784 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



defenders to the last, but wben the crown was finally sent to his 

 thicker, meatier adversary the triumph of Amos Cruickshank's 

 real old work-a-day type was quite complete. One bystander gave 

 exaggerated expression to a feeling that possessed a majority of 

 the breeders present by saying: "Cupbearer is the dude, Young 

 Abbottsburn the solid farmer" one way of saying that the latter 

 is of a more eminently useful feeder's type. Cupbearer has been 

 an almost certain winner by reason of his matchless smoothness, 

 marvelously-spread loin, level quarters, refined conformation and 

 gay carriage. Young Abbottsburn crushes all before him by an 

 incomparable wealth of flesh, in addition to which his head is 

 more truly masculine, his crops are better covered and his lower 

 lines are fuller than those of his chief antagonist. He is a 2,800-lb. 

 bull, standing (at the brisket) but fourteen inches from the 

 ground, with a rich roan coat and a good mellow hide, full of that 

 golden coloring matter that indicates the easy keeper and great 

 "doer." He is low, wide, compact and smoothly laden with 

 flesh of good quality from horns to hocks. He has a good, broad 

 head and horns of the right sort, a mild, placid eye, and one of 

 those quiet, even temperaments that tell of a disposition favorable 

 to the putting on of meat. There is some little show of unevenness 

 over the blades, but not so much of a roll as Cupbearer sports. 

 He does not finish out behind the hooks quite so perfectly as the 

 other, but is yet a grand-quartered bull and thicker in his rounds, 

 "The king is dead; long live the king." 



Young Abbottsburn cost in Canada $425! 

 Whatever of lingering doubt in relation to 

 the feeding and flesh-carrying capacity of the 

 Cruickshank cattle may have existed prior to 

 this date was dispelled once for all by the ex- 

 hibition of this wonderful bull at the American 

 shows from 1890 to 1893. From the day of his 

 lirst appearance at Detroit until crowned with 

 the championship of the World's Columbian 

 Exposition there were none to challenge his 

 complete supremacy. Open to criticism, per- 

 haps, upon the score of some lack of character, 



