136 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



owner 'Look at that head and hair!'" She 

 had ten calves, among them being the prize- 

 winning Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, Wel- 

 come, Vivacity, Verity, Soldier's Nurse, and the 

 great cow Campfollower. Prince Alfred gained 

 many prizes in 1864 and 1865, was used at 

 Windsor, was let one year to the Emperor Na- 

 poleon III for the French Government Experi- 

 mental Farm and afterward spent two years at 

 Lady Pigot's; Her Ladyship being an enthusi- 

 astic breeder of Booth Short-horns, and produc- 

 ing among other celebrities Rosedale, by Va- 

 lasco. Mr. Booth did not make a practice of 

 showing his stock bulls, but Dixon says that 

 "old Prince Alfred after making a perfect 

 Ulysses of himself in the home farms of 

 princes, emperors and baronets came out and 

 was first in the bull class in the eleventh year 

 of his age." 



One of the most valuable cows ever produced 

 at Warlaby was Vivandiere's daughter Camp- 

 follower, by Crown Prince. She was described 

 as "a truly noble cow, with queenly gait." 

 Moreover, she would have been a profitable 

 cow in any working dairy. Indeed, she died at 

 last from milk fever, after giving birth to the 

 heifer Soldier's Nurse, that was presented by 

 Richard Booth to his nephews at Killerby. In 

 the hands of the latter the " Nurse" produced 

 Soldier's Dream and the thick, heavy-fleshed 



