THE FIRST FARMER OF ENGLAND 111 



admired the Waterloos, and decided to go on with a 

 branch of that family which he had introduced into 

 his own herd five years previously by the purchase 

 of a cow called Water Witch, sired by the 4th Duke 

 of Northumberland out of Mr. BATES' Waterloo 3d 

 by Norfolk. By the use of BOOTH bulls upon this 

 sort he produced one of the most prolific and one 

 of the best groups in the Aylesby Manor herd. His 

 pet family, nevertheless, was the Flower tribe, de- 

 scended in the maternal line from Nonpareil, for 

 which EARL SPENCER had paid 370 guineas, the 

 highest figure reached at ROBERT GOLLING'S sale of 

 1818. 



It will be remembered that THOMAS BOOTH, un- 

 like BATES, had builded up his original herd by using 

 COLLING bulls upon females of his own selection. 

 TORR pursued a similar policy; that is, he resorted 

 to the BOOTH blood only for his sires, buying his 

 foundation breeding cows wherever he found types 

 to his liking. True, his Ribys and Brights went 

 back to BOOTH'S Anna; but they had crosses of 

 extraneous blood put in after WHITAKER'S purchase 

 of a cow of that derivation at the Studley sale of 

 1834. The reuniting of the BOOTH blood in this 

 case proved a pronounced success, so much so that 

 when the herd was finally dispersed Mr. T. G. BOOTH 



