as CATTLE. 



his ricinity abounded, and which scarcely any length of time or 

 quantity of food would thoroughly fatten, determined upon raising a 

 more sightly and a more profitable breed ; yet, rather unfortunately, 

 his zeal impelled him to the opposite extreme. Having carefully, 

 and at much cost, raised a variety of cattle, the chief merit of which 

 is to make fat, he has apparently laid his disciples and successors 

 under the necessity of substituting another that will make lean. 



Mr. Bakewell had many prejudices opposed to him, and many 

 difficulties to surmount, and it is not therefore to be wondered at if 

 he was more than once involved in considerable embarrassment ; but 

 he hved to see the perfect success of his undertaking. 



He died when verging on his seventieth year. His countenance 

 bespoke activity and a high degree of benevolence. His manners 

 were frank and pleasing, and well calculated to maintain the exten- 

 sive popularity he had acquired. His hospitality to strangers was 

 bounded only by his means. 



Many anecdotes are related of his humanity towards the various 

 tribes of animals under his management. He would not suffer the 

 slightest act of cruelty to be perpetrated by any of his servants, and 

 he sternly deprecated the barbarities practised by butchers and dro- 

 vers ; showing, by examples on his own farm, the most pleasing in- 

 stances of docility in every animal. 



Mr. Bakewell's celebrated bull Twopenny was the produce of the 

 Westmoreland bull, out of old Comely, one of the two heifers pur- 

 chased from Mr. Webster ; therefore he was, by the side of his dam, 

 a direct descendant of the Canley blood. 



Mr. Bakewell had afterwards a more valuable bull than this, 

 named D. He retained him principally for his own use, except that 

 he was let for part of a season to Mr. Fowler, and that a few cows 

 were brought to him .it five guineas a cow. He was got by a son 

 of Twopenny, out of a daughter and sister of the same bull, she be- 

 ing the produce of his own dam. 



Starting a few years afterwards, and rivaling Mr Bakewell in the 

 value of his cattle, was Mr. Fowler of Rollwright, in Oxfordshire. 

 His cows were of the Canley breed ; most of them having been pur- 

 chased from Mr. Bakewell ; and his bull Shakspeare, the best stock- 

 getter that the long-horn breed ever possessed, was got by D, out of 

 a daughter of Twopenny, and therefore of pure Canley blood. 



Mr. Marshall gives the following description of this bull, and very 

 interesting and instructive it is. It is a beautiful explication of 

 some of the grand principles of breeding. " This bull is a striking 

 specimen of what naturalists term accidental varieties. Though bred 

 in the manner that has been mentioned, he scarcely inherits a single 

 point of the long-horned breed, his horns excepted. In 1784, then 

 six years old, and somewhat below his usual condition, though hy 

 BO means low in flesh, he was of this description. 



