646 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



son of Fifeshire, Douglas of Athelstaneford, 

 Barclay of Keavil, the Duke of Richmond, the 

 Earl of Montrose, Lord Lovat of Beaufort, Sir 

 William Sterling Maxwell of Kier, Longmore 

 of Rettie, Mark Stewart of South wick, the 

 Bruces of Inverquhomery and Burnside, Syme 

 of Red Kirk, Mitchell of Alloa, Sylvester Camp- 

 bell of Kinellar, William S. Man* of Uppermill, 

 John W. and Edward Cruickshank of Lethenty, 

 and Duthie of Collynie. While we need not 

 undertake a detailed account of the opera- 

 tions of these and other leading breeders of 

 that time it seems essential to a correct under- 

 standing of the career of the Scotch-bred Short- 

 horns in America that some facts be furnished 

 relating especially to the herds at Athelstane- 

 ford, Kinellar, Uppermill, Lethenty and Col- 

 lynie. 



Douglas of Athelstaneford, A herd that 

 was in every way worthy of the district that 

 had been the home of Rennie of Phantassie 

 was begun about 1842 by Mr. James Douglas, 

 an enterprising tenant farmer at Athelstane- 

 ford (locally called "Elshinford") in East Lo- 

 thian. Douglas was ambitious from the first 

 for show-yard honors, and as a competitor at 

 the great exhibitions of the United Kingdom, 

 as well as at the Paris Exposition of 1856, he 

 met with a brimming measure of success. The 

 herd was begun about 1842, but it was not un- 



