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various tributai-ies, becomes a rivulet, and eventually swells 
into the dignity of a river. This will apply to other breeds, 
but as the simile suits the Shorthorn case it may be fitly appro- 
priated here. Far back in the last century we trace the bubbling- 
up from obscure sources. It is really groping work when we try 
to explore beyond " Old Tripes," the cow which scholars naturally 
imagine hobbling on three feet, although unlearned intei'preters, 
saving a syllable in the pronunciation, associate her name with 
onions. In like manner the Shorthorn bull " Bootes " was 
popularly known as " Boots." 
The first volume of the Shorthorn Herd-hooh, edited by 
Mr. George Coates with funds supplied by Mr. Whitaker, was 
printed at Otley, Yorkshire, in the year 1822. Mr. Coates was 
assisted by his son, who after his death continued the work to 
the fifth volume inclusive, when Mr. Henry Strafford became 
the proprietor and editor. The sixth volume, issued in 1846, 
and the succeeding volumes to the twentieth inclusive, which 
comprises births down to the end of the year 1872, were Mr. 
Strafford's. The Shorthorn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 
associated for the purposes of maintaining the purity and pro- 
moting the breeding of Shorthorn cattle, then purchased the 
property from Mr. Strafford, and have issued the volumes 
annually. The thirty-fifth volume, published September 1889, 
including the births of 1888, brings up the number of recorded 
bulls to 58,369. The cows and heifers have no reference numbers. 
The Shorthorn was a long-established breed when the first 
prize-schedule of the Royal Agricultural Society of England 
was issued, and had, of course, separate Classes from the first. 
At Oxford in 1839 its representatives were certainly animals of 
great merit. Some Judges have thought them the best ever seen 
in any show-yard. On this question, however, opinions differed 
in 1839, and have differed even more widely since that year. 
The Oxford Show was remarkable, so far as the Shorthorn 
classes were concerned, for the cattle exhibited by Mr. Bates, 
whose celebrated bull " Duke of Northumberland," two females 
of the same family, and " Oxford Premium Cow," who left the 
" Oxford " name to her half-sister's lineal descendants, were 
the leading winners. At Cambridge, in 1840, the Kirklevington 
blood was again to the front, and the " Cambridge Rose " 
tribe derived its name from Mr. Bates's winning heifer, 
descended from the "Red Roses" of Mr. Robert Colling. 
At Liverpool, in 1841, Mr. Bates had a powerful rival in the 
field, and the chief honours in the Full-aged Classes were divided 
between himself and Mr. John Booth, of Killerby, whose cattle 
held a leading position in several years, until his brother, Mr. 
