54 CATTLE-BREEDING. 



My father had an old brindle milk cow with 

 upturned wide horns, a coarse, mean brute, of 

 the true "scrub" type. This cow was bred to 

 Renick, and produced a red heifer calf of ex- 

 traordinary quality. I was a young man in 

 those days, and I told my -father that I was 

 going to take the old brindle cow's calf and 

 beat all the pure-breds. Of this he was skep- 

 tical. But the calf grew out finely and proved 

 invincible, being, so far as any could penetrate, 

 of the most perfect Short-horn type. 



After Renick came Muscatoon, with an in- 

 terval of good but not specially notable sires. 

 Muscatoon quickly gained for himself a National 

 reputation. The herd had grown in numbers 

 and repute so that this celebrated bull reaped 

 much from the sowing of his predecessors. He 

 was certainly phenomenal, not simply as a 

 breeder, but in that his bull calves displayed 

 a large degree of the same power. For that 

 reason I have not included in this list 2d Duke 

 of Grasmere 13961, his son by Grace, a Rose of 

 Sharon cow, and used in the herd from 1874 to 

 1883, because his influence was little more than 

 a continuance of Muscatoon's impression. It 

 would be impossible to enumerate even a par- 

 tial list of the prize-winners this bull got. His 

 period fell at a time when there was great in- 

 terest in cattle-breeding, when the exhibitions 

 were thronged, and the whole country was 



