THE BOOTHS 67 



" inter-breeding their own established tribes," their in-breed- 

 ing at a more advanced stage in the history of the breed 

 than that of the Collings being fraught with greater danger 

 and demanding greater caution. 



The following are the names of a few of the most 

 celebrated of the families of Booth Shorthorns : The Red 

 Rose, Blossom, Bright Eyes, Strawberry, Bracelet, Isabella, 

 Farewell, Broughton, Charity, and Dairymaid or Moss Rose. 



The unsurpassed showyard career of the Booth cattle at 

 the Royal and other leading shows began under John and 

 Richard Booth, and lasted for many years, until it became a 

 serious drain upon the best blood of the type through the 

 overfeeding in training for shows which took place, to the 

 injury of the breeding-power of many of the best animals, 

 and led to the extinction of some of the leading tribes, z>., 

 the Blossoms and the Charities. 



" Bracelet " was the most distinguished of the early Booth 

 females being famous as a prize-winner and also as a 

 breeder of high-class stock. She was the dam of three 

 famous and now historic animals " Birthday " by " Lord 

 Stanley" (4269), and the two prize bulls, " Hamlet " (8126) 

 by "Leonard," (4210), and "Buckingham" (3239) by 

 "Mussulman" (4525). . It was through "Buckingham" that 

 the Booth section of the Cherry blood came into the herd. 

 The greatest of all the Warlaby bulls, "Crown Prince" 

 (10087), was descended from "Buckingham." 



John Booth died in 1857, but he practically retired from 

 active participation in breeding Shorthorns, in which he so 

 conspicuously excelled, in 1852, when the first Killerby dis- 

 persal sale took place. 1 It came at a depressed time for 

 agriculture, and, although it was attended by many breeders, 

 the forty-four lots averaged but 48, I2s. 



Under Richard Booth at Warlaby (formerly of Studley), 

 the Booth strain gained its greatest excellence and highest 

 reputation, and developed a great trade in the hiring of bulls 

 in all parts of Great Britain and Ireland. Although Bates 

 cattle were more favoured abroad, they did not appear much 



1 The second Killerby herd was sold off in October 1886, after the 

 death of its owner, J. B. Booth ; and we may be excused for adding, 

 from personal experience, on one of the wildest days of wind and rain 

 experienced in recent years. 



