92 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Oxfords. The line of the former has now been 

 extinct for many years. 



A show-yard disappointment. Mr. Bates 

 sent seven head of cattle to the newly-estab- 

 lished Yorkshire Show in 1838, headed by the 

 two-year-old double-Belvedere Duchess bull 

 Duke of Northumberland (1940), and including 

 a pair of two-year-old Duchess heifers, Duch- 

 esses 41st and 42d, both by Belvedere; a year- 

 ling Duchess heifer, Duchess 43d, also with a 

 double dip of Belvedere; the roan four-year-old 

 cow Red Rose 13th, by Belvedere; the white 

 three-year-old cow Short-horns 4th, by Belve- 

 dere, and a three-year-old from the Matchem 

 Cow, got by Duke of Cleveland (1937), a bull 

 that had been dropped by Duchess 26th to a 

 service by Mr. Whitaker's Bertram (1 716). The 

 Duke of Northumberland received first in his 

 class against eight competitors, but was passed 

 over entirely in the bull championship contest; 

 first prize in a ring of fifteen entries going 

 to Earl Spencer's Hecatomb (2102), of Mason 

 blood, and second to Mr. Wiley's Carcase (3285), 

 afterward imported to America. This was a 

 hard blow, and it was contended by Mr. Bates 

 that Mr. John Grey, the judge, was improperly 

 influenced by being beholden to Earl Spencer 

 for substantial business favors. With his fe* 

 males, however, Mr. Bates was more successful. 

 In the aged-cow class (entries to be in calf or 



