1 48 Saddle and Sirloin. 



The Americans, and more especially Colonel Powell 

 and the Ohio Company, had heard of her and her 

 32 quarts a day in their repeated visits to Burley. 

 They generally left Yorkshire with the belief that 

 " a man might ride four hacks to death in the North, 

 and not find twenty such cows as Mr. Whitaker's ;" 

 and they were among his best customers for a series 

 of years. 



Sir Charles Knightley gradually became quite a 

 Whitaker to the Midlands, when he gave up hounds 

 about 1 8 18, and laid himself in with the " Rosy" and 

 " Ruby" tribes, and his friend Arbuthnot's bulls. He 

 always said that it was " quite an acquired taste," but 

 he took to it with singular heartiness. He strove to 

 put shoulders on his cattle as perfect as those of his 

 own hunters, " Benvolio" and " Sir Marinel." Beau- 

 tiful fore-quarters, gay carriage, general elegance, and 

 a strong family likeness distinguished his tribes, and 

 their fine milking powers placed them (like " Cold 

 Cream" and " Alix," of the Royal Home Farm) at the 

 head of many a dairy. " A Fawsley fill-pail" soon 

 passed into a herd proverb ; and a dip into the blood 

 of the " Earl of Dublin" (10,178) and the " Friars" — 

 White or Grey— was pretty sure to make one. 



The " Old Cherry," by " Pirate" (2430) tribe, which 

 came originally from William Colling of Stapleton, 

 was in high force when " Gainford steers" were told at 

 a glance, and valued at a good pound more, and when 

 Mr. Crofton had taken such rare prize heifers by him 

 and " The Provost" (4846) to the Highland Society 

 and other shows. Colonel Cradock liked the sort for 

 their size and milk, and they " nicked" well both with 

 the Booth and the Bates blood. Crossed with 

 "Grand Duke" (10,284), they founded the "Cherry 

 Dukes" and " Duchesses ;" and it was to "Mussulman" 

 (4525) that John Booth sent his celebrated " Bracelet," 

 and had " Buckingham" (3239) for his reward. 



The Booth family began at Studley about 1790, 



