OTHER NORTH COUNTRY HERDS. 665 



Booth (21212), the sire of Mr. PickrelFs Baron 

 Booth of Lancaster. Mandarin was a white 

 bull with roan ears, got by the Bates-bred 2d 

 Duke of Wetherby (21618) out of Seraphina 

 15th; so that Cherub 4th was an inbred Sera- 

 phina carrying a Bates as well as a Booth cross. 

 He was a dark roan of pronounced substance 

 and quality and cost 200 guineas at twelve 

 months old. He was a capital stock-getter and 

 his bulls made the highest prices obtained by 

 Mr. Marr in the old days. 



Athabasca (47359). In the selection and 

 use of this valuable Cruickshank bull we have 

 an admirable illustration of the advantage pos- 

 sessed by Old Country breeders in the matter 

 of disregarding color in bulls chosen for stock 

 purposes. Athabasca was a white, bred at Sit- 

 tyton from the prize bull Pride of the Isles 

 (35072) out of Azalea (dam of the most cele- 

 brated of all latter-day Cruickshank bulls, Field 

 Marshal), by Caesar Augustus (25704). He was 

 bought in 1881 and used at Uppermill for seven 

 years with complete success. His young bulls 

 were in keen demand and his heifers, as a rule, 

 were of a refined and excellent breeding 

 type. 



Since Athabasca's time none but Cruick- 

 shank bulls have been used at Uppermill. He 

 was succeeded by Lord Lavender (54616), by 

 Cumberland out of Lavender 15th. 



