THOMAS BATES AND THE DUCHESSES. 89 



that bull's own daughters, Duchess 19th, so 

 that the practice of breeding from close affini- 

 ties went steadily on. 



The cross of Whitaker's Norfolk. In 1834 

 Felix Renick and his colleagues, representing 

 the Ohio Importing Co., visited England to buy 

 Short-horns. Bates showed them every atten- 

 tion and offered them some of his best cows 

 and heifers, including Duchess 34th. He seems 

 to have indulged his loquacity to its fullest 

 extent upon his American visitors, tendering 

 advice freely as to the other English herds of 

 that period. Among other characteristic "point- 

 ers" given was one to the effect that Belve- 

 dere's sire, Waterloo (2816). then in his six- 

 teenth year, and Norfolk (2377) were "the only 

 two bulls besides Belvedere that were in the 

 least likely to get good stock." What the 

 Americans bought on this memorable visit will 

 be dealt with in a subsequent chapter. 



Norfolk (2377), a handsome roan bull, was 

 then but two years old. He had been bred by 

 Mr. Whitaker and sold to Mr. F. H. Fawkes of 

 Farnley Hall. His sire was Mr. Bates' 2d Hub- 

 back, and his dam Nonpareil by Magnet (2240), 

 running down through the Colling blood to a 

 Hubback cow at the base. That Bates was sin- 

 cere in his advice to. the Americans cannot 

 be doubted, for shortly afterward he sent five 

 of his own best cows to be bulled by Norfolk. 



