10 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLBo 



Hubback grazed; there the farms once occu- 

 pied by Charles and Robert Colling; yonder 

 Yarm with its quaint old market-place and 

 Black Bull Inn. This cluster of cottages, nest- 

 ling amidst sheltering vines and flowering 

 laburnums, holds the unpretentious roof of 

 Thomas Bates, and marks also the historic 

 little church-yard of Kirklevington with the 

 tomb of the man to whom Short-horn history 

 is primarily indebted for the 'most dramatic 

 event ever registered in the annals of agricul- 

 ture.* We try to recall the figure of the keen 

 old bachelor, but we seek in vain through the 

 now-deserted fields for Belvedere, the Duke of 

 Northumberland or Duchess 34th. That typi- 

 cal English hamlet of ye olden time Great 

 Smeaton shows the house where Coates, the 

 father of Short-horn pedigree records, com- 

 piled his earliest notes. Away over the hills 

 is Eryholme, with its memories of "the beau- 

 tiful Lady Maynard," and nearing the Tees at 

 Croft a portrait of the $5,000 Comet still greets 

 the eye on the sign-board of a wayside inn; 

 while over the way is Stapleton, the farm 

 where the famous old bull was buried. 



Passing from the train at Northallerton and 

 mounting a trap in waiting we are soon on a 

 perfect English roadway bound for one of the 



* The International contest for the possession of tne Batea Duchesses at 

 blow York Mills in 1873, when 198 head of Short-horn cattle sold for the 

 astonishing total of $380,490. 



