62 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Nothing is known of the cow from which she 

 was bred, but the Suworrow heifer became the 

 ancestress of a fine cow, Countess, dropped in 

 1812 to the cover of Albion, from whence de- 

 scended Toy, the dam of Necklace and Brace- 

 let, those twin tributes to the greatness and 

 genius of the Booths as cattle-breeders. From 

 the same source also came Col. Towneley's 

 Pearly and Mr. Torr's Young Bracelet family. 



The earlier representatives of these Fair- 

 holme, Halnaby and Bracelet tribes constituted 

 Thomas Booth's breeding herd at Killerby up 

 to the year 1814, by which time he had acquired 

 a reputation as a skillful improver second to 

 none. At that early date the modern system 

 of high-feeding for the show-yards had not yet 

 come into vogue.* The breeding cows at Kil- 

 lerby were on pasture the greater portion of 

 the year, and were wintered mainly on hay. 

 Heifers were put to breeding at an early age 

 generally calving as two-year-olds. 



Richard Booth at Studley. In the year 

 1814 Richard, son of Thomas Booth, leased the 

 farm of Studley, some fifteen miles south of 

 Killerby, near Ripon, and began breeding Short- 

 horns on his own account. He had been a close 

 student of his father's methods, and at Studley 

 carried the Booth stock to even greater perfec- 



* Carr says that Mr. Crofton was ih3 first to introduce tiie idea of "train- 

 ing" Short-horns for show "house-feeding- cows and heifers in summer 

 months." 



