610 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



of the great North-country show bull Forth, 

 through his son Allan (21172), seemed to bring 

 back much of the beauty of the sort as dis- 

 played at Towneley. Bred to the bull last 



latter was bred by Mr. Waldy of Barmpton, near Darlington. She was full 

 of Robert Colllng's old Red Rose blood, and was a heavy-bodied, broad- 

 ribbed, deep-milking strawberry roan. 



" He whom the gods call Culshaw, 



And men on earth call ' Joe,' " 



was under " Tom " Mason at Sir Charles Tempest's when Barmpton Rose 

 was brought from the Walkeringham sale to Broughton Hall, and her 

 buxom beauty made a deep impression upon the "future great" trainer 

 and breeder. When a mere lad Culshaw betrayed an irrepressible enthu- 

 siasm for the "red. white and roans." Upon one occasion he was sent 

 with a cow that was to be bred to a bull at Whitaker's, and the brightness 

 of the boy and his interest in the cattle so attracted the attention of the 

 proprietor that he personally showed the youthful ambassador through 

 the Greenholme Herd in detail. That was indeed a great day for " little 

 Joe." Would that all of those who have such opportunities would evince 

 the same disposition to encourage young men who manifest a love for good 

 cattle! 



Col. Towneley was a man of great wealth and many acres and engaged 

 Eastwood as his general manager. The latter was fond of Kilierby and its 

 Short-horns, and after buying Buttercup hired from John Booth the bull 

 Jeweler (10354), son of Necklace, " a short bull with a bad head and a light 

 neck, but with capital sides and quality." Buttercup, served by this bull 

 and weak from an attack of " foot-and-mouth," and her half-sister Bessie, 

 another daughter of Barmpton Rose, in calf to Lax's Duke (9032), were in- 

 cluded in the lot that went to Towneley in 1848. The former dropped But- 

 terfly and the latter the great stock bull Frederick (11489) the pair from 

 whence came those show-yard monarchs Master Butterfly (13311) and Royal 

 Butterfly (16862). 



After having served a long apprenticeship under Mason at Sir Charles 

 Tempest's Culshaw was hired by Col. Towneley in 1849. He had been with 

 Mr. Ambler, the breeder of the celebrated Grand Turk (12969), for the pre- 

 vious eighteen months, and while there had taken Senator to the Royal 

 and defeated Mr. Bates' 2d and 3d Dukes of Oxford. Jeweler went with the 

 Eastwood cows to Towneley, and soon afterward the Booth-bred Lord 

 George (10439) son of Birthday and sire of 2d Duke of Athol in the Airdrie 

 Duchess pedigree followed. 



The opportunity that Culshaw had so long desired was now presented. 

 He had under his control at Towneley a rare good lot of cows selected by 

 Mr. Eastwood and Mr. Straff ord. He was keen to try conclusions with the 

 best breeders and fitters of the realm at a time when show-yard enthusiasm 

 had been fanned into a fierce flame largely through the triumphs of the 

 Booths. With the active sympathy and support of his employers Culshaw 

 charged the entire line of opposition with one of the most admirably 



