672 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Early importations into Ontario. Although 

 Canada was linked with the mother-land by 

 many ties of blood and interest and numbered 

 in her rural population many farmers of Scot- 

 tish birth, the Dominion's interest in the North- 

 Country cattle did not manifest itself in any 

 appreciable degree until after the great revival 

 of breeding in North America that set in after 

 the close of the Civil War in the States. 



During the period extending from 1854 to 

 1861 Geo. and Win. Miller and Simon Beattie 

 made several importations from the herd of 

 Robert Syme of Red Kirk, Dumfrieshire. This 

 was a sound old stock of good local repute in 

 the south of Scotland, and some of the most 

 useful of the Canadian families of Short-horns 

 trace their descent from these purchases, A 

 very noted bull of Geo. Miller's importation 

 was Prince of Wales 50100, a showy roan that 

 was exhibited extensively in Canada and the 

 State of New York without meeting defeat. 

 Mr. William Miller of Pickering, Ontario, im- 

 ported cattle of Syme's breeding about the same 

 dates; some of the original selections being 

 made by his son, Mr. Wm. Miller (later of Lake- 

 side Farm, Iowa), then a young man making 

 his first tour of the old-country herds and flocks. 

 In the William Miller lot was the bull Red Kirk 

 (15138), a fine roan of medium size that was 

 sold for service in the State of New York. Mr. 



