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Royal shows are organized. Bracelet, Necklace, Duchess 

 34th, the Oxford Premium Cow and the Duke of Northum- 

 berland come forward as a revelation. The friendly con- 

 tests of John Booth and Mr. Bates at these early shows stir 

 agricultural England to its very depths. Such cattle had 

 never before been shown to the public. Possibly they 

 have never since been surpassed. 



From Killerby we follow Richard Booth to Studley and 

 Warlaby and try to conjure up the massive figures of 

 Isabella and of Anna, or dream of those paragons of bovine 

 beauty the Magnificent Blossoms, Brides and Queens. Old 

 "Cuddy" and Crown Prince and Lady Fragrant are but 

 a memory, and yet how their names still shine on high in 

 the Short-horn firmament! How the blood bred on at 

 Torr's and at Lady Pigot's, with Barnes of Westland, with 

 Raymond Bruere, John Outhwaite and Hugh Aylmer of 

 West Dereham Abbey! How its vivifying influence was 

 felt in the Grand Duchesses, the Duchesses of Airdrie and 

 the Sittyton tribes! How it electrified America in the 

 forms of Rosedale and Baron Booth of Lancaster! Sub- 

 stance, flesh, beef. 



A broad stream flows out from the rolling pastures of 

 Kirklevington Tortworth, Thorndale, Holker Hall, Geneva, 

 and New York Mills! Woodburn, Hillhurst, Dunmore, 

 Towneley, Bow Park, Underley, Audley End, and Berkeley 

 Castle; percolating through the entire breed, impressing 

 the seal of refinement and elegance upon all it touches! 

 Quality, level lines, milk, and heads and faces that fairly 

 defy the powers of art! 



The North of Scotland awakens. Robertson and Rennie, 

 Barclay, Hay, Grant Duff, Gen. Simson, Hutcheson, Sir 

 William Stirling Maxwell, Amos and Anthony Cruick- 

 shank carry the gospel of a new agriculture beyond the 

 River Tweed. Campbell, Marr, Douglas, the Bruces, Syme, 

 Mitchell, Longmore, Lovat, Buccleuch, Polwarth, Duthie 

 and the rest make Scotch Short-horns renowned through- 

 out the cattle-breeding world. Sittyton acquires a fame 

 second only to that of Warlaby and Kirklevington; the 

 credit of establishing a rent-paying, quick-feeding type 



