82 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



aker had hired Ketton 3d and subsequently ex- 

 changed him to Lord Althorpe for His Grace. 



From Halton to Ridley Hall. Although the 

 Kirklevington property had been bought in 

 1811, the lease of Halton did not expire until 

 1821, and Mr. Bates continued in possession 

 there until that date. Either because he was 

 loath to leave Northumberland, or because his 

 Kirklevington land had not yet been brought 

 into the desired state of fertility, he purchased 

 Ridley Hall on the South Tyne, to which he 

 removed from Halton in May, 1821. In a let- 

 ter written to Jonas Whitaker in 1822 Bates 

 said: 



"I have now two bulls (The Earl and Duke 2d) by Duke out of 

 Duchess 3d, the dam of Ketton 3d, and a heifer by Marske (Duch- 

 ess 7th) out of the same cow and bulled by The Earl, and for the 

 three I would not take 3,000 guineas, bad as times are for farmers. 

 Old Ketton 's stock were the up-making of me, and now that I 

 have again got the blood pure of other mixtures I shall never again 

 part with it for any other tribe of Short-horns I have ever seen." 



The "hope of the Short-horns" proved to be 

 a bull which was named The Earl (646) and 

 used extensively for four or five years at Ridley 

 Hall. He was succeeded by his son 2d Hub- 

 back (1423). This bull was bred from a cow 

 called Acklam Red Rose (or Red Rose 1st), of 

 Colling derivation, that Bates had bought from 

 a Mr. Hustler, and he grew into what is said to 

 have been the best of all the earlier bulls used 

 in the herd. His dam (from whom the Cam- 

 bridge Roses and the American Rose of Shar- 



