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Messrs. GRUICKSHANK had rendered was now univer- 

 sally conceded in their native land, and leading 

 American breeders gladly availed themselves of the 

 privilege of selecting stock bulls from this premier 

 Aberdeenshire herd. 



And so extensively was the blood of Champion 

 of England doubled, redoubled and doubled yet 

 again throughout all the years down to 1890, and 

 so universal was the use of the GRUICKSHANK bulls 

 for the twenty years following, that the bull which 

 the Leeds Royal judges of 1861 did not see at all, 

 lived to become quite the modern regenerator of 

 his race; England herself, following America's lead, 

 finally falling into line in the patronage of the 

 Aberdeenshire herd when WILLIAM TAIT leased the 

 great Field Marshal for service in the herd of Her 

 Majesty the late QUEEN VICTORIA, at Windsor. 



Mr. GRUICKSHANK'S agent for the distribution of 

 young bulls and heifers in America for many years 

 was the late JAMES I. DAVIDSON of Balsam, Ont.; 

 but the man who did most to hasten the replace- 

 ment of the long-suffering BATES-bred bulls on this 

 side the water by the fleshier, quicker- feeding 

 Sittyton sorts was the late Senator W. A. HARRIS; 

 but that is another story. 



