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highest prices ever known. His brother Robert so bred his 

 stock no "alloy" about them until 1818 thirty-eight years 

 when he sold out at prices larger than any other short-horn herd 

 would sell for at the time. By a change of times, (it was war 

 times when Charles sold, and the country was at peace when 

 Robert sold,) all agricultural prices were much lower in 1818. 

 Their stocks stood in the very highest repute, and no men had 

 bred so intensely in-and-in, by every possible intermixture, as 

 they, adhering to their old blood to the last. Charles, in some 

 instances, bred his bull "Favorite" to his own dam, and sister, 

 and granddaughters, and so down, for four or five generations. 



So also, bred Mr. Bates, who bought his first "Duchess," 

 deeply bred in-and-in, of Charles Colling, in the year 1804. He 

 bred her and her near relations together, all closely allied in 

 blood, and never went out of his own herd for a bull, with 

 any success, as he frequently asserted, until the year 1831, 

 when he obtained the bull "Belvedere," of the same blood, in 

 another herd. He also introduced into his herd, the "Matchem 

 cow," an animal showing excellent points of character, a stranger 

 to his own stock, but which he contended had a back cross of 

 his favorite blood in her, and thus possessing good quality, with 

 which to reinvigorate the energies of his deeply in-aud-in bred 

 stock. He crossed his best bulls on that cow, and then interbred 

 her produce with others of his old blood, and adhered to that 

 blood thus crossed, and still further interbred, for the remainder 

 of his life. Mr. Bates died in 1849, and for more than fifty 

 years was a short-horn breeder. 



So, also, bred the Booth brothers, John and Richard, long 

 time breeders of great celebrity, and their stock still remains in 

 high repute, both in England and America. They bred deeply 

 in-and-in. So did the Wetherells, Mr. Mason, Wright, Trotter, 

 Charge, Earl Spencer, Sir Charles Knightley, and other noted 

 breeders of their day, although we know less of their particular 



