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Ihigli feeding enabled him to put his animals along- 

 side such competitors, and pains and penalties duly 

 folloAved. In one year alone he lost two Cherries, 

 a calf from Playful, and the grandest calf he ever 

 had, a roan heifer by Sir James from Rose of Sharon. 

 Let another Scot go in and try to fight the English 

 breeders successfully at such fearful odds, and he 

 will find what ^' nights of weariness and weary days^^ 

 mean, when he has had a month of travelling in 

 steamers and railway trucks, of lingering in show- 

 yards and of waiting at stations with his cattle, to 

 say nothing of the expense, and the risk of accidents 

 or of feeble judges. A few prizes, and an assurance 

 on the part of the agricultural papers, while his mind 

 is racked with anxiety and his eyes bloodshot with 

 fatigue, that he is " taking the grand tour,*' prove 

 but a very small compensation. All this Mr. Douglas 

 went through, without flinching, for two-thirds of the 

 fifteen years, from the era of his first-prize bull Red 

 Rover down to Crown Prince of Athelstane, the last 

 he ever bred from Queen of Athelstane. 



A few words upon his cracks. Rose of Autumn 

 had not the perfection and form of Rose of Summer, 

 but was rather light in her fore quarter. Her 

 daughter Rose of Summer was a perfect type of the 

 Athelstaneford mould, and was, in fact, a true square, 

 with her legs so well under her. Well might the 

 Herd-J3ook editor express his delight, when he saw 

 Mr. Douglas lead her, as fit and as ripe as a Derby 

 favourite, out of her truck at Lincoln ! As a calf 



