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heifers, including the Booth-bred Gaiety and 

 Madame Booth, both from Killerby and got by 

 Brigade Major (21312). 



In July, 1871, John Miller brought out nine 

 heifers, including Missie 32d, from Uppermill, 

 Oxford Lady from Col. Towneley's, and several 

 from the herd of T. Marshall of Annan, Scot- 

 land. In 1872 Mr. Miller imported the Booth- 

 bred General Prim (31234), of Hugh Aylmer's 

 breeding. 



James I. Davidson. One of the earliest and 

 most consistent supporters of Sittyton in Can- 

 ada was Mr. James I. Davidson of Balsam, On- 

 tario. A native of Aberdeen, who emigrated 

 to Canada in 1842, he enjoyed the personal 

 friendship and confidence of Mr. Amos Cruick- 

 shank, and after it appeared that the Sittyton 

 sort were winning their way in America he be- 

 came for some years the leading importer and 

 distributor of cattle of that type on this side 

 of the Atlantic. 



Mr. Davidson began breeding Short-horns 

 about 1860 with a heifer by Fawkes (14539), 



not think I ever saw anythiog quite equal to it. So good a judge as Davy 

 Grant once said of him on the show ground that if he possessed the instru- 

 ments and skill of the sculptor he couldn't carve a more perfect front. He 

 impressed his qualities upon his heifer calves in a much larger degree than 

 upon his bull calves. All his heifers were very like him, but his bull 

 progeny were more prone to follow the characteristics of their dams. 



" Lord Strathallan was what might be called a miscellaneously-bred bull, 

 but from the best sources. The blood of nearly all of the great English 

 breeders was in his lineage. Mason, Towneley, Douglas, Knightley, Booth 

 and Cruickshank all contributed in more or less degree to the constitution 

 of his blood lines." 





