634 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



the roan bull Lord Privy Seal. He was bred 

 by the late Prince Consort at Windsor and 

 was sired by the Booth bull Prince Alfred 

 (13494) out of Cowslip by the famous show bull 

 Belleville (6778). He was then in his seventh 

 year, having been taken North as a yearling 

 and bought by Lord Kinnaird in 1860. All 

 hands at Sittyton were disappointed in the bull 

 upon his arrival. He lacked size as well as 

 flesh, and was not extensively used. Like most 

 of his predecessors, however, he left a few good 

 calves, such as the bull Multum in Parvo 

 (26934), and the cow Victoria 41st, one of the 

 best of her family and a fine breeder the dam 

 of the bull Ventriloquist (44180). 



Prince Alfred (27107). In 1871 Mr. Pawlett 

 offered to sell to Mr. Cruickshank Baron Killer- 

 by (23364). Amos went to see him, but was 

 more favorably impressed with one of his sons, 

 Prince Alfred (27107), and wished to take him 

 instead of the sire. Being unable to buy the 

 young bull without taking them both, he closed 

 a trade for the pair and shipped them to Sitty- 

 ton. Baron Killerby was then six years old and 

 possessed a bad temper. He was too heavy in 

 the bone to suit Mr. Cruickshank, and was but 

 little used. Prince Alfred was a young bull of 

 much promise, but, as luck would have it, foot- 

 and-mouth disease appeared in the herd not 

 long after his purchase and he succumbed to 



