62 SHORTHORNS 



but young calves reduced the average, which was 

 26, 14s. 6d. for 50 head. 



One of the ablest of breeders and most brilliant of 

 exhibitors was Mr James Douglas, Athelstaneford, 

 As a selector of coming animals in the showing sense, 

 and of valuable specimens in the rough, he was pro- 

 bably unexcelled. He began his career as a Shorthorn 

 breeder about 1842, and up to 1864 his exhibiting 

 record was one of unparalleled distinction, A tenant 

 farmer competing against Towneley, Warlaby, and 

 other strong exhibitors, he was never daunted. At 

 Mr La Touche's sale in Kildare he bought the fine 

 Mantalini cow, Hose of Autumn, and she produced, at 

 Athelstaneford, the wonderful Hose of Summer, which 

 won the three National first prizes as a two-year-old, 

 and first as a cow at the Paris Exhibition of 1856, 

 where her owner refused 600 gs. for her. To the bull 

 Captain Balco, she bred Sir James the Rose, the sire 

 of many beautiful heifers at Athelstaneford. Rose of 

 Autumn had another noted daughter in Rose of 

 Primrose, which was sold to Mr Mark Stewart, who 

 afterwards disposed of her to Lady Pigot. Mr 

 Douglas had a liking for the old Cherry blood of 

 Colonel Cradock. From Mr Unthank of Nether- 

 scales he bought a heifer of old Cherry descent, and, 

 following the Netherscales example, he named her 

 Queen of Trumps, and she repeated Hose of Summer's 

 exhibiting triumph. Looking abroad for a represen- 

 tative of the Fame family, he acquired one from Mr 

 J, G. Grove in Donegal, and bred from her the re- 

 markable Clarionet, which broke the winning career 



