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handling quality, undoubtedly derived from Hubback, 

 was a rich and persistent milker, and when fed off 

 at 17 years of age made a fine carcass of beef. 

 Her son Ketton developed into a great bull and 

 became the foundation sire of the herd. At COL- 

 LING'S dispersion in 1810 a granddaughter of this 

 first Duchess was bought at 183 guineas. As usual 

 at that date Mr. BATES had not much company in 

 his judgment. She was not the type then popular. 

 The crowd cried for scale, and, then as now, was 

 hot upon the trail of fat. BATES talked "quality" 

 and "touch" as indicating aptitude to fatten when 

 desired, but few there were to listen to his argu- 

 ment. He relied upon the blood of Hubback when 

 not violently outcrossed, secured it in its purest 

 and most concentrated form in these Duchess cows, 

 and went his way. 



Time passed. Ketton's sons, Ketton 2d and Ketton 

 3d, were used until 1820, and then the Duchess 

 blood was once more doubled in through The Earl, 

 called by Mr. BATES "the hope of the Shorthorns," 

 a bull that was used with highly gratifying results, 

 siring among other remarkable animals a bull which 

 Mr. BATES so highly regarded that he named him 

 2d Hubback. In him all that was best in the once 

 nameless bull of a preceding sketch reappeared, and 



