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written by the late Mr. Thomas Bates, he remarks that " he was of 

 the Barningham breed, which came from Studley, where they were 

 bred for many generations." So that the ancient domain of Studley, 

 as with Alnwick Castle, "home of the Percy's high-born race " of men, 

 was equally a home of the high-born race of Short-horn cattle. 



" Isabella and her descendants brought the massive yet exquisitely 

 moulded fore quarters into the herd, and also that straight under-line 

 of the belly, for which the Warlaby animals are remarkable. That 

 such a cow should have had but three crosses of blood is striking 

 evidence of the impressive efficacy of these early bulls, and confirms 

 Mr. R. Booth's opinion that four crosses of really first-rate bulls of 

 sterling blood upon a good market cow, of the ordinary Short-horn breed, 

 should suffice for the production of an animal with all the character- 

 istics of the high-caste Short-horn."* 



"'White Cow,' by Agamemnon, produced, besides the famous Isa- 

 bella, 'Own Sister to Isabella,' and Lady Sarah, and was then sold to 

 Mr. Paley, of Gledhow. Her dam, the Darlington cow, had previ- 

 ously been disposed of to the master of a boarding-school at Ripon, 

 one of whose pupils, Mr. Bruere, of Braithwaite Hall a highly 

 esteemed friend of the late Mr. Booth's well remembers the brim- 

 ming pails of milk she gave. ' Own Sister to Isabella ' was the dam 

 of Blossom, by Memnon (2295) (a son of Julius Csesar and Straw- 

 berry, by Pilot), and Blossom was the dam of Medora, by Ambo 

 (1636), one of the neatest cows Mr. Booth ever bred. Medora was 

 sold to Mr. Fawkes, in whose hands she was the progenitress of his 

 Gulnare, Haidee, Zuleika, and others. Mr. Fawkes' Lord Marquis, 

 the first prize three-year-old bull at the Royal Show at Lewes, in 

 1852, and the Yorkshire Show at Sheffield, in the same year, was also 

 a descendant of Medora's. 



"'A gentleman,' says the writer of 'Short-horn Intelligence,' 'who 

 has been intimately conversant with the herds of Great Britain for at 

 least a quarter of a century, declares that one of the most interesting 

 sights he ever saw at an agricultural exhibition was on the show 

 ground at Otley, some years ago, when, after the judging, the famous 

 Booth cow Medora, by Ambo, was led round the ring, followed by her 

 six daughters, all of them, as well as the mother, decorated with prize 

 lavors. The daughters were Gulnare, Haidee, and Zuleika (by Nor- 

 folk) (2377); Victoria, and Fair Maid of Athens (by Sir Thomas 



* The American breeder must understand that " the ordinary Short-horn breed" named above, 

 were true Short-horns, but without Herd Hook pedigrees, and not the common cattle of the coun- 

 try, like ours. L. F. A. 



