GOi Report on tJte Cattle Exhibited at Windsor. 
llicliard Booth, became an exhibitor at the Royal Shows, and over 
the space of nearly twenty years gained repeatedly the principal 
honours, besides supplying to other breeders the blood which 
often carried off the prizes. Mr. Bates died in 1849, and his 
herd, dispersed by public sale in 1850, has largely contributed 
to the composition of many herds successfully represented in the 
Royal Show-yards, whilst occasionally lineal representatives of 
his cattle have taken the honours. The late Earl Ducie was 
the principal immediate follower of Mr. Bates. The herd of 
jMr. Richard Booth, amalgamated with the best blood in his 
brother's herd at Killerby, through the use of the bull " Buck- 
ingham," passed, after his death in 1 8G4, into the hands of his 
nephew, the late Mr. T. C. Booth, who exhibited with signal 
success at Leicester in 1868 and Manchester in 1869, afterwards 
resting upon the reputation won by the Warlaby herd and 
declining further exhibition. His later policy has been con- 
tinued by his executors since his widely-lamented death in 
1878, yet the influence of that herd is still evident, year after 
year, in the Shorthorn Classes at the Royal Shows. Reference 
to another member of the Booth family must not be here omitted. 
One of Mr. T. C. Booth's brothers (of whom, also, it is sad to 
write " the late "), Mr. J. B. Booth, of Killerby, using his uncle's 
and afterwards his bi'others bulls at Warlaby, bred up a herd 
from which, directly and indirectly, proceeded a host of Royal 
prize-winners, but the last Killerby herd, unlike that of War- 
laby, was dispersed after its owner's death. 
It is impossible in a report of this kind to mention by name 
all or any considerable number of the Shorthorn breeders whose 
cattle, exhibited by themselves or by other owners, have taken 
leading places among the winners during the past half-century. 
A few may be mentioned as representative men. The names of 
Messrs. Wetherell, Wiley, Lax, Parkinson, B. Wilson, Mason 
Hopper, W. Smith, and T. Chrisp are associated with the 
breeding of high-class Shorthorns in the old-fashioned way, 
each depending upon his own really sound judgment rather 
than upon the verdict of the world in general in favour of any 
one strain of blood. The Raine family of Gainford had a prize- 
winning herd tracing back to the dawn of Shorthorn history. 
Sir Charles Tempest may be said to have founded a distinct 
strain. The late Earl of Feversham, recognising the high merits 
of the Kirklevington type, took it as his pattern, and used 
largely, but not exclusively, the Kirklevington blood. 
At the Leeds Meeting, Colonel Gunter, who after the death of 
Earl Ducie was the principal owner of Mr. Bates's " Duchesses " 
in England, won the first prize for ''Duchess 77th," bred exclu- 
