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we had visited. In fancy we restored to the market places 

 of Yarm and Darlington that sturdy company of earnest 

 men that made the grand old breed. There were two 

 brothers, Charles and Robert, who had brought in from 

 the pastures of Ketton and Barmpton specimens of the 

 newly improved Teeswater type. A great throng of land- 

 lords and tenant farmers from far and near gathered about 

 a monstrous Colling bullock called The Durham Ox. In 

 the press we recognize an honest Yorkshire squire who 

 is addressed as Booth of Killerby. Yonder is a certain 

 Christopher Mason of Chilton and one Maynard of Ery- 

 holme. We notice too a young man with a keen eye listen- 

 ing to the talk of his elders and studying closely the cattle 

 to be seen in the village street. It is "Tommy" Bates, 

 then of Northumberland. The day is spent in buying and 

 selling, in comparing notes as to how the new breed is 

 coming on, and all at last adjourn to the tap room of the 

 Black Bull inn to pledge a health in foaming mugs of brown 

 October ale to the success of the new-born breed. Such 

 is the opening chapter of modern Short-horn history. 



The scene changes. A patient plodding figure mounted 

 on an old white nag rides the winding roadways of York- 

 shire. Now and then he stops at farm houses along his 

 route. Day after day he may be seen. Night after night 

 he writes and writes and wrestles .with notes and data 

 bearing upon the genealogy of the herds that are contrib- 

 uting to the formation of the now well-recognized and 

 rapidly-increasing breed known as the "Improved Short- 

 horn." He is helped by some; hindered by others. It is 

 Geo. Coates of Great Smeaton, father of Short-horn pedi- 

 gree registration. Discouraged at first he at last enlists 

 the sympathies of Jonas Whitaker of Otley and the Eng- 

 lish Short-horn Herd Book is set upon its feet 



Time passes. Killerby and Kirklevington are the Short- 

 horn capitals. The genius of two of the greatest cattle 

 breeders the world has ever known has worked wonders 

 since that October day in 1810 when under the lime trees 

 at Ketton, Ceiling's Comet was sold amidst a scene of 

 wild enthusiasm for 1,000 guineas. The Yorkshire and 



