680 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



ton cattle into that prominence which they 

 have ever since held in this country. It was 

 this memorable shipment that brought to our 

 shores the red Champion of England heifers 

 Sylvia (running through Lord Sackville to the 

 Secret foundation) and Christabel, tracing to 

 the Kilmeny base. These two grand specimens 

 of Amos Cruickshank's breeding were shown as 

 yearlings at the Provincial fair held in Toronto 

 the year of their importation, coming against 

 JohivM. Bell's famous roan heifer Empress, 

 tracing to the old Red Kirk stock. Three bet- 

 ter yearlings have probably never been seen in 

 one American show-yard, and when the entries 

 from Sittyton were placed first and second 

 respectively the Cruickshank cattle at once 

 acquired favorable repute. They were the first 

 specimens of that breeding exhibited in Can- 

 ada, and from that time forward a large con- 

 tingent of Dominion breeders never wavered in 

 their allegiance to the Sittyton stock. The 

 heifers above mentioned were bought in the 

 fall of 1870 by the late Simon Beattie for Col. 

 Wm. S. King of Minneapolis, Minn., and in the 

 Western States they made many fast friends 

 for the Aberdeenshire blood. Sylvia developed 

 into an 1,800-lb. cow of magnificent substance 

 and flesh, inheriting much of the extraordinary 

 thickness and quality of her sire, and at the 

 great Jacobs sale at West Liberty, la., in 1875 



