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CATTLE 



The Wild Eyes tribe descends from a cow known as Wildair, 

 by Emperor (1975), purchased as a calf by Bates at J. W. Par- 

 rington's sale in 1832. Bates claimed that this tribe brought 

 into his herd the only good blood that he obtained outside of 

 the Colling herds. 



The Foggathorpe tribe descends from a cow of that name calved 

 in 1830 and bought by Bates from her breeder, Mr. Edwards, 

 when she was ten years old. She proved an unusually good 



Fig. 83. One corner of the stable at Killerby, the home of Thomas Booth in 

 Yorkshire. From photograph by the author 



breeding cow and dropped calves that later became famous. This 

 was an excellent tribe. Bates, it is said, was suspicious that Fogga- 

 thorpe was of the Princess tribe. 



The Booth family became prominent in Shorthorn history with 

 the establishment of a herd by Thomas Booth at Killerby some 

 time prior to 1790. He was then farming Warlaby and Killerby, 

 but his Shorthorn breeding began at the latter place. He is said 

 to have bought good Teeswater cows and used Colling bulls on 

 them. Booth had two sons, John and Richard, who took up the 

 work where he left off. John lived at Killerby, where he died in 



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