58 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Ben (660) and one of his sons, both bred by 

 Robert Colling. This brought in a strong in- 

 fusion of the blood of Hubback, through Punch 

 (531) and Foljambe (263), in addition to which 

 the grand am of Twin Brother to Ben went to 

 Hubback direct. 



The Fairholme experiment, Among Mr. 

 Booth's earlier selections were five heifer calves 

 from a set of cows owned by a Mr. Broader of 

 Fairholme, a dairy farmer and tenant of Lord 

 Harewood in the parish of Ainderby; one of 

 which Fairholme by name became the an- 

 cestress of several illustrious families. The 

 darns of these calves were described as "fine 

 cattle; good dairy cows and great grazers when 

 dry; somewhat incompact in frame and steer- 

 ish in appearance, but of very robust constitu- 

 tion." Mr. Booth evidently put substance 

 ahead of points of less practical importance, 

 and from the very first regarded flesh-making 

 capacity and breadth of back and loin of more 

 value than persistent flow of milk. While 

 there were some cows of marked dairy capacity 

 in his original herd, they soon acquired a dis- 

 position to " dry off" quickly and put on great 

 wealth of flesh, a trait which ever afterward 

 distinguished the best of the Booth cattle. 



The result of the use of the Colling bulls 

 upon the Fairholme heifers fulfilled all expect- 

 ations. From this "nick" descended the Fair- 



