230 CATTLE-BREEDING. 



of one breeder reckoned along the female line, 

 in the fact that though Mr. Bates owned and 

 bred many animals of many families yet those 

 who breed Bates cattle as a fancy hold that the 

 seven families classed by the female side, which 

 he retained to the close of his breeding career, 

 represent in a peculiar way his work" and some 

 go so far as to seek to exclude all others from 

 their herds, or even from the category of "true 

 Bates" cattle. In a less extreme way fami- 

 lies are very widely reckoned according to the 

 breeders and the foundation cows. Thus the 

 family known as the "Cold Creams" in this 

 country, from the imported cow Cold Cream 

 8th, is known in England most commonly as 

 the Furbelow family of Sir Charles Knightley ; 

 though not infrequently even there spoken of 

 as the Cold Cream family, from the cow of that 

 name sold by Sir Charles Knightley to the 

 Queen, and made by her the basis of a cele- 

 brated sub-family. So the Gwynne branch of 

 the Princess tribe is nearly or quite as cele- 

 brated as the general family or any of the lines 

 which have perpetuated the Princess name. 

 In these cases the Furbelows might be said to 

 have made their reputation more as being of 

 the breeding of Sir Charles Knightley, while 

 the sub-family as great prize-winners in the 

 hands of the Queen made an independent posi- 

 tion, which was exalted indeed by the superi- 



