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Tillyfour and HUGH WATSON of Keillor were evolving 

 the "bonnie blackies." In the farming of the Aber- 

 deenshire granite there was no place for cattle that 

 could not pay the rent. They must be a fast-ripening 

 sort, quick to convert the roots and scant herbage 

 of the Northland into thick-cutting beef at earliest 

 possible age. And so, side by side, the builders of 

 the Aberdeen polls and the Aberdeenshire Short- 

 horns, each pursuing the same end under different 

 flags, gave the world at last the types that have 

 divided with the Herefords the honors that are 

 falling in these latter days to the beef breeds in 

 our Chicago shows and markets. 



It is to AMOS and ANTHONY GRUICKSHANK that 

 the Shorthorn breeding world is primarily indebted 

 for the cattle that have enabled them to meet the 

 great invasion of the "doddies" and the Herefords. 

 After the cup of the BOOTHS and of BATES had been 

 drained to the very dregs, when the burly white- 

 faces and the richly-furnished, high-dressing blacks 

 were pressing the colors of the "red, white and 

 roan" to the very wall, it was to the seed obtainable 

 only from good old AMOS GRUICKSHANK that a panic- 

 stricken army of Shorthorn supporters on both 

 sides the sea turned, and found that which saved 

 them from the great enveloping movement of the 



