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He was followed in service by one of his sons, 

 Prince Rufus (51926), descended on his dam's 

 side from the Rettie stock. He was a capital 

 individual, being shown with success as a calf, 

 yearling and two-year-old. About 1887 Edward 

 Cruickshank resolved to give up farming and 

 take up his residence in England, closing out 

 practically the entire herd at private sale to 

 the Hon. John Dryden of Canada. 



Collynie, The herd of Mr. William Duthie, 

 upon whose shoulders the mantle of the late 

 Amos Cruickshank seems to have fallen, occu- 

 pies such a commanding position in the Scotch 

 Short-horn trade at the present time that it 

 must form the subject of further reference in a 

 subsequent chapter. As its foundations, how- 

 ever, date back to about the year 1856 it must 

 be included in this connection among the Aber- 

 deenshire stocks contemporaneous in date with 

 the herd at Sittyton. 



Mr. Duthie's father was a near neighbor of 

 Mr. Cruickshank and kept a few Short-horns on 

 the farm of Collynie one of the Earl of Aber- 

 deen's many estates in that vicinity some fifty 

 years since. At the dispersion sale of the good 

 herd of Mr. Jonathan Whitehead of Little 

 Methlick, in 1856, he purchased the foundation 

 dams of three tribes that are still to be found 

 in the herd; one of which has the same origin 

 as the Roan or Red Lady tribe at Uppermill 



