REPORT OF TEE AGRICULTURIST 265 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



James Peter, the famous judge of Shorthorns. Bates blood runs in every strain there, 

 and no expense has been spared to secure the best, both as to character and pedigree. 

 Lord Dinsdale's dam, a light red of unusual scale, was a very heavy milker from a 

 very heavy milker ; his sire has also good breeding for milk production. 



Lunesdale Marchioness. — A magnificent roan, dropped in November, 1896, and the 

 dam of two beautiful heifers, is in calf to Land's End. She has a good record as a 

 milk producer, and it is hoped to found a deep-milking family with her off-spring. 



This cow, as well as Illuminata mentioned below, were bred by Edmund Potter, 

 Esq., Lowfields, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland. Mr. Potter's herds have been bred 

 for years as general purpose cattle and any cows not good milk producers are weeded 

 out after the first calf. His cattle are a wonderfully uniform lot, sweet, smooth and 

 well fleshed. 



Illuminata. — A deep fleshed red, dropped in 1899, is from the heavy-milking cow 

 Lustre, and is in calf to Land's End. 



From the herds of Mr. Scott Murray, Hambleden, Henley-on-Thames, was se- 

 cured the deep-milking cow Darlington Lass. She has a well-established milk record, 

 and puts all her feed into the pail. She is in calf to Hopeful Lad, and something 

 good is hoped for. 



Jessica Elmhurst. — Dropped in July, 1901, is from the same herd and from the 

 best cow of the herd. She is a dark red and is faultless in Shorthorn character and 

 conformation. 



Janet. — A light roan cow calf, dropped in October, 1900, is a sweet, smooth, deep- 

 ribbed, well-fleshed, broad-fronted and strong-backed animal from Jubilee, by Union 

 Jack. The dam is 13 years old and a cow of superior milking properties, and better , 

 Shorthorn characteristics is hard to imagine. Ten months after dropping the calf Janet . 

 she was still yielding 35 pounds (3-£ gallons) of milk daily. She is the great dairy 

 Shorthorn of the famous Duffryn Dairy Shorthorn herd. This herd, the property of . 

 Richard Stratton, Esq., The Duffryn, Newport, Mom, has been famous in the show 

 ring and dairy tests for over forty years, and still holds its own, as witness the first . 

 prize yearling heifer at the Royal Agricultural Society show at Cardiff this year, 

 bred and owned by Mr. Stratton. 



From Jas. A. Peter, Esq., Berkeley, Glos., the roan cow calf, Duchess of Tit- 

 ioria 39th, was secured. Though not so deep-fleshed nor having quite such good lines 

 as Janet, she is probably of a sweeter Shorthorn type and is worthy of her Duchess 

 descent, tracing back, as she does, to the famous Bates Duchesses and Waterloos. 

 She is by North Star from Duchess of Vittoria 34th, a strong, heavy-milking red cow. 



Guernseys. 



A large number of Guernsey herds were visited in England, and finally a selec- 1 

 tion of a bull and three cows was made from probably the premier Guernsey herd of 

 England, that of Lady Tichborne, Tichborne Park, Alresford, Hants, managed by 

 David Michie, Esq. 



The bull, Golden Rule, an orange fawn, dropped in 1899, has every indication of 

 being a good sire. He has been sent to the experimental farm at Nappan, X.S., as 

 well as Itchen Lady, a rather plain little cow of fairly good milking points. 



Clatford Spot, a strong, deep coloured animal, is to represent the breed at the 

 experimental farm at Indian Head, N.W.T., while Lily of Alderney, a finer-boned, 

 lighter-coloured and rather more milk producing type of animal, will remain at the 

 Central experimental farm. 



Two cows were secured on the Island of Guernsey, where several days were spent 

 among the herds. The cows selected were Honoria VIII a light fawn, white spots, 

 dropped 1898, and in calf to Francis Masher II. She was bred by Alfred Lepatourel, 

 Esq., La Ramee, Guernsey. In mid-Atlantic she dropped a bull calf, which offers to 

 make a fine animal. Coming as he does from a cow of such beautiful Guernsey quality 

 and deep-milking properties as Honoria VIIL, by a sire so famous as Francis Masher 

 II. much is hoped for. 



