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and white) got two red heifers. Lord Barrington (red and white) 

 got one Duchess heifer, red ; 2d Duke of Oxford (roan) got two 

 roans, one red roan, one red and white, and one red heifer, the last 

 one finishing up all the Duchesses of Mr. Bates' breeding. 



Matchem Cow, the original dam of the Oxford tribe, it will be 

 recollected was white, and from her came the lighter colors which fol- 

 lowed in her progeny, all of her seven calves, after coming into Mr. 

 Bates' possession, being roans, and red roans. Only one of the heifers 

 of this tribe was white. She was Oxford 3d, by Duke of Northum- 

 berland (red roan), out of Oxford Premium Cow, roan ; another of 

 them was red and white, by the same bull, and out of the same cow ; 

 another was red and white, and all the others roan. 



Of the Waterloo tribe, four were roans, four red, three red and 

 white, and one yellow-red and white. 



Of the Red Roses, nine were red and white, and two roan, and of 

 their successors, the Cambridge Roses, three were roans, one white, 

 one red and white, and one "red. 



Of the Wild Eyes, seventeen were roan, two red, six red and white, 

 one yellow-red and white, and two white. 



Of the Foggathorpes, the original dam was roan, and of the pro- 

 duce one was white, the next one red and white, and the remaining 

 three roan. 



It will thus be seen that of all Mr. Bates' chosen tribes the red and 

 white largely prevailed in his Duchess and Red Roses ; the roans in 

 the others, and the whites were seldom found in either. We draw no 

 inferences either of partiality or prejudice which Mr. Bates had in 

 the way of colors, only stating the fact as matter of history. To the 

 present day red, and red and white, prevail in the Duchess, and red 

 and white, and roans prevail in the Oxfords, with now and then a 

 rare exception of white in either tribe, while the other tribes have 

 been so widely scattered and crossed by other and divers bulls, that 

 we can scarcely keep track of their colors as having any fixed 

 peculiarity" 



It maylbe asked, Was Mr. Bates successful in winning prizes on his 

 stock at The various exhibitions of Short-horns held in England 

 during the time of his breeding ? 



As we find among his numerous communications on that subject, 

 he was, as a rule with himself, opposed to prize exhibitions of his 

 stock at the various cattle shows, for the reason, as he remarked, 

 that there were few men among the judges usually appointed on 

 these occasions, fit for the duty. He once remarked that "there 



