AMOS CRUICKSHANK OF SITTYTON. 629 



same bull, the roan Will Honeycomb (5660), 

 illustrated in Vol. IV, Coates' Herd Book; a 

 bull that was bred by Mr. J. Beetham of West 

 Harlsey, near Northallerton, and used by Mr. 

 Wilkinson for some years. 



Lancaster Comet was scarcely as massive as 

 Mr. Cruickshank would have liked and was rel- 

 egated to the Clyne farm, it is said, "to hide 

 his horns." The following spring he was 

 turned into a pasture along with a lot of cows 

 that had not settled to the bulls by which they 

 had been served. He ran out quite late in the 

 field that fall and contracted rheumatism so 

 severely that it became necessary to send him 

 to the shambles. Not more than a dozen calves 

 are known to have been sired by him at Sitty- 

 ton, perhaps a half a dozen of each sex. None 

 of the females were retained. One of them 

 called Camelia made a fine yearling and two- 

 year-old, but was disappointing ai? full matur- 

 ity. One of the bulls, recorded as Moonshade 

 (18419), was bought by Bruce of Inverquhom- 

 ery. Another that attracted no special notice 

 for a time was retained by Mr. Cruickshank 

 under the name of Champion of England 

 (17526). Lancaster Comet had cost but 30 

 guineas, but so far-reaching was his influence 

 upon the herd, as exerted through the bull just 

 mentioned, that the history of the Cruickshank 

 cattle naturally divides itself into two epochs, 



