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common type upon his stock Mr. Cruickshank 

 has been greatly favored by a long and vigorous 

 life, and he has been wise enough never to sac- 

 rifice individual quality to type character. The 

 destruction of many who began well lay in 

 adopting the opposite course. Mr. Cruickshank 

 has studiously avoided the pitfalls of in-and-in 

 and incestuous methods of breeding, and has 

 worked consistently along broad and well- 

 marked lines. 



As has already been indirectly pointed out, 

 no argument is needed to establish the certainty 

 of the success of Mr. Cruickshank as a breeder. 

 The records of his herd in the show-yard and 

 his well-established reputation both witness 

 very strongly to this, which those who have 

 seen any large number of his cattle do not 

 need to have proved. But there is one fact in 

 this connection which is worthy of notice, and 

 which certainly tends to enhance the impor- 

 tance of the success and reputation which the 

 Sittyton herd has won, and that is that while 

 the great majority of the herds which have 

 won permanent fame have been located in or 

 near that little corner of England to which the 

 Short-horn belonged in primitive times, this 

 herd has risen, thriven, and grown famous away 

 up in the northern part of Scotland where the 

 granite hills are bare to the bleak winds of the 

 Northern Ocean. There was no prestige of 



