THE OLD SHORT-HORN COUNTRY. 21 



after the decease of many of those we have 

 mentioned tradition, and the memory of men 

 then living, as well as the written records of 

 their predecessors, were the authorities on 

 which the lineage of the earlier animals were 

 admitted to record. 



Some foundation stock, The Studley Bull 

 (626), dropped in 1737, was one of the first great 

 stock-getters of the breed of which there is 

 record. The herd book furnishes no particu- 

 lars concerning him, but he is described by 

 competent contemporary authority as having 

 been a red-and-white " possessed of wonderful 

 girth and depth of forequarters, very short, 

 neat frame and light offal." One of his sons, 

 "Mr. Lakeland's bull," said to have attained 

 great size and to have carried a good back, 

 begot William Barker's Bull (51), that acquired 

 reputation as the sire of another one of the 

 breed-founders known as "James Brown's Red 

 Bull (97)." This noted bull was bred by John 

 Thompson of Girlington Hall. At this date it 

 was not customary to preserve the name or 

 even a description of the cows from which 

 sires in service were descended. The, pedigree 

 was traced through the bull line exclusively. 

 Hence there is no record as to the maternal 

 ancestry of these foundation sires. Mr. Coates, 

 who collected the material for the first volume 

 of the herd book, which still bears his name, 



