134 HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



COLORS OF THE BATES HERDS. 



It may be of some interest to know the prevailing colors attached 

 to the various tribes of Mr. Bates' breeding ; not that we deem any 

 particular color or shades, or admixtures of color, from deep red to 

 pure white, objectionable all being equally legitimate in Short-horn 

 blood but there was more uniformity in the colors of Mr. Bates' 

 herd probably than in any other large one of his time. 



To trace back the colors of the ancestry of Duchess ist, by Comet : 

 The original one of the tribe the Stanwick Cow was a yellowish 

 red roan ; her sire, J. Brown's red bull, of course, was red in color. 

 What was the color of her daughter, by Hubback (he was yellow-red 

 and white), we are not informed ; but the granddaughter, Duchess, 

 by Daisy bull (his color not given), was red roan, with some patches 

 of white intermixed. Of the other daughter, by Favorite (he was 

 roan), we have no information ; but her daughter, Bates' Duchess 

 ist, by Comet (he was light roan), was red and white, the red largely 

 predominating. The bulls, Ketton ist, 26. and 3d, which Mr. Bates 

 used for the next seven years in the Duchess breeding, were mostly 

 red, with some white. Marske (418), the next bull, was roan. The 

 next bull, Cleveland, was red and white. Young Marske, red and 

 white. The Earl, yellow-red, some white. The 26. and 3d Earls, 

 both red and white; 2d Hubback, yellow-red and white. These 

 were the bulls used down to the year 1832, when Belvedere was 

 brought into the herd. All the Duchesses descended from these 

 bulls down to the 32d, inclusive, were red and white (the red largely 

 predominating over the white), excepting the i2th, red, and i9th, 

 which latter was yellow-red. 



Belvedere was yellow-roan in color. Six of his Duchess heifers 

 were roan ; three red and white, and one red ; the only Duchess 

 heifer calf got by Gambier (red) was red also ; the only one got by 

 Norfolk (roan) was also roan. Short Tail (red and white) got five 

 red and white, and one red, heifers. Duke of Northumberland (red 

 roan) got the first and only pure white heifer ever bred by Mr. Bates 

 of the Duchess family, and another roan heifer. Cleveland Lad 

 (red roan) got one Duchess heifer, roan. Holkar (deep red with 

 little white) got one Duchess heifer, red and white ; 2d Cleveland 

 Lad (roan) got one red, one red and white, and one roan Duchess 

 heifer; 2d Duke of Northumberland (red and white) got but one 

 Duchess heifer, red and white ; 4th Duke of Northumberland (red 



