20 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



tention to the quality of their herds about this 

 same period. Other prominent breeders prior 

 to the year 1780 were Sir William St. Quintin, 

 Sir James Pennyman* and Mr. Milbank of 

 Barningham. The latter secured some of his 

 cattle from the Blacketts, but his reputation 

 rests largely upon his use of the famous red- 

 and-white Studley Bull (626), calved in 1737, 

 that became the progenitor of many celebrated 

 animals. Between the years 1730 and 1780 

 many eminent breeders gave their attention to 

 the improvement of their cattle, among them, 

 besides those already mentioned, being Sharter, 

 Pickering, Stephenson, Wetherell, Maynard, 

 Dobinson, Charge, Wright, Hutchinson, Robson, 

 Snowdon, Waistell, Richard and William Bar- 

 ker, Brown, Hall, Hill, Best, Watson, Baker, 

 Thompson, Jackson, Smith, Jolly, Masterman, 

 Wallace and Robertson. These names we find 

 as breeders of the earliest cattle whose names 

 and pedigrees are recorded in the first volume 

 of the English Herd Book. It may be well to 

 know that as this herd book was not published 

 until the year 1822 some thirty or forty years 



* To induce his tenants to pay more attention to the quality of their 

 stock Sir James is said to have frequently made small wagers as to whose 

 oxen would weigh the most and bring the best prices. Cadwallader Bates 

 says: "The farm accounts commencing from 1745 regularly recorded the 

 sales of Pennyman Short-horns, with their weight and proof in tallow, for 

 they were very often sold by weight. As the soil there is a strong clay no 

 turnips were grown, and the cattle were kept in winter on only hay and 

 straw. Notwithstanding this, the five-year-old steers generally averaged 

 about 1,960 IDS." 



