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double merit by the fact Anthony Cruickshank, draper 

 of Aberdeen, has worked his way, gradually and noise- 

 lessly, to the very head and front of the Shorthorn knight- 

 hood of the world. While pursuing the occupation to 

 which he was bred with as much assiduity and success 

 as if it had every thought and activity which a man 

 should give to a business, he built up, at a considerable 

 distance from his warehouse, an enterprise of an entirely 

 different nature, to a magnitude which no other man has 

 ever equalled. He now owns the largest herd of Short- 

 horns in the world, breeding and feeding them to the 

 highest perfection in the cold and naturally unfertile 

 county of Aberdeen, which no man of less patience 

 and perseverance would select as the ground on which 

 to enter the lists against such an array of competitors 

 in Great Britain and other countries. I regret that my 

 Notes have already expanded to such a volume as to 

 preclude a more extended account of his operations in 

 this great field of usefulness. A few simple facts will 

 suffice to give the reader an approximate idea of what 

 he has done in this department. 



About the year 1825, young Cruickshank was put 

 to a Friends' school in Cumberland. . He was a 

 farmer's son, and seems to have conceived a great 

 fancy for cattle from childhood. A gentleman resided 

 not far from the school who was an owner and amateur 



