626 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



never ceased to regret that he did not trans- 

 fer the bull to America. 



Lord Raglan grew into "a large, stylish, 

 rather highstanding bull, fertile as a yearling, 

 quite useless as a two-year-old and unusually 

 prolific ever after. In outward appearance 

 he took after his sire, Crusade, whom Douglas 

 considered the best bull of his day in England." 

 He was a Highland winner in the hands of Lord 

 Kinnaird in 1857 and on being taken North to 

 Sittyton in 1860 was the Challenge Cup winner 

 at the Royal Northern and first at the Perth 

 Highland of 1861. Probably the two best indi- 

 vidual cows among his get at Sittyton were 

 Butterfly 5th and The Gem. His most valuable 

 daughter, however, proved to be Golden Days, 

 "possibly the best milker of her time in the 

 herd. She left a valuable progeny, including 

 the prize bull Pride of the Isles (35072), and 

 lived to be one of the oldest cows of the herd. 



The Czar (20947). This was the best of the 

 Lord Raglan bulls and saw considerable service 

 at Sittyton. He was a red, " compact and well 

 set on his legs," and sired Carmine, a thick- 

 fleshed, well-haired cow, with extraordinary 

 back and ribs, that produced the famous Prin- 

 cess Royal already described. Mr. Cruickshank 

 is quoted as saying that he did not reap as 

 much benefit from the use of Lord Raglan as 

 he had anticipated. Notwithstanding this fact 



