170 CATTLE-BREEDING. 



on some of the outcrosses introduced, and on 

 them but briefly. 



The first twenty years of Mr. Booth's breed- 

 ing, down to the acquisition of Albion (14) at 

 Mr. Charles Colling's sale in 1810, Mr. Booth 

 had been pursuing the Bakewell method with 

 frequent resort to very close in-and-in crosses, 

 but with equally frequent resort to outcrosses, 

 and he mixed all sorts of blood with the blood 

 of Ben and Twin Brother to Ben, on which the 

 herd in a certain sense was founded. A more 

 miscellaneous collection of crosses than Mr. 

 Booth's herd contained at the end of this time 

 it would be hard to conceive of. It was a 

 course of inbreeding with strong outcrosses at 

 frequent intervals. Albion was a six-months 

 calf at the time of his purchase, and was 

 bought at sixty guineas ($310), and was of the 

 " alloy 7 ' blood; that is, had the strongest out- 

 cross in the Colling herd the strongest of all 

 possible outcrosses, being as it was a cross out- 

 side of the breed itself. When put to Halnaby, 

 by Mr. Booth's Lame Bull, this strongest of out- 

 crosses Albion got Young Albion, which proved 

 one of the most splendid of breeders. Then in 

 1818 Mr. Booth bought at Mr. Robert Colling s 

 sale a yearling bull, Pilot (496), at 270 guineas 

 ($1,400), by Major (398) or Wellington (680), in 

 neither case an extremely in-and-in bred bull 

 for those days, the relationship being aunt or 



