EARLY SHORTHORN BREEDERS 73 



recent years Cruickshank cattle have come into high favour 

 as beef-producers at home and abroad. 



Shorthorn breeders other than the Collings, the Booths, 

 and Bates were numerous ; they reared good cattle, and some 

 of them from time to time supplied animals to the great 

 masters in the art of breeding. Some even took the lead 

 Mason and Whitaker for example in the trade of exporting 

 their own and other favourite and pure-bred Shorthorns to 

 America. The following is a short list of names of early 

 breeders well known in the history of English Shorthorns : 

 Dobinson ; Christopher Mason of Chilton ; Earl Spencer ; 

 Wetherell of Aldborough, and his two sons, Wm. of Holme 

 House, Darlington, and John of Field House, Yarmouth; 

 Jonas Whitaker, near Otley, Yorkshire ; the Joblings ; Mill- 

 bank of Barningham ; Maynard of Eryholme ; Watson of 

 Manfield ; Appleby of Stanwick ; Wm. Torr of Riby, Lincoln- 

 shire ; John Brown of Nunstainton ; Sir Chas. Knightley of 

 Fawsley Park, Daventry ; Samuel Wiley of Brandsby, York- 

 shire ; Fawkes of Farnley Hall, near Otley, Yorkshire ; and 

 hundreds of others. 



