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videre was Duchess 34th, that accidentally broke a 

 leg as a yearling. The accident lamed her for life, 

 but did not injure her for breeding purposes. Bred 

 back to her own sire mark this terrific inbreeding 



she gave birth to Mr. BATES' bull of all bulls, the 



far-famed champion Duke of Northumberland, of 

 which more anon. 



By this time the superior grace, beauty and 

 quality of the BATES cattle became a freely-admitted 

 proposition, and it was at this interesting juncture in 

 the breed's development that FELIX RENICK appeared 

 upon the scene that is FELIX out there in the 

 other room in the old high hat of the vintage of 

 1 840. He and his colleagues, representing the Ohio 

 Importing Company, went to England in quest of 

 Shorthorns. They visited the leading breeding estab- 

 lishments, including that of Mr. BATES, who told 

 them frankly that Belvidere's sire, old Waterloo, 

 then in his sixteenth year, and Norfolk, a 2d Hub- 

 back bull owned by Mr. FAWKES of Farnley Hall, were 

 the only two bulls in all Britain, aside from his 

 own Belvidere, that were "in the least likely to get 

 good stock"; a remark which illustrates the truth 

 that Mr. BATES was never in the least backward 

 about coming forward whenever the merits of his 

 own "breed" were being weighed in comparison with 



