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down to the great rise of the Bates and Booth 

 power, is indeed a hopeless task. The records 

 of Coates' Herd Book and of the English sale- 

 rings and show-yards abound in evidence of the 

 fact that hundreds of strong, sturdy characters 

 in various parts of the United Kingdom were en- 

 gaged in the upbuilding of the breed. We can- 

 not indeed begin to mention in this connection 

 even the names of all who have earned the 

 gratitude of posterity for their intelligent de- 

 votion to the work of Short-horn improvement. 

 We have only given place in this chapter to the 

 foregoing personal references by way of em- 

 phasizing the fact that the breed did not lack 

 intelligent champions outside of the recognized 

 leaders in the work. Those named were per- 

 haps not more worthy than many of their con- 

 temporaries, but to particularize further would 

 burden our work too heavily with foundation 

 facts. 



We would feign dwell here upon what was 

 done by such men as the Jobsons, Charge of 

 Darlington, Lawson of Stapleton, Cattley of 

 Brandsby, Col. Cradock, R. Thornton, Messrs. 

 Crofton, George Coates, the Wrights of Cleasby, 

 Sir C. E. Tempest, Champion of Blyth, Unthank 

 of Penrith, Smith of West Rasen, A. L. and J- 

 C. Maynard, Maj. Bower, Hon. J. Simpson, Col. 

 Trotter, W. P. Paley, Rev. H. Berry, Lax of 

 Ravensworth, Maj. Rudd, Raine, B. Wilson ot 



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