138 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



offer of 15,000 for his herd, which, while at 

 that time reduced to some thirty head, included, 

 among other "future-great" individuals, Lady 

 Blithe's sensational yearling heifer Lady Fra- 

 grant and Campfollower's baby bull Com- 

 mander-in-Chief a pair destined to add, in 

 other hands, fresh laurels to the house of 

 Booth. The delightful "Boswell" of this re- 

 markable family of Short-horn breeders (Wil- 

 liam Carr) takes leave of Richard Booth, "the 

 good old man," in the following characteristic 

 language : 



"He sleeps in peace beneath the shade of the old grey tower 

 of Ainderby, that looks down upon the scene of his useful and 

 quiet labors. But Warlaby is there still, and his kith and kin 

 retain its hall and herd. And it may be added for it is a circum- 

 stance too well known to savor at all of flattery that his nephew 

 and successor, Mr. T. C. Booth, is no unworthy or unskillful heir, 

 while his amiable wife lends a new charm to the old place; and 

 his rising family gives the promise of the continuance of the long- 

 continued Warlaby herd for generations yet to come. " 



The Booth method of breeding. The Messrs. 

 Booth always adhered to. the proposition that 

 they secured their best results by interbreed- 

 ing their own established tribes. At the same 

 time they were aware of the fact that inbreed- 

 ing the cattle in their possession was quite a 

 different proposition from, and was probably 

 attended by more dangers than, inbreeding as 

 practiced by the Collings. In the latter case 

 the cattle that were incestuously bred had no 

 prior relationships. With the Booth stock as 



