his best cat- 



