648 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



tish Blue Belle was ultimately sold to Mr. R. 

 G. Corwine of Lebanon, 0., and brought to the 

 United States. Killerby and Warlaby were 

 then drawn upon for females. The sum of 500 

 guineas was offered Richard Booth in vain for 

 Charity, and a 550-guinea bid for Nectarine 

 Blossom was also declined. Mr. Douglas se- 

 cured, nevertheless, Birthright, a granddaugh- 

 ter of Bracelet, Isabella Hopewell and Venus 

 de Medicis. 



Douglas scored a great success with the roan 

 bull Captain Balco (12546) of Ambler's breed- 

 ing. He stood next to Towneley's undefeated 

 Master Butterfly at the Royal Dublin, and after 

 being used for a time in the herd was sold 

 along with Hawthorne Blossom and a lot ag- 

 gregating some twenty head to the Shakers of 

 Ohio. The Booth-bred bull Hymen (13058), of 

 Bolderi's breeding, out of Bridecake, was next 

 bought and fitted as a member of the herd sent 

 for exhibition at Paris in 1856, at which **how 

 he was sold to M. de Trehonnais for 200 guin- 

 eas. Bates blood was acquired by the pur- 

 chase of the cow Playful, by 4th Duke of York. 

 Some of Troutbeck's Gwynnes were also se- 

 cured. A son of Captain Balco, called Sir 

 James the Rose (15290), out of Rose of Summer, 

 succeeded his sire at the head of the herd and 

 proved a capital stock-getter. Rose of Sum- 

 mer and her descendants were of a remarkably 



