158 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Fawkes of Farnley Hall." The vale of the 

 Wharfe is adorned with elegant mansions, and 

 the views obtained from the neighboring eleva- 

 tions are at once noble and inspiring." So runs 

 a paragraph in an old Yorkshire chronicle. It 

 was here that Whitaker had his cattle, and 

 hard by the little market town of Otley was 

 established also the fine old herd of Mr. F. H. 

 Fawkes of Farnley Hall. Whitaker's Norfolk 

 (2377), the grand roan bull for which the Ohio 

 Co. offered $2,000 in vain, was the first bull 

 purchase, and in 1834 Verbena and Meclora 

 were bought at Richard Booth's Studley sale. 

 They were only "babies" at the time, but Me- 

 dora developed into a noble cow and produced 

 nine calves. It seems that after Whitaker dis- 

 posed of his herd in 1833 he bought some three 

 dozen well-bred Short-horn cows for the use of 

 the help at the Burley Mills. Mr. Fawkes was 

 so favorably impressed with this useful set of 

 cows that he arranged to have a number of 

 them to be chosen .by himself bred to Nor- 

 folk. He was to pay ten guineas for each calf 

 at a week old, provided it "did not have a black 

 nose and had no symptoms of unsoundness." 

 Some sixty head were thus transferred to Faws- 

 ley, and the first ten bull calves by Norfolk av- 

 eraged 100 guineas each. One of these was out 

 of a half-sister to the cow Young Phyllis, an- 

 cestress of the American family of that name, 



