88 A HISTORY OF SHOKT-HORN CATTLE. 



but was a yellow-roan, evidently full of quality; 

 "soft as a mole to the touch." He had the 

 "hot-blood temper" of his sire Waterloo, and 

 it took three men to get him safely started off 

 down Sandy Lane the morning he left Ste- 

 phenson's to begin the work of regenerating 

 the Duchesses. 



The breeding of bulls to their own dams or 

 daughters was a common occurrence at Kirk- 

 levington prior to the time of Belvedere. None 

 but inbred Duchess bulls had been used upon 

 cows of this favorite family except Marske 

 (418), of the Bright Eyes blood, and 2d Hub- 

 back, by the Duchess bull The Earl (646) out 

 of Hustler's Red Rose. The cross of Belvedere 

 upon the Duchess and other tribes which Mr. 

 Bates had meantime acquired proved the sound- 

 ness of his judgment. The Princess bull was 

 used extensively until twelve years old and 

 then slaughtered. This was in 1837. He did 

 much for the herd, siring, among other noted 

 animals, the famous Duchess 34th, which, bred 

 back to her own sire, gave Mr. Bates his great- 

 est bull Duke of Northumberland (1940). The 

 Duke was but two years old at the time Belvo= 

 dere was sent off, so that an elder son of Bel- 

 vedereShort Tail (2621), from Duchess 29th 

 (and said to have been a better bull than hie 

 sire) was placed in service. His dam, Duchess 

 29th, was got by 2d Hubback out of one of 



