years old. She was Mr. Berry's ideal 

 Shorthorn. The ofter made by the par- 

 son was never accepted. 



Carr, writing in 1867 of the Booth 

 Shorthorns, says that Isabella and her 

 descendants brought the massive yet ex- 

 quisitely molded forequarters into the 

 herd. Isabella's grandam was very 

 strong in the development of this part. 

 She was also responsible for the straight 

 underline, a feature of this tribe. This 

 writer further states that the Isabellas 

 all had great capacity for rapidly ac- 

 quiring ripe condition on pasture. The 

 story is that at one of the Yorkshire 

 agricultural meetings a grass-fed heifer, 

 a daughter of Isabella, sired by Ambo, 

 was rejected by the judges as too fat. 

 As she did not breed she was slaugh- 

 tered at York for Christmas beef. Her 

 two successful rivals also were non- 

 breeders, and, as it happened, they werr- 

 slaughtered at the same time and place, 

 and then it was clearly shown that the 

 Isabella heifer had the best carcass and 

 was awarded the dressed beef prize. 



According to the Coates herd book, Isa- 

 bella was calved May 17, 1820, and be- 

 tween 1823 and 1834 was the dam of nine 

 calves, six of which were females. Her 

 first calf was a roan heifer, that was also 

 named Isabella. In 1825 she had a roan 

 bull calf, that was named Isaac, by 

 Young Albion (15), that proved later to 

 be a valuable sire, although, unfortu- 

 nately, he was killed before his real 

 worth became known. In 1828 or 1829 

 she had another roan heifer calf, that 

 was named Young Isabella, by Memnon 

 (2295). and in 1833 a red and white heifer 

 by Burley (1766), named Isabel, was 

 dropped. These are only a portion of 

 the calves she was dam of up to and in- 

 cluding 1834. That 3^ear Richard Booth's 

 herd was sold at a dispersion sale. But 

 he did not sell everything under the 

 hammer. He retained one cow only of 

 the entire herd, and that was Isabella. 

 Removing the year of the sale tempo- 

 rarily to Sharrow, and after a year's resi- 

 dence there to Warlaby, Richard Booth 

 took with him this great dam, which at 

 this period was termed by one writer "a 

 large, patchy cow." 



The first year at Warlaby Isabella pro- 

 duced a roan bull calf, by Young Match- 

 em (4422), after which, in her eighteenth 

 year, by the same bull, she dropped a 

 heifer that was named Isabella Matchem. 

 This heifer proved, like her dam, to be 

 very prolific, and was the mother of a 



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