Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-05-28

capacity. Her live weight was 1890
and her dead weight, 1920. She was
travelled through all the fine agricultural
districts Of England and added much to
the celebrity Of the Colling herd. These
gentlemen continued their breeding in
fall vigor until 1910, when Charles
made public sale Of herd, some of his
cows bringing from $1,000 to %, e2O, and
his best bulls from $1,000 to $3.50.
His Al head sold for s35,579. Robert
continued breeding until 1918 when he
made sale of 81 head Of his herd, which
brought him ESQ PCS. In 1920 he sol'd
out the remainder oEhis herd, forty-s.ix
head, for sll.s6s. Major B. 1Aeed
bought three of the finest COWS and a
bull, Petrach, Thomas Both The ball
Albion, aud Thomas Bates the better
Duchess, at Charles's sale. Maio
Reed bought four heifers and, boo d
the bull Pilot at Robert sale.
The rest ofthsse distinguished he ,rds
were bought by TIE various breeders O
England, Maj. Reed, Thomas Piootf
and Mr.. Bates getting the ones they
valued most. Thomas Booth Of F,ellery
was contemporary Of the ColliDgs and
a bro der of some note. He left two
sons, John and Richard, both of whom
became shor.horn breeders and succeed
ed their father. John had one son, ThoS.
| &. Booth, who inherited the herds both
of his father and uncle. With these
herds and some of the best blood of the
Colling cattle, he weHt to breeding
with great skill and has given his herds
a worldwide reputation. This is the
Booth of the present, and the rival Of
Mr.. Bates. Mr.. Booth had standard
of 5ss own, and bred to it. There is
great similarity in his cattle. They are
generally deep mixers and ara con-
sidcred equal to any IN the world BY
many breeders. His best were Neck
lace. Bracelet and Medora. No animal
in All probability, ever excited more
suplsuse then Medora did ut Otley,
when she and her six daughters were
led around the show ring, all decorated
with prize favors. Isabella was quite
distinguished. His most noted bull was
Commander IN Chief. Queen Of May
WAS his best and finest animal, and he
refused for her 1900 guineas, or a7,S75.
Mr.. Thomas Bates, OF Kcshleavington.
came on the stage as a breeder in the
latter days of the Ceilings, and bought
his FIRST shorthorns from Charles and
afterwards bought from Robert. He
bought his Duches cows of Charles
Collins selected this family as superior
to all the rest, as small consumers.
great growers, quick grazers, with the
finest quality Of beef cattle. His first
Duchess, kept on grass only, in pasture
with nineteen other cows, made in
milk and butter sI0,50 per week.
This COW was got by Dairy bull, and
Dairy was by Favorite. He also
bought at Charles Ceilings sale young
Duchess, by Comet, then two years old
at 1850. Down to 1881 Mr.. Bates had
bred thirty Duchess cows, and in all had
only used bulls of purely Duchess
blood, except Mantle, which was sire of
Duchess 7th, 9Th and 9th. He bred Oh
the Duchess blood down to Duchess
32nd. He then purchased Belviders OF
the Princess tribe of Robert Collng, land
used him for several years. thus infuslng
some new blood into his Favorite
family. The Duke Of Northumberland
cut Of Duchess 34th ny Belvidere was
the finest bull Mr.. Bates ever bred and
was never exec lied in his day. His
dam. at nine years old took the premium
over Mr.. Booths celebrated Necklace
at four years old, at one Of the best
cattle shows IN England Mr.. Bates
continued breeding this family down to
the 64th Duchess and made it the most
noted tribe ofcattle in the world. aud il
Is this family Of cattle that made Mr..
Bates the most noted breeder OF
England OF Of the world. All wealthy
breeders nearly are eager 10 possess
some Of this family or some OF his Ok
ford family but if not able to grapple
with the pure Bates blood they strive
to get all the Bates blood they can with
which 10 cross their herds. One Of this
family, the Duchess Of Geneva the 9Th
sold at the New York bulls sale for
the fabulous SUN OF $40, 600, and an other
for S35,000 and a sucking heller for
$4,000. Mr.. Bates had other fine
families besides the Oxford and Ouch.
ess. The Waterloo, descended from
the comet, the Red Rose, the Wild
Eyes, and the Faggathorpe families,
all cattle Of distinction aud merit. Mr..
Bates never sold any females Of the
Duchess and Oxford families during his
lie. The females with few exceptions
were all bred 10 bis Duchess and Ok
ford bulls.
There were other distinguished
breeders Of shsrt horns besides Messrs.
Booth and Bates, who bred very fine
cattle, probably just as good as those
Of these two distinguished gentlemen,
and perhaps Of rather better constitu.
tons and more fertility, as they were
not bred in 10 so great and extent
There is such thing possible as carry
ing this in and in breeding too far, and
it has TO be done with great care and
judgment. From some cause or ether
the Duchess families, and il is generally