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pany, and by consent of the purchasers, put up again on the second in their 
proper places and resold, at more than Forty Guineas advance. I doubt not 
the truth of my information that also Garrick, Sultan, and Young Sultan, 
to mention no more, might have been resold by private contract at the 
advanced price of Two Hundred and Fifty Guineas. 
It has been matter of candid speculative enquiry by some, whether 
upon the principle of advantage it can answer the purpose of those who 
were purchasers of Cow stock at so great prices ? and the question has 
illiberally, and as positively been answered in the negative by others. It is 
more than probable the same sentence would have been pronoimced by such 
arbitrary judges upon the conduct of Mr. 'FowLEE on his first setting out. 
He began with two Cows, purchased at what was then thought to be a great 
price, from Mr. Webstee’s stock, of Canly, in the county of Warwick-, to 
these he hired a Bull called Twopenny, of Mr. Bakewell. Hence may be 
dated the beginning of his improvement. And why another man with a 
small number of the same kind of stock greatly improved to begin with, may 
not make an advantage in a considerable proportion to Mr. Fowlee, who 
had also but a small number to begin with, will I think need some reason 
to explain. 
In the above-mentioned Cows and Bull, Mr. Fowlee was very fortunate: 
from them he had the two Cows called Old Long Horn Beauty and Old Nell. 
He had several Bulls of Mr. Bakewell afterwards, but since the Bull called 
D, Sire of Shakespeare, which he had of him about the year 1778, he kept 
entirely to his own stock. 
Mr. Fowlee was somewhat peculiar in his conduct respecting the im- 
provement of his stock ; which I conceive to have been one reason, amongst 
others, of his having succeeded so well. He made it a rule long ago, not to 
part with a superior Cow while he entertained a hope of her being useful to 
him as a breeder. The great prices which he has been olFered for some of 
them (particularly the sum of One Thousand Guineas for three Cows and a 
Bull) nor the advice of his friends to accept such offers, were sufficient to 
induce him to deviate from a plan which he had long adhered to with 
advantage. Perhaps one reason for his adopting this plan might have been, 
his having sold to Mr. Get of Taddington, three of Twopenny's Heifers, for 
which he was said to have repented ever after ; these he sold about the year 
1771 at Eighty Guineas, and afterwards offered to re-possess himself with 
one of them called The Painted Lady, at the price he had taken for the 
three. 
With these Mr. Gcr set out as a breeder of this kind of stock, and 
although unfortunate in the choice of some Bulls which he afterwards made 
use of, and therefore not so successful as he otherwise might have been, yet, 
the prices of his stock which was sold by Auction in April 1790 are suffi- 
cient to convince us of their esteemed superiority to most others ; some of 
his Cows (by a Bull of Mr. Fowlee's) sold from Thirty to upwards of Forty 
Guineas apiece ; this I mention here as another instance of advantage 
(although much inferior to Mr. Fowlee's) derived from breeding this kind 
of stock from a small beginning. 
I do not mean to attribute all the advantage which Mr. Fowlee has 
received from breeding to his Cow stock, altho’ they were esteemed much 
superior to his stock of Sheep. The merit of his Sheep appears to have 
been derived also, directly or indirectly, from the stock of Mr. Bakewell, 
by whom their excellence being more fully exemplified, I shall say but little 
concerning them. He had for several years been endeavouring to improve 
this part of his stock by the use of Eeioestershire Earns, and of his success 
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