606 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



prolific and constituted quite a feature of the 

 herd up to the very last. Probably one of the 

 best of the Secret cows was Surname, dam of 

 the successful Collynie stock bull Scottish 

 Archer (59883). None of the Secret bulls were 

 used at Sittyton. 



The Cicely sort. In 1860 there was bought 

 from Mr. Morrison of Bognie an evenly-built, 

 low-legged, level-fleshed red cow, with white 

 marks, called Crocus, sired by Jemmy (11611). 

 She was bred to Lancaster Royal (18167), of the 

 Wilkinson Lancaster sort, and produced the 

 heifer Cicely, that became the ancestress of 

 some of the grandest cows Mr. Cruickshank 

 ever bred, including Courtesy by Scotland's 

 Pride ; Campion by Roan Gauntlet, Circassia by 

 Champion of England, Cornucopia by Grand 

 Vizier and Corolla by Feudal Chief. Those 

 who were familiar with the herd in its prime 

 have always asserted that Courtesy and Cam- 

 pion were among the greatest cows ever pro- 

 duced upon the farm, possessing splendid sub- 

 stance and great scale. Mr. Deane Willis' fine 

 show heifer Cactus is of Cicely descent. 



The Cicelys trace on the dam's side to the 

 cow Premium, by George (2057), that was 

 bought by Mr. Cruickshank from Grant Duff 

 in 1841 ; so that they are of kindred origin 

 with the Matchless sort already mentioned. 



Avalanche. Contemporary with Crocus was 



