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the best local sources, but like all his contempo- 

 raries was working more or less in the dark. Pedi- 

 grees were practically unknown. There was no 

 uniformity of type, no agreement as to any fixed 

 standard of excellence no application as yet of 

 BAKEWELL'S method. But fate was silently shaping 

 a great destiny for the Barmpton and Ketton herds, 

 and through them a great new breed was presently 

 to emerge. 



Among the best of the Barmpton cattle were 

 the sorts subsequently known to fame as the Wild- 

 airs, Red Roses and Princesses tribes from which 

 thousands of the best cattle ever bred in England 

 or America have been directly descended. From 

 Barmpton also came the bulls used in the founda- 

 tion of the epoch-making herd of THOMAS BOOTH, 

 to be referred to presently, and the Princess-Hub- 

 back blood from Barmpton after the lapse of many 

 years became, through Belvidere, the basis of the 

 greatest success achieved by Mr. BATES, which 

 somewhat eccentric but extraordinary individual we 

 are also soon to meet. 



ROBERT COLLING made a partial sale of his herd 

 in 1818 and retired in 1820, having for forty years 

 contributed largely to the development and evolu- 

 tion of the Shorthorn type. At the first sale 61 



