198 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Bates is a wealthy bachelor, owns a fine farm 

 of 1,000 acres, all under best cultivation. He 

 keeps a dairy of forty or fifty cows, generally 

 of the best Short-horn blood, from which he 

 raises some very fine stock, and had then on 

 hand some young bulls and heifers better than 

 any we have seen elsewhere." Bates was evi- 

 dently flattered by the compliments bestowed 

 by these intelligent foreign, visitors the more 

 so, doubtless, as they had already been at Stud- 

 ley and Killerby and to the surprise of his 

 friends he offered to sell them six of his best 

 females. The Americans were not yet ready 

 to buy, however, and continued their investi- 

 gations. Bates furnished them with horses 

 and rode with his guests for several days among 

 the herds of the Valley of the Tees; "but," 

 says Felix Renick, "from our own observa- 

 tions, as well as the judgment of Mr. Bates, 

 their stock [that of the neighboring breeders] 

 is generally 'going back." He expressed dis- 

 appointment- at the character of many of the 

 herds visited. They then turned Southward, 

 "Mr. Bates going with us." Evidently the 

 sage of Kirklevington was determined that his 

 guests should not "go wrong" in their buying 

 from his standpoint if he could prevent it. 

 In company with Bates they called on Jonas 

 Whitaker, who had dispersed his herd the pre- 

 vious autumn. 



