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with Teeswaters and "Twin Brother to Ben" (660) ; 

 and lengthening the hind-quarters, filling up the fore- 

 flank, and breeding with a view to that fine deep flesh 

 and constitution which bears any amount of forcing, 

 have been their especial aim. It was the late Mr. 

 Richard Booth's opinion that no bull had done his herd 

 so much good as " Albion" (14), of "the alloy blood," 

 and Mr. Whitaker and Mr. Wetherell were quite with 

 him on the point. It may be said that shorthorns 

 generally have grown smaller in frame, and that there 

 is perhaps not that rich coat and uniformity of 

 character which marked some of the earlier herds ; 

 but still those who can make the comparison from 

 memory are fain to allow that, in their flesh-points 

 and general weights, the breed knows no decay. What 

 the Brothers Colling were in earlier days, the Brothers 

 Booth have been in later. If the elder could boast of 

 " Necklace" with the wondrous crops, and " Bracelet," 

 in whom none could find a fault, save a trifling defi- 

 ciency in the fore-rib, it was left to the younger to 

 keep up the type with the beautiful " Charity," whose 

 twist and hind-legs might have been modelled from, 

 and to follow it up with " Plum Blossom," " Nectarine 

 Blossom," " Queen of the Ocean," and " Queen of the 

 May." Richard Booth and Crofton might be said to 

 have initiated the modern plan of keeping beasts far 

 more in the house, and preparing them specially with 

 a view to shows. No blood has been more widely 

 spread than that of " Warlaby" and " Killerby" 

 throughout the United Kingdom, or commanded a 

 finer bull-hiring trade ; and it was from " Buttercup," 

 a daughter of " Barmpton Rose," and crossed with 

 Booth's " Jeweller" (10,354) that " Butterfly" sprang, 

 the chief foundress, with "Frederick," (11,489) of the 

 Towneley herd, whose victories in the store and fat 

 shows combined are wholly without parallel. 



A very painful chord was struck at the Yorkshire 

 Agricultural Meeting of '49, when hundreds of friends 



