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strated what could be done by the right kind 

 of an outcross when he introduced the blood of 

 Crown Prince of Athelstane 2d. Messrs. Potts 

 added to the vitality, as shown by increased 

 fertility, of one branch of the Sittyton Laven- 

 ders, by the use of a bull blending the blood of 

 imp. Duke of Richmond with a Young Mary 

 foundation. At Linwood Col. Harris was mak- 

 ing substantial progress at the time he gave up 

 breeding by the use of the Golden Drop and 

 Princess Alice blood. Evidence is to be had 

 from the operations of Mr. James J. Hill, the 

 late Col. T. S. Moberley and others, going to 

 show that a judicious intermingling of the 

 blood of other good Short-horns with that of 

 the Scotch-bred stock will prove in the future 

 fruitful of better results than are promised by 

 a too rigid adherance to the prevailing fashion- 

 able line. 



Touching this point the Hon. John Dryden, 

 one of the earliest and best friends of the Sit- 

 tyton cattle in America, says: 



For those who are interested in Cruickshank cattle to go on 

 blindly following pedigree as the most prominent thing in connec- 

 tion with the breeding of these cattle means, in my judgment, 

 certain ruin. We have seen this tried in several breeds of cattle 

 and horses before, and I know how much evil it has worked. 

 Whatever others may say, I know definitely that Mr. Cruick 

 shank's own ideas were entirely contrary to that view. It would 

 have been of great advantage to those of us following in his foot- 

 steps to have had the crosses made by himself ; they would then 

 have been accepted without question as the result of sound judg- 

 ment. 



