90 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



But three of these stood to the service to-wit. : 

 Duchess 33d, Waterloo and Blanche which 

 circumstance was regarded by Mr. Bates at the 

 time as fortunate, the immediate result not 

 proving satisfactory. This paralleled the sub- 

 sequent experience of John Booth in breeding 

 Bracelet to Mussulman ; but, as in the case of 

 Booth's Buckingham, when the percentage of 

 fresh blood was reduced so that it was quite 

 subordinated to the main current, its stimulat- 

 ing effect became apparent. The heifer Duchess 

 38th, dropped by Duchess 33d to Norfolk, gave 

 rise to the entire Thorndale, Geneva and Oneida 

 Duchess groups; and the Norfolk- Waterloo 

 heifer founded a family that has occupied a 

 prominent place in the progress of the breed. 

 Norfolk was individually one of the great bulls 

 of his time, and as he was a son of 2d Hubback 

 his character supplied striking proof of the 

 value of Bates bulls for service in other herds. 

 He kad substance, flesh and a heavy coat of 

 hair, showing greater thickness and compact- 

 ness of conformation than Belvedere. 



The Matchem Cow and the Oxfords, In 

 April, 1831, Mr. Bates had attended a sale of 

 "improved" Short-horn cattle, held by a Mr. 

 John Brown of Nunstainton, near Chilton, in 

 the County of Durham, and bought seventeen 

 cows and heifers at an average of 9 5s. Among 

 these was a white four-year-old by Matchem 



