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The Moss Rose tribe of Booth was descended from a cow 

 named Dairymaid, by Pilot (496), said to have come " from a 

 good stock in the village of Scorton, not far from Killerby." 

 Though this tribe was developed at Warlaby, it should not be 

 confused with one of the same name founded at Killerby and of 

 less importance. From Dairymaid was descended Moss Rose, 

 by Priam (2452), and from this line comes Vivandiere, by Buck- 

 ingham (3239), one of the very best breeding Shorthorn cows 

 of Booth ancestry. Vivandiere had ten calves, seven of which 

 were prize winners one, Campfollower, being regarded as one 

 of the greatest of Warlaby-bred matrons. 



The Fairholm, or Blossom, tribe had its origin in a purchase 

 by Thomas Booth of five heifers from a Mr. Broader of Fairholm. 

 From these heifers came three branches, of which the Blossom 

 is most conspicuous. From it are descended the well-known 

 Warlaby-bred animals Plum Blossom, Nectarine Blossom, Venus 

 Victrix, Baron Warlaby (7813), and Windsor (14013). 



Less prominent early English Shorthorn breeders besides the 

 above were Christopher Mason of Chilton ; Jonas Whittaker of 

 Otley, near Leeds ; William Wetherell of Aldborough, near 

 Darlington ; Sir Charles Knighley of Fawsley Park, Daventry ; 

 Colonel Towneley of Towneley ; and William Torr of Riby 

 and Aylesby. 



The development of the Shorthorn in Scotland first took root 

 in the border country, among the north foothills of the Cheviots. 

 Here Robertson of Ladykirk, near the town of Coldstream on 

 the banks of the Tweed, was the first Scotchman to engage in 

 breeding Shorthorns. This was early in the nineteenth century. 

 Robertson bred some excellent cattle, but was very independent 

 and would not register them in the Coates herdbook. John 

 Rennie of Phantassie about 1818 or 1819 bought of Robertson 

 and of English breeders and established a herd still farther 

 north, easterly from Edinburgh, near the town of Haddington. 

 Rennie became a noted Shorthorn breeder and produced a type 

 of profitable cattle which, like Robertson, he refused to register 

 in the English book. The first person to introduce the Short- 

 horn into north Scotland was Captain Barclay, who lived on the 

 estate of Ury near the seaport of Stonehaven, a few miles south 



