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at the Colling sale in 18 10 for 183 guineas. Duchess I, the 

 foundress of this Bates tribe, was a notable cow and the dam of 

 Duchesses II, III, IV, V, and the bull Cleveland (146). This 

 was the most celebrated tribe of Bates and the one in which he 

 centered his deepest interests. Duchess 34th, by Belvedere (1706), 

 perhaps his most noted cow, was bred to her sire, from which 

 came the famous Duke of Northumberland (1940),- regarded by 

 Bates as his greatest achievement as a breeder. At the Bates 

 dispersal sale fourteen cattle of this tribe averaged about ^575 

 a head. 



The Oxford tribe. Bates purchased of James Brown a cow 

 known as the Matchem Cow, sired by Matchem (2281). At the 

 first Royal Agricultural Society Show of England at Oxford her 

 daughter was the first prize in class and was given the name 

 " Oxford Premium Cow." The Oxfords, however, all trace to her 

 half sister, Oxford 2d, by Short Tail (2621), a son of Belvedere 

 (1706). This was a favorite family of Bates's. At his dispersal 

 sale thirteen Oxfords averaged about ^340 each. 



The Waterloo tribe, descended from a cow known as the Water- 

 loo Cow, was bought by Bates in 1831. She was sired by a bull 

 named Waterloo (2816) and was out of a cow by this same sire. 

 Otherwise little is Known of the ancestry of this tribe. Two 

 daughters of the Waterloo Cow — Waterloo 2d, by Belvedere, and 

 Waterloo 3d, by Norfolk (2377) — proved excellent breeders at 

 Kirklevington. Six Waterloos in Bates's sale averaged nearly 

 ^300 each. The only cows secured by Scotch buyers at the 

 Bates dispersal sale were Waterloo 12th and 13th, bought by 

 Amos Cruickshank and W. Hay. 



The Cambridge Rose tribe was a direct descendant from the 



Red Rose tribe of Robert Colling. In 1823 Bates had a Red 



Rose cow drop a bull calf which he named Second Hubback 



(1423). This bull he used freely on his Duchess cows, producing 



excellent results. In 1840, with a heifer of this family, he won 



high honors at the Royal Agricultural Society Show at Cambridge, 



which resulted in his naming her Cambridge Rose, the foundress 



of a new tribe. The noted cow Rose of Sharon, imported in 



1834 from England by the Ohio Importing Company, was of 



this tribe. 



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