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Miller describes the Red Kirk heifers of that 

 day as among the best to be found in all Britain. 

 In 1857 Messrs. Armstrong of Markham brought 

 out the light-roan bull Fawkes (14539), of Red 

 Kirk breeding, a remarkably thick-fleshed, sub- 

 stantial bull that proved a grand getter. In 

 1856 Mr. Geo. Roddick of Coburg imported 

 from the herd of Mark Stewart, Southwick, 

 near Dumfries, the heifer Nonpareil 6th in calf 

 to Lord Raglan (13244) and the young bulls 

 Brilliant by Baron of Ravensworth (7811) and 

 Prince Charlie by Lord Raglan. In 1861 Simon 

 Beattie imported three heifers and two bulls of 

 the Red Kirk blood, and in 1869 Wm. Miller of 

 Pickering brought out the grand roan show 

 heifer Ruberta bred by Messrs. Game of Broad- 

 moor, Gloucestershire, England that had a 

 successful career at the leading Western fairs 

 of the early "seventies."* Along with Ruberta 



* Some facts concerning earlier importations into Canada from England 

 may here be of interest: 



One of the first importations into the Dominion was that of Mr. Row- 

 land Wingfield, who brought out in 1833 and in 1838 six cows and heifers and 

 the white bull Young Farmer 62d. Three of the females, Lilly, by Warden 

 1563; Dairymaid, by Warwick (2815); Pedigree, by Mynheer (2345), and Cow- 

 slip, by Warwick (2815), were purchased by Kentucky breeders and taken 

 to that State. 



About this same date Mr. Adam Fergusson imported the cows Beauty' 

 by Snowball (2647), and Cherry, by a son of St. Albans (2584), together with 

 the bull Agricola (1614). The latter was sold to go to New York. Beauty 

 and Cherry were both roans from the herd of James Chrisp of Northumber- 

 land, and the former gave rise to a family that afterward became very pop- 

 ular at Bow Park and elsewhere. In 1837 Thomas Mairs imported the roan 

 bull Holderness and the cow Strawberry. Antedating all of these was an 

 importation of four bulls said to have been made by the New Brunswick 

 Agricultural Society, three of which were from the herd of Mr. Wetherell- 



In 1845 Ralph Wade Sr. of Port Hope, Ont., imported the roan cows Ade- 

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