THOMAS BATES' BREEDING. 125 



known in Short-horn history."* To Kirkleavington, in the midst of 

 the famed Short-horn localities, which surrounded it, he brought his 

 cattle stock of the several families of which it was at the time com- 

 posed. In possession of Duchess ist, by Comet (155), in the year 1810, 

 he had worked industriously on by the use of the " Ketton " bulls, with 

 her breeding. Down to the year 1819 that cow had produced him 

 four heifer calves, viz. : Duchess 2d and 3d, by Ketton ist (907) ; 

 Duchess 4th and 5th, by Ketton 2d (710); and one bull [Cleveland 

 (146)], by Ketton 3d (349). These Kettons were solely of the Duchess 

 tribe, and as closely interbred as may be imagined, which their pedi- 

 grees will show. Yet it appears that Mr. Bates was not altogether 

 satisfied with the exclusive use of the Duchess blood in his bulls. He 

 once remarked to a gentleman who told us the fact, (and we have seen 

 the same statement under his own name,f) that he at one time offered 

 Robert Colling 100 guineas ($500) to have his ist Duchess, by Comet 

 (155), served by his "White. bull" (151), whose dam and granddam 

 were both by Favorite (252). "White bull" was of the "Princess" 

 tribe, closely related to the Duchess, but strangers on the remote 

 d m's side to the blood of the latter, she running back several gen- 

 erations to "Studley bull" (626). Colling refused the offer, and 

 Bates was disappointed. 



Down to the year 1831 Mr. Bates had bred thirty-two Duchess 

 cows, and in the production of all he had used his bulls of purely 

 Duchess blood with the exceptions of Marske (418),! which was sire 

 to Duchess 7th, 8th and 9th, and Young Markse (419), which was 

 sire to Duchess nth. Still, having no other resource that suited him 

 for a bull outside of his own herd, and holding an abiding faith in 

 the value of the Duchess blood beyond any other than what was 

 contained in "Colling's White bull" (151), and which latter blood, in 

 the crosses that he particularly liked, had hitherto been out of his 

 reach, he bred on with his Duchess bulls after the Kettons Cleve- 

 land (146); The Earl (646); The 2d Earl (1511); The 3d Earl 

 (1514); and 2d Hubback (1423),! down to the year 1831, in which 



* Bell's History, p. 131. 



t Bates' letter to " Mark Lane Express," written in 1842. 



J Marske was bred by Robert Colling, calved in 1806, got by Favorite (252), dam by Favorite 

 (252), by Favorite (252), by Punch (531), by Hubback (319), by Snowdon's bull (612), by 

 Masterman's bull (422), by Harrison's bull (292), by Studley bull (626), a pedigree full of the 

 best blood. 



Young Marske was got by Marske (418), out of Duchess 4th, by Ketton 2d (710), etc. He 

 was of thorough Duchess descent excepting the cross through Marske, his sire. 



D 2d Hubback was but half pure Duchess blood, being got by The Earl (646), out of Red Rcse 

 ist, by Yarborough (705), The American Cow, etc. 



