216 CATTLE 



The Halnaby, or Strawberry, tribe began with a cow named 

 Halnaby, by Lame Bull (359), bought by Mr. Booth about 1797 

 on Darlington market. Bred to Albion (14), a son of Comet (155), 

 she produced Young Albion (15), a most valuable Booth sire 

 and the first of the Booth bulls let out for hire. Rockingham 

 (2551) and Priam (2452), well-known sires, are of this tribe. 

 Priam was sire of Necklace and Bracelet, the most famous 

 Shorthorn twins of history, of which more is said below. 





FIG. 84. Lady Fragrant, calved in 1863. In the herd of Thomas C. Booth, she 



was for years the leading prize-winning Shorthorn female in England. From 



an engraving by E. Hacker, published in London in 1868 



The Bracelet tribe is descended from the cow Countess, by 

 Albion (14). In fact this is also known as the Countess tribe. 

 Four generations from Countess came the cow Vestal, owned by 

 John Booth, by the epoch-making Booth sire, Pilot (496). A 

 daughter of Vestal named Toy, sired by Argus (759), bred to 

 Priam (2452), became the dam of the twin heifers Bracelet and 

 Necklace to which reference is above made. These twins proved 

 to be not only the greatest show Shorthorns between 1842 and 

 1846, but each became a great dam. Bracelet was the dam of 

 several animals of unusual merit. Her son Buckingham (3239), 

 by Musselman (4525), proved to be one of the famous bulls of 

 his time, siring many noteworthy females. 



