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his eagerness from JOHN STEPHENSON. The bull 

 proved a big one, possessing a lot of "stretch," 

 with heavy shoulders and a commanding presence. 

 The much-desired masculinity was there, and what 

 v/as of equal importance, unlike so many of the 

 other bulls of his time, he was "soft as a mole to 

 the touch." Asked to name a price, the owner was 

 modest enough to place it at 50. The very next 

 day Belvidere was on his way to Kirklevington. He 

 was the product of the mating of a bull called 

 Waterloo to his own sister! To such extremes did 

 these old worthies go in their adoption of Dishley 

 methods. The bull was then six years old, and as 

 he had inherited the "hot-blood temper" of his sire, 

 it is related that it took three men to get him safely 

 away down Sandy Lane on his way to his great 

 work of fructifying the seed that was to fill not only 

 all England, but America as well, with square-quar- 

 tered, straight-lined, stately cattle. Mr. BATES, with 

 characteristic assurance, announced in advance that 

 he would now "produce Shorthorns such as the world 

 has never seen," and he did. 



For six years Belvidere was kept steadily in ser- 

 vice, being succeeded by one of his own sons, dropped 

 by Duchess 29th, she by 2d Hubback out of a 2d 

 Hubback dam! Among the best heifers left by Bel- 



