640 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



looked well; but as cows they were such good 

 milkers that they were never much to look at, 

 although good breeders." An own brother to 

 Pride of the Isles, known as Lord of the Isles, 

 was also used in the herd. They were of the 

 Bra with Bud or Pure Gold tribe. 



Caesar Augustus, This good red bull, calved 

 in 1867, joined the blood of the two grand bulls 

 Champion of England and Lord Sackville, and 

 became one of the most valuable sires and show 

 bulls used in the herd. He was exhibited with 

 great success, and some of his daughters proved 

 among the most valuable breeding cows owned 

 at Sittyton, among them being Azalea, the dam 

 of Field Marshal. 



Royal Duke of Gloster. This remarkably 

 successful stock bull, a red, calved in 1870, was 

 got by Grand Duke of Gloster out of Mimulus, 

 a good cow descending in the maternal line 

 from the stock of Rennie of Phantassie. He 

 represented the strongest concentration of 

 blood Mr. Cruickshank had up to that date 

 used; both his sire and dam having been got 

 by Champion of England out of Lord Raglan 

 cows. As the sire of Roan Gauntlet and of the 

 dam of Cumberland Royal Duke of Gloster ac- 

 quired high rank in the great galaxy of Sitty- 

 ton bulls. His sire, Grand Duke of Gloster, was 

 considered the best of all of the sons of Cham- 

 pion of England; inheriting in a remarkable 



