624 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Master Butterfly 2d (14918). This was a 

 son of Col. Towneley's champion bull Master 

 Butterfly (13311), that was sold to go to Aus- 

 tralia for 1,200 guineas after having headed the 

 Towneley herd at the National Show r s of Great 

 Britain and at the International Exposition at 

 Paris in 1856. His dam was the show cow 

 Vestris 2d. He had been bought by Mr. Mar- 

 joribanks at twelve months old for 300 guineas, 

 and at his sale in 1856 was purchased for Sitty- 

 ton at 400 guineas. The purchase of this bull 

 doubtless reflected Mr. Anthony Cruickshank's 

 desire to profit by the advertising involved in 

 the ownership of a high-priced son of the 

 greatest English show bull of his time. Amos, 

 however, never liked him and upon the bull's 

 death some twelve months after his purchase 

 remarked that the beast had not died any too 

 soon. It is stated that what few calves he sired 

 at Sittyton were "light-made, light-fleshed, too 

 leggy and never had carcass enough." We be- 

 lieve the only one of the Sittyton pedigrees in 

 which this bull's name appears in recent years 

 is one branch of the Victorias. 



John Bull (11618), From the foregoing it 

 will be observed that the Messrs. Cruickshank 

 were inclined to test all of the leading bloods 

 of the period; and as they had been well 

 pleased with the use of the Wiley bull Report, 

 already mentioned, they now went to Brandsby 



