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horn breeding. The doctrine that like produces like or the likeness 

 of some ancestor was thoroughly substantiated, and from Hub- 

 bard on down to Comet it was shown that pedigree, rightly used, 

 was the only safe plan for breeding improved cattle. 



When Mr. Colling's herd was dispersed, we see wonderful de- 

 velopment again, when Mr. Bates, who lived hardly five miles away 

 from the Colling brothers, went on with the work. He had ridden 

 over to the Colling's one morning and found Miss Colling milking 

 a beautiful cow called "Lady Maynard," and Mr. Bates was much 

 impressed with the cow, and he succeeded afterwards in obtaining 

 her and her heifer calf called "Duchess." That was the foundation 

 of a wonderful herd of cattle. 



About the same time Booth brothers, in Northumberland, ob- 

 tained some Colling blood, so we see Mr. Bates and the Booths, 

 who were destined to become leaders of two great rival factions 

 of shorthorns, obtaining their material at the same fountain head. 



Bates was proud of the milking qualities of his shorthorns, 

 and was also fond of their stj'le and fashion ; and he was prouder 

 of those qualities than of their thick, heavy flesh. 



T. C. Booth laid greatest importance upon the thick, heavy 

 flesh, and asked his friends if the broad backs of his cows were not 

 worth a few pints of milk. He cared little about the shape of the 

 head, and the result was that the Booth cattle grew to have homely 

 and unprepossessing heads, while Mr. Bates carefully watched the 

 development of the finer points of beauty of his cattle. 



The quarrel between the Bates idea and the Booth idea grew 

 to be almost as bitter as the War of the Roses, which had so ter- 

 rificly crossed England. Men became alienated from each other, 

 and friends lost their friendship for each other, because of devo- 

 tion to one or the other of these strains. I wandered all one sum- 

 mer afternoon over the fields of Northumberland with one of the 

 descendants of Mr. Booth, and found that those cattle were at that 

 time absolute facsimiles of those which had gone before. On the 

 walls of their plain and unostentatious dining room there were 

 pictures of Matchmaker, Tim, Brother Ben and bulls that had 

 lived seventy-five to eighty years before, and yet out in the pasture 

 was the precise prototype and facsimile of those bulls. And that 

 is proof positive that it is to pedigree alone that we can trust for 

 good succession, and I allude to pedigree, gentlemen, because I 

 was amused this morning at the discussion of this question. (Ap- 

 plause.) 



Mr. Bates and Mr. Booth continued breeding the same cat- 



