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YOUNG VISCOUNT (736) 181 



Young Viscount (736) was calved in 



1873, being bred by William Duff, Hil- 

 lockhead, Glass, Scotland. His sire was 

 the bull Hampton (492), while his dam 

 was Erica 3d (1249) of the Ballindalloch 

 Erica tribe. When a calf Young Vis- 

 count was purchased by the Earl of Fife 

 at Duff house, near Banff, Scotland. 

 His superior character became manifest 

 as a calf, and he was shown as a year- 

 ling at the Highland and Agricultural 

 society show at Inverness, Scotland, in 



1874, where he won first prize in his 

 class. The following year he was shown 

 at Glasgow, where as a 2-year-old he 

 gained first. Again, in 1876, at Aber- 

 deen he competed in the aged bull class, 

 and again received the coveted first 

 place. In notes on the Highland show 

 animals, in reference to Young Viscount, 

 William Macdonald, editor of the North 

 British Agriculturist, writes of him, in 

 reference to the Inverness show, as "the 

 highest-priced bull and perhaps the 

 best-looking animal of the breed that 

 has yet been shown." The following- 

 year at Glasgow he writes of him as 

 "looking compact and shapely, though 

 less striking than he afterward ap- 

 peared." At the Aberdeen show Young 

 Viscount seemed in better bloom, and 

 Mr. Macdonald wrote that he "here 

 looked almost perfect in form. Deep, 

 square and level, he lacked length of 

 neck a trifle, but he had no other fault, 

 and was 'head and shoulders' above his 

 compeers in the aged class." 



In 1875 this bull won the $250 Chal- 

 lenge cup, and in 1878 the McCombie 

 prize at the Royal Northern show of 

 about $75 for the best breeding Angus 

 bull in Scotland. In order to make his 

 claim good for being a grand individual 

 he won first prize as aged bull and a 

 special prize of about $150 at the .Inter- 

 national Exposition at Kilburn, London, 

 in 1879. These various records indicate 



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