XVII 

 "THE HERDSMAN OF ABERDEENSHIRE" 



As a companion picture to that of CHARLES and 

 ROBERT COLLING there should be a similar canvas 

 portraying AMOS and ANTHONY CRUICKSHANK. You 

 may see the portrait of grim old AMOS hanging 

 there just now alongside THOMAS BATES, whom he 

 in nowise resembled; but I have seen no picture of 

 the brother who really had a large part in the 

 founding and upbuilding of the great Scottish herd 

 that turned England and America topsy-turvy after 

 the BOOTH and BATES manias had finally run their 

 course. AMOS was the resident farm and herd 

 manager, and is generally credited with the concep- 

 tion of most of the plans that yielded such splendid 

 ultimate results; and yet it was ANTHONY'S steadfast 

 financial and moral support and active, intelligent 

 co-operation that made possible the fame of that 

 "farthest-north" of all great cattle-breeding farms 

 Sittyton of Straloch in Aberdeenshire. 



Mr. BATES and the BOOTHS and their contempo- 

 raries in the Shorthorn ranks had beaten all other 

 breeds of cattle to the goal of a lucrative inter- 

 national fame through their prompt adoption and 

 persistent practice of ROBERT BAKEWELL'S methods; 

 but the time at length arrived when their followers 



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