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To the service of Albion, Halnaby produced Young Albion, 

 the first of the Killerby bulls to be leased to another breeder. So 

 successful was the first venture that it was ultimately adopted as 

 the permanent herd policy. As a result, the Booth bulls of un- 

 known ability were given ample opportunity in the herds of 

 other men, and those that proved worthy could be recalled to 

 Killerby or Warlaby for further use. 



The demands for agricultural products during the Napoleonic 

 Wars brought sufficient prosperity to the Booth family to enable 

 the elder son, Richard, to undertake a herd of his own at Stud- 

 ley farm, some fifteen miles south of Killerby. Here were taken 

 a few of the choicest animals from the paternal herd, which with 

 the well chosen purchases of Richard on Darlington market soon 

 brought about new standards of achievement in the Booth ranks. 

 In 1819, upon the marriage of the second son, John, Thomas 

 Booth turned over old Killerby to filial management, and re- 

 moved to his other estate of Warlaby located in the valley of the 

 Wiske, where he remained until his retirement from Shorthorn 

 activity about 1835. 



Like his cattle, Thomas Booth bred on. While his achieve- 

 ments are classic, his sons, Richard and John, carried, forward 

 his work to even higher levels. So that when, after fifty years of 

 intimate fellowship with the breed he loved, he passed the torch 

 of progress into younger hands, he knew that his lifelong service 

 was not terminating. His final sleep in 1836 found his face 

 turned to the future, expectantly forecasting the triumphs of his 

 Fairholmes, Annas, Bracelets and Strawberries, loved intimates 

 of the half century gone by. 



