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was conceded to be the best animal offered, 

 commanding the long price of $2,500. This, 

 therefore, was the real beginning of a wide- 

 spread appreciation of the Sittyton cattle in 

 America, although it was many years before 

 their undoubted merit for practical purposes 

 was fully recognized. 



Along with Sylvia and Christabel came the 

 Sittyton heifer Butterfly's Rose, the good roan 

 heifer Minnie's Annandale (bred by Currie of 

 Hal kers ton, near Edinburgh), the Kinellar-bred 

 heifers Clementina 1st and 2d, and the roan 

 Cruickshank Orange Blossom bull Grand Duke 

 of Orange (28762), sired by Scotland's Pride out 

 of Orange Blossom 4th by Champion of Eng- 

 land. 



Violet's Forth. The enthusiasm with which 

 the Cruickshank importation above mentioned 

 was received in Canada and the West induced 

 Mr. Thompson to make a larger importation 

 from Scotland the following year. From Sitty- 

 ton he obtained one of the best cows ever sired 

 by the grand show bull Forth, the roan Violet's 

 Forth, then in her sixth year, safe in calf to 

 Caesar Augustus. Mr. Cruickshank parted with 

 this cow reluctantly, but her subsequent exhi- 

 bition at the shows of the Central West, follow- 

 ing, as it did, the appearance of Sylvia and 

 Christabel, enhanced materially American ap- 

 preciation of his efforts. Violet's Forth was 



