636 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



sor (28701). None of these, however, gave as 

 good satisfaction as the home-bred bulls used 

 during the same period. 



Concentration of the Champion of England 

 blood. Writers of romance after following the 

 fortunes of their heroes and heroines through 

 various trials and tribulations to a point where 

 all is joy and rapture usually dismiss them with 

 the remark that "they lived happily ever after." 

 It may almost be said of Amos Cruickshank 

 that when he produced Champion of England, 

 after twenty-five years of conscientious work, 

 he was at the beginning of the end of his 

 troubles as a Short-horn breeder. One after 

 another of the sons and daughters of this, the 

 greatest stock bull Scotland has ever known, 

 grew up into cattle of the real rent-paying sort. 

 Pages might be filled with the names, pedigrees 

 and performances of his descendants in the 

 show-yards and breeding-pens of Britain and 

 America, but space will not here permit. Such 

 cows as Village Belle, Village Rose, Princess 

 Royal, Morning Star, British Queen, Carmine 

 Rose, Silvery, Mimulus, Surmise, Circassia, Vio- 

 lante, Finella and Victqrine would alone suffice 

 to make the reputation of the most ambitious 

 breeder. Not only were these and other of the 

 best of the Champion's heifers retained for 

 breeding purposes but his bulls were given a 

 trial along with sires obtained from other herds. 



