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Short-horns. He obtained one notable family 

 from a Mr. Broader of Fairholme, a dairy 

 farmer whose stock are said to have been 

 "unusually fine cattle for that period good 

 dairy cows, and great grazers when dry, * * * 

 of very robust constitution." Three cows pur- 

 chased from this herd, "Strawberry Fairholme, 

 Hazel Fairholme, and Eight-and-Twenty-Shil- 

 ling Fairholme, have the honor of being the 

 ancestresses of several illustrious families of 

 Short-horns." This is a specimen of the kind 

 of foundations the Booths sought, and it in no 

 small degree explains their success. These 

 sturdy, unimpaired stocks gave a fund of vigor 

 calculated to resist much inbreeding. We find 

 another example in the foundation cow of the 

 great family generally known as the Isabella 

 tribe, of which we are told* that "In the first 

 year of his residence at Studley [1814] Mr. R. 

 Booth bought in Darlington market the first 

 of what was afterward known as the Isa- 

 bella tribe. She was a roan cow by Mr. Bur- 

 rell's Bull of Burden, and, for a market cow, 

 had a remarkably ample development of the 

 fore quarters. She was put to Agamemnon. 

 The offspring was White Cow, which, crossed 

 by Pilot, produced the matchless Isabella, so 

 long remembered in show-field annals, and to 

 this day quoted as a perfect specimen of her 



Carr's "History of Booth Short-horns," p. 14. 



