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bull Rosario on top of a daughter of the world's 

 highest-priced bull, Duke of Connaught. The 

 latter has the character and " grand air " of the 

 Duchesses, accompanied by ample scale and 

 flesh. These cows are large and stylish with 

 good heads, necks and backs. Moreover they 

 are heavy milkers, and as they have been mated 

 with such bulls as Scottish Archer and Lord of 

 Fame the result of the cross is awaited with 

 much interest.* 



It is a peculiar fact that while inbreeding 

 brought several of the greatest herds in Short- 

 horn history to their highest perfection it 

 proved difficult to hold them at the level at- 

 tained by the first appeal to that magic influ- 



* Mr. Duthie was led to undertake this experiment largely by the ap- 

 pearance of the beautiful roan heifer Sea Gem (bred by Mr. Buncombe), 

 champion female of the Royal of 1897 at Manchester; that was sired by 

 Liberator (64260) (bred at Col]ynie and sold in dam to Mr. Willis) out of Sea 

 Pearl, tracing in the maternal line to Fenella by Mr. Bates' 3d Duke of 

 Northumberland (3647). Sea Gem was sold at auction at above 400 guineas. 

 Further evidence of the intent of Mr. Cruickshank's broad-minded suc- 

 cessor to leave nothing undone looking toward the perpetuation of the 

 merit of the Sittyton tribes is to be found in the fact that he has also tried 

 recently the handsome young bull Captain Inglewood, a son of the Sittyton- 

 bred Captain of the Guard, out of one of the famous Inglewood cows bred 

 by the late Robert Thompson of Penrith, whose successes at the English 

 Royal a number of years ago were among the greatest triumphs of the lat- 

 ter-day history of the breed in Britain. 



Among the stock bulls used in recent years at Collynie, in addition to 

 those already mentioned, have been the following: Pride of Morning 

 (6464G), a champion show bull, got by Star of Morning (68189), belonging to 

 the Sittyton Clipper tribe; Count Arthur (70194), a white bull, bred by Deane 

 Willis from Count Lavender (60645) out of Victoria 65th by Gondolier; Non- 

 pareil Victor (71071), also bred by Mr. Willis, sired by the champion bull 

 Count Victor (66877) that was sold to South America at 6CO guineas out of 

 Nonpareil Bloom by Commodore (54118), and Spicy Monarch, bred at Upper- 

 mill from Spicy Robin (69638). out of Alexandrina 20th (own sister to 

 Messrs. Robblns' Gay Monarch) by William of Orange. 



