AMOS CRUICKSHANK OF SITTYTON. 643 



Custard of the Clipper tribe, was own sister in 

 blood to Roan Gauntlet, so that his selection 

 for service resulted in still further intensifying 

 Mr. Cruickshank's favorite blood: 



f Scotland's Pride (25100). j 



( Pride of the ! I Lovely 8th. 



Q Isles (35072). I 



|j UddenDays. \ ^rW ^^ 



f Grand Duke of Gloster 



Custard. 



R yai D G1 Ster 



,u 



I Mimulus, 



} by Champion of England. 





I by Champion of England. 



(Champion of England 

 Carmine/ 5 * ' 

 by The Czar (20947). 



There is not in Short-horn history a record 

 of greater success attained in the production of 

 valuable cattle for practical farm and feed-lot 

 purposes than that which attended the breed- 

 ing operations at Sittyton after the practice of 

 using only home-bred bulls was adopted. The 

 herd began at once to take on a uniform- 

 ity in essential points which it had not hith- 

 erto possessed, and the further the concentra- 

 tion of blood was carried up to a certain 

 point the better the results. The fruit of Mr. 

 Cruickshank's appeal to the practice of inbreed- 

 ing was the establishment of a well-fixed type 

 of short-legged, broad-ribbed, thick-fleshed cat- 

 tle feeding to satisfactory weights at an early 

 age; and the same concentration of blood that 

 served to fix these desirable characteristics in- 



