176 CATTLE-BREEDING. 



surance, which produced to Leonard, son of the 

 outcross Lord Lieutenant, Leonidas, "a very 

 fine bull, sire of the notable Monk, one of the 

 best of the Warlaby bulls/' and Isabella Buck- 

 ingham. To the outcross Exquisite she also 

 produced Isabella Exquisite. Isabella Bucking- 

 ham, with her three outcrosses, is said to have 

 been "a superb cow." She produced to the 

 strong outcross Exquisite, Sample (four out- 

 crosses), which, though a plain cow herself, 

 like all of Exquisite's get, was, like most of 

 them, a fine breeder, and produced to Hopewell 

 Isabella Hopewell, a beautiful animal, and to 

 Crown Prince Lady Grace, another of Mr. 

 Booth's best cows. Hopewell was himself by 

 the outbred bull Buckingham, dam by the out- 

 bred bull Leonard, grandam by the outbred 

 bull Young Matchem; while Crown Prince was 

 by Fitz Leonard, the breeding of which has 

 already been noticed, and his dam was the cow 

 Charity by the outbred bull Buckingham, gran- 

 dam by the outbred bull Young Matchem. 



In fine we see that the Booths, like Mr. Bates, 

 confined their breeding as far as possible to 

 their own herd in the main, but they took care 

 to infuse an abundance of strong, fresh, unre- 

 lated blood into the home-bred sires used by 

 them by means of radical outcrosses. That 

 this was the means which enabled them to 

 breed the fine cattle which they so constantly 



