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in public at home, and Booth had it practically all his own 

 way at the leading shows of this country. The most perfectly 

 finished female, typical of many of his grand, thick-fleshed 

 cattle, is described as follows by Carr : 



" Of ' Charity/ who so long graced the Warlaby pastures, 

 it is sufficient to say that she was the personification of all 

 that is beautiful in Shorthorn shape. Such was her regularity 

 of form that a straight wand laid along her side, longitudi- 

 nally, from the lower flank to the forearm, and from the hips 

 to the upper part of the shoulder blades, touched at almost 

 every point ; her quarters were so broad, her crops and 

 shoulders so full, her ribs so boldly projected, and the space 

 between them and the well-cushioned hips so arched over 

 with flesh as to form a continuous line. * Charity ' won every 

 prize for which she was shown save one, when she was 

 beaten as a calf by another of the same herd, after which 

 her career was one of unvaried success. She was thrice 

 decked with the white rosette at the Royal and thrice at the 

 Yorkshire meetings." 



The famous stock bull " Crown Prince," already mentioned, 

 was a son of " Charity," and was primarily responsible for the 

 high degree of excellence attained by Booth cattle. 



Richard Booth died in 1864, aged 76, and the Warlaby 

 herd, for which i 5,000 had been offered, passed to his nephew, 

 T. C. Booth, who upheld its reputation and, through " Com- 

 mander-in-Chief" (21451), extended its fame internationally. 



Thomas Bates (1775 to 1849) of Kirklevington l (1830), 

 in the Vale of Cleveland, began about 1800 his extraordinary 

 career as a Shorthorn breeder, which lasted for half a century. 

 He procured the progenitors of his best cattle from the 

 Ceilings. He was a man of means, and had an education 

 superior to that of his farmer neighbours. 



In 1810, after occupying for nine years Halton Castle 

 farm, a mile north-east of Aydon Castle, he became, at the 

 age of thirty-five, for two years a student of Edinburgh 

 University, with the object, says one record, of going in for 

 the Church. He studied Moral Philosophy, and attended 

 the class of Agriculture under Professor Andrew Coventry 



1 See Thos. Bates and the Kirklevington Shorthorns, by Cadvvallader 

 John Bates, 1897, Robert Redpath, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; and The 

 History of Improved Shorthorn Cattle, from the Notes of the late Thomas 

 Bates, by Thomas Bell, N.E. Farmer Office, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



