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neighborhood or antecedents. What has been 

 won has been won by honest effort. The only 

 materials used have been good cattle, sound 

 principles, and hard work, and with them a 

 worthy fabric has been reared. 



And passing this notable example we may 

 read the same lesson in the work that has been 

 done and is being done by many contemporary 

 breeders. To every one who has been alive to 

 the recent tendencies of breeding in England, 

 especially as shown in the show-yard, the 

 growth of a body of very successful exhibitors 

 who used the great rule of merit for merit's 

 sake must have been obvious. Among these 

 the name of Wm. Duthie of Collynie, Aberdeen- 

 shire, a neighbor, and in some points a disciple, 

 of Mr. Cruickshank, has been especially notable. 

 He has used many of Mr. Cruickshank's cattle 

 and some of his theories with marked advan- 

 tage. His fine stock bull Field Marshal, which 

 American buyers several times sought to bring 

 to this country in vain, was not long since hired 

 to the Queen for use in the Royal herd, which 

 well illustrates how the Northern fame and 

 Northern cattle are winning ground. Among 

 other breeders who seem to have much the 

 same views of the true method of breeding 

 may be named such well-known and successful 

 breeders as Messrs. Brierly, Game, Handley, R. 

 Stratton, and Hutchinson. With such men 



