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of Shorthorns, and Anthony would frequently spend 

 his half-holidays with him, inspecting and admiring 

 his herd and asking him questions about their qualities 

 and his way of treating them. From this school he 

 was sent as an apprentice to a trading establishment 

 in Edinburgh, and at the end of his term set up 

 business for himself as a draper in Aberdeen. All 

 through this period he carried with him his first 

 interest in cattle-culture, but was unable to make a 

 beginning in it until 1837, when he purchased a single 

 Shorthorn cow in the county of Durham and soon 

 afterward two other animals of the same blood. These 

 constituted the nucleus of his herd at Sittyton. One 

 by one he added other animals of the same stock, 

 purchased in different parts of England, Ireland and 

 Scotland. With these accessions by purchase, and 

 from natural increase, his herd grew rapidly and 

 prospered finely, so that he was obliged to add field 

 to field and farm to farm to produce feed for such a 

 number of mouths. In a few years he reached his 

 present maximum which he does not wish to exceed. 

 That is, his herd now averages annually three hundred 

 head of this noble and beautiful race of animals, or the 

 largest number of them owned by any one man in the 

 world. In 1841 he announced his first sale of young 

 bulls, and every year since that date has put up at 

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