622 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



generally lacked substance, although Scarlet 

 Velvet and Magnus Troil constituted excep- 

 tions to this rule. 



The Baron was used for six or seven years, 

 and his heifers grew into very handsome cows 

 up to about five years of age, but after that 

 seemed to lose "bloom" and a number of them 

 showed signs of disease. They were, for the 

 most part, indifferent milkers, and few of them 

 lived to be more than seven or eight years old. 

 Speaking of this Jamieson says: "There was 

 evidently a want of constitution about The 

 Baron, but it must have been many years be- 

 fore suspicion arose that he was doing mischief 

 in the herd, for several bulls out of cows sired 

 by The Baron were kept for service. None of 

 them, however, proved a success and gradually 

 The Baron blood was well cleared out. Only 

 two of his own sons seem to have been used 

 as stock bulls; namely, Baronet (1614) and 

 Lancaster Royal (18167). Baronet was out of 

 an extra good cow, Buttercup, and was used 

 for two or three seasons. He had more sub- 

 stance and less style than The Baron, was 

 sound and robust and proved to be a useful 

 sire. Lancaster Royal was kept because he 

 was from a Lancaster cow whose dam came 

 from Wilkinson of Lenton. He was little used, 

 but sired the good cow Cicely, whose descend- 

 ants formed one of the best families at Sitty- 



