He was bred at Ballindalloch, and came 

 into the possession of Estill & Elliott, 

 where he was for some time at the head 

 of the Woodland herd at Estill. Mo. He 

 was a very short-legged, thick- fleshed 

 bull, and sold at public auction at $1,150. 

 He was the sire. of a champion bullock 

 of the 1888 fat stock show named Dot, 

 and of a bull named Estill Erick. that 

 proved to be a high-class sire of pro- 

 ducing dams. 



Still another son of Young Viscount 

 was King of Trumps 2690, out of Duchess 

 of Verulam 2748, owned by Mossom Boyd 

 & Co. of Canada. This bull had the same 

 great prepotency seen in his sire, and 

 was also a celebrated show animal. In 

 1883 he was first prize 2-year-old at To- 

 ronto, and also at the Dominion exposi- 

 tion at Ottawa, winning a silver medal at 

 the latter show as the best bull of any 

 age. In 1884 he again won first prize at 

 each of these fairs, and in 1886 was first 

 prize bull at Toronto for the third 

 time. 



A daughter of Young Viscount, bred at 

 Ballindalloch, by the name of Katinka 

 778 (4669), cost $1,500 in Scotland, and was 

 a cow "of wonderful individual merit." 

 She was owned by Wallace Estill of Es- 

 til, Mo., and proved to be an excellent 

 dam. 



The great importance of Young Vis- 

 count's blood has been best seen in mat- 

 ing with the Blackbird tribe. Take up a 

 catalogue showing prominent Blackbird 

 breeding, and Young Viscount and his 

 descendants make a striking showing. 

 Take, for example, the pedigree of Black 

 Monarch of Emerson 30331. one of the 

 prominent service bulls of to-day. He is 

 six generations removed on each side of 

 the family from the subject of this 

 sketch, Young Hero 1921, his son, being 

 sire of Rugby 6140. The latter, bred to 

 Blackcap of Keillor Lodge 2095, dropped 

 the famous Blackbird Hero 14494, the 

 grandsire of Black Monarch of Emerson, 

 on both sire and dam's side. The blood 

 of Young Viscount, however, is found 

 abundantly in other tribes. 



Volume 1 of the American Aberdeen- 

 Angus herd book contains 5,200 names of 

 animals registered, and Young Viscount 

 was sire of thirty-two of these, twenty- 

 three being bulls. These sons of his are 

 sires of hundreds of animals registered 

 in this volume, many of which are well 

 known to fame. 



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