60 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



in-law of Mr. Booth's, from Comet (155) and 

 Charles Colling's Daisy. 



Great care was taken in mating the animals 

 to try and breed out defects and establish de- 

 sired characteristics; and having, by a judicious 

 course of selection and the use of strongly-bred 

 Colling bulls, acquired a good degree of uni- 

 formity in essential points, the Bakewell idea 

 of breeding from close affinities was success- 

 fully adopted. No sooner had the successful 

 issue of the cross of the first Colling bulls upon 

 the Fairholme and other cows become apparent 

 than Mr. Booth began concentrating the blood 

 of their progeny. Sir Henry (597) and his son 

 Lame Bull (359) and Young Albion (15) were 

 among the earlier sires representing the fruits 

 of Mr. Booth's first inbreeding. 



The Halnaby or Strawberry tribe. An- 

 other foundation dam was a yellow-red and 

 white cow that appealed to Mr. Booth's prac- 

 ticed eye in the Darlington market about 1797. 

 She was bought and crossed with Colling blood, 

 and became the matron of a celebrated family. 

 The first named cow in the maternal line was 

 Halnaby, by Lame Bull (359). Bred to Albion 

 (14) she produced the noted stock-getter Young 

 Albion (15), the first of the Booth-bred bulls to 

 be let out on hire,* a practice which afterward 



* Young Albion, according- to Carr, "went to Mr. Scroope's of Danby 

 Hall, near Middleham, who had a fine, large, robust herd of cattle, related 

 through some of the bulls used to the Colling blood. In 1812 the Squire of 



