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Anna, by Pilot, through Rose, a cow bought by 

 Whitaker at the Studley sale of 1834. Rose 

 had two daughters, White Rose, by James 

 Chrisp's Bull, and Red Rose, by Scrip (2604). 

 The Brights came from the former and the 

 Ribys from the latter. Although several crosses 

 of extraneous blood intervened in the breeding 

 of these Aylesby Annas between the Whitaker 

 purchase of 1834 and the subsequent return to 

 Warlaby lines in the hands of Mr. Torr in 1851 

 the reuniting of the Booth currents proved a 

 happy stroke. Mr. T. C. Booth took advantage 

 of the Aylesby dispersion to rejuvenate the 

 herd at Warlaby by transferring the best of 

 this sort to his own pastures. For Bright Em- 

 press he was forced to pay the record price of 

 $12,900 the highest ever given for a cow of 

 any breed at auction up to that date in Great 

 Britain. The twenty-two Annas made the as- 

 tounding average of $4,180 each. 



Mr. Torr's "G" and "M" tribes so called 

 from the fact that those were the initial letters 

 used respectively in the family nomenclature- 

 had a common origin in the herd of Mr. Rob- 

 son. The ancestral dam of the "Gs" was Gold- 

 en Beam, and of the "Ms" Moonbeam, both 

 bought about 1840 and sired by Prince Comet 

 (1342). The strongly-bred Warlaby bulls made 

 a great impression upon this sound old founda- 

 tion, producing many good Short-horns. The 



