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would steer his undesirable youngsters and make 

 them up into money-making bullocks. The BOOTHS 

 and others might sacrifice their best cows and heifers 

 upon the altar of Royal championships. He would 

 fatten only shy breeders or barren females. And so 

 he bided his time, seeking, as he himself did not 

 hesitate to claim, the ultimate good of a dual-purpose 

 type that should prove a mine of wealth to the farm- 

 ers of succeeding generations, rather than permit 

 himself to be lured into the pursuit of the guineas 

 to be quickly gathered by following the fashion of 

 his time in cattle-breeding circles. He applied the 

 BAKEWELL methods to the Hubback-Lady Maynard 

 blood, and through his Duchesses gave a character 

 to the English and American herds of a later period, 

 the value of which millions of pounds sterling could 

 never adequately measure. 



Somewhere about 1830 BATES received a "check" 

 in his progress with the Duchesses. Attractive and 

 uniform as were the fifty cattle he drove from their 

 Northumberland home into the upland pastures of 

 Kirklevington, he had run up against that great 

 scourge of incestuous matings long-continued a 

 serious loss of fecundity. He was in the position 

 of a gardener who had produced rare and in every 

 way desirable flowers having little tendency to 



