96 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



on exhibition. That same season Mr. Bates 

 sent Oxford Premium Cow to the Highland at 

 Berwick, but she was beaten by John Booth's 

 Necklace on the ground that the Bates cow 

 was " deficient in girth and gaudy behind." 

 He also showed at the Yorkshire of 1841, 

 receiving the bull championship on Cleveland 

 Lad. Duke of Cambridge the Waterloo calf 

 shown in 1840 here won first as a yearling 

 over a young bull from Killerby and others. 

 The honors of the three-year-old cow class 

 were divided between Duchesses 42d and 43d. 

 It is stated that the jovial John Booth ban- 

 tered his esteemed contemporary the belligerent 

 Bates upon this occasion about his backward- 

 ness about exhibiting longer at leading shows, 

 and inferentially challenged him to show a cow 

 at the next year's Royal. These two men were 

 clearly at the head of their profession at the 

 time, but despite their rivalries were good 

 friends. The meeting took place at York in 

 1842, and to the infinite satisfaction of the 

 great champion of the Duchesses a cow of that 

 line in her tenth year had the extraordinary 

 honor of beating Killerby's great Necklace. 

 The story of this memorable contest is told by 

 Mr. Bates' people in the following language: 



" There was in milk at Kirklevington a ten^ear-old unregen- 

 erate dairy cow, which had never heen shown nor had ever been 

 intended to be. When about twelve months old she had broken 

 her leg, and as Bates would not employ a veterinary Thomas Bell 



