322 ' Rise and Piw/rcss of Shorthorns. 



and "Ducliess 7 7 th," were duly cast and quickened. Still no 

 one contributed more towards shorthorn progress than Mason of 

 Chilton, who got rid of the open shoulders and improved the 

 forequarters generally. His sale in 1820 was to breeders quite 

 a season of refreshing after a long and dreary drought. Earl 

 Spencer took heart of grace, and bought a bull and sixteen cows 

 and heifers; and Captain Barclay (who began in 1822) laid a 

 still more solid foundation with " Lot 20, ' Lady Sarah.' " The 

 fame of Kearney's bull (4114) in Ireland, which was well known 

 to be of this stock, although he went over without a pedigree, 

 brought buvers across the Channel. Mr. Latouche would not 

 leave "Monarch" (2324) at 270 guineas; Mr. Robert Holmes, 

 of county Meath, raised his best tribes from Lots 1 and 8, 

 " Victoria," own sister to " jNIonarch," and " Britannia " by 

 "Monarch;" while the stock of "Highflyer" (210 guineas) 

 marked the commencement of a zealous novitiate in Kent. 



Whitaker of Burlev held his first sale soon after. He had 

 always gone for milking tribes in his (juiet \ orkshire valley, 

 and laid much stress upon the purchase of " Magdalena," by 

 " Comet " (155), the only cow which was kept out of the Ketton 

 sale catalogue. The Americans, and more especially Colonel 

 Powell and the Ohio Company, had heard of her and her 32 

 (|uarts a-dav in their repeated visits to Burley. They generally 

 left Yorkshire with tlu; brlief that " a man might ride four hacks 

 to death in the North, and not find twenty such cows as Mr. 

 Whitaker's ;" and they were among his best customers for a 

 series of years. 



Sir Charles Knightley gradually became quite a Whitaker to 

 the Midlands, when he gave up hounds about 1818, and laid 

 himself in with the "Rosy" antl "Ruby" tribes, and his friend 

 Arbuthnot's bulls. He always said that it was "([uite an 

 acquired taste," but he took to it with singular heartiness. He 

 strove to put shoulders on his cattle as perfect as those of his 

 own hunters, " Benvolio " and "Sir Marinel," Beautiful fore- 

 quarters, gav carriage, general elegance, and a strong family 

 likeness distinguished his tribes, and their fine milking powers 

 placed them (like "Cold Cream" and " Alix," at the Royal 

 Home Farm) at the head of many a dairy. "A Fawsley fill- 

 pail " soon passed into a herd proverb ; and a dip into the blood 

 of the " Earl of Dublin " (10,178), and the " Friars "—White or 

 Grey — was pretty sure to make one. 



The " Old Cherry," by "Pirate" (2430), tribe, which came 

 originally from William Colling of Stapleton, was in high force 

 when " Gainford " (2044) had spread those hind-quarters among 

 the Cumberland fair lots, which the graziers told at a glance, 

 and valued at a good pound more, and when Mr. Crofton had 



