80 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



seven years in service. This is the bull of which 

 "Tommy" Thompson, the cowman, said, "he 

 never got a middling calf" all were regarded 

 as above the average. 



From 1816 to 1820 the bulls Ketton 2d (710) 

 and Ketton 3d (349) (the former a son and the 

 latter a grandson of Ketton 1st) were used, but 

 their get were not equal to the progeny of the 

 son of the old Duchess cow. Ketton 2d was 

 out of an unnamed cow by a grandson of Fa- 

 vorite; second dam by J. Brown's Red Bull, but 

 Ketton 3d was a Duchess, sired by Ketton 2d 

 out of Duchess 3d by Ketton 1st; second dam 

 Duchess 1st by Comet. The earnestness with 

 which Mr. Bates adopted the Bakewell scheme 

 of in-and-in breeding is here apparent. He nev- 

 ertheless tried the experiment of breeding to 

 Marske (418), then thirteen years old, a roan of 

 Colling blood that Maynard had bought at the 

 Barmpton sale. This brought in a dash of good 

 fresh blood. Although Marske was a son of 

 Favorite (252) his dam was Robert Colling's 

 noted cow Old Bright Eyes, that gave fifteen 

 quarts of milk twice per day. Bates had owned 

 a sister to Marske for some years, and regarded 

 the family as one of the best of the day al- 

 ways of course excepting his favorite Duch- 

 esses. The Marske cows, however, did not 

 fully meet his expectations, and he sent Duch- 

 ess 3d, by Ketton 1st, to Donkin's to be bred to 



