106 HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



been on this ground as they often have been adverse to the Booth 

 cattle, many an experienced butcher has proclaimed a very different 

 opinion ; and could the appeal ad crumenam have been adopted by 

 an immediate sale of the rival animals to the shambles, how useless 

 would it have been in most instances to contest the supremacy of 

 the Booths ! 



"Another cow which Mr. Booth took with him to Studley was 

 Madame, by Marshal Beresford, also of the Fairholme Blossom tribe. 

 From her came Fancy and Fair Maid, both by Agamemnon. The 

 former was the dam of Fatima, a very neat, middle-sized cow, which, 

 put to Mr. Maynard's Sir Alexander (591), produced the famous bull 

 Young Sir Alexander (5139). This bull was the sire of Strawberry, 

 whose daughter, White Strawberry, by Rockingham (559), held, per- 

 haps, equal rank in Mr. Booth's estimation with Anna, Isabella, and 

 her own contemporary rivals, Necklace and Bracelet. Fair Maid, 

 the other daughter of Madame, by Marshal Beresford, was the dam 

 of Miss Foote, whose descendants were very numerous, and were all 

 disposed of at, or previously to, the Studley sale. They united in a 

 remarkable degree the two properties of good milking and rapid 

 fattening. Fair Maid herself was sold to Mr. Ellison, of Sizergh, 

 where she bred many calves, and proved herself an excellent dairy 

 cow. Miss Foote was sold to Captain Shawe, and Fair Helen, her 

 daughter, who was the dam of the noted bull Cossack (1880), to Sir 

 Charles Tempest, with whom she bred four heifers. I remember, in 

 1853, a stray waif of this famous tribe in the hands of an inn-keeper, 

 at Clapham, in Yorkshire. It was, in fact, the broad, level back, and 

 symmetrical proportions of this cow, that induced me to purchase my 

 first Short-horn, her bull calf. The cow was a granddaughter of 

 Miss Foote, being a daughter of Lady Helen, then the property of 

 Mr. Foster, of Clapham. She was sacrificed whilst still in her prime, 

 her owner being tempted by the offer of a high price for her from a 

 butcher. 



" Some mention of the bulls bred and used by Mr. Booth during 

 his residence at Studley seems here to be required. 



" One of the first bulls of superior mark bred by Mr. Richard 

 Booth, after his removal to Studley, was Julius Caesar (1143), a bull 

 of very symmetrical proportions, which he had the merit of impress- 

 ing in a surprising degree upon his offspring. No matter how 

 dissimilar and opposite in form and breed the cows to which he was 

 put might be, the produce all bore the unmistakable stamp of their 

 sire. The offspring, by him, of the shabbiest lane-side cow, had, it 



