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his show chances were out, as he got fast ia a hovel next 

 autumn, and injured his shoulder severely. The ewes 

 are only sold to be killed or to go abroad, and the flock 

 now numbers about 160 of them. The crop of lambs 

 this year has been unusually good, and made up about 

 204 from 130. Last year was especially unlucky, as at 

 least 80 lambs died at lambing time, from inflammation 

 of the navel, which gradually spread to the bowels, and 

 was thought to be caused in some measure by the mangel. 

 In this year's crop there were 80 doublets and three 

 triplets ; but, like every good flock-master, Mr. Sanday 

 prefers singles. The ewe lambs usually predominate, 

 and every year two or three " negroes " arrive. Strange 

 to say, it is 1,000 to 1 against their getting a black lamb, 

 although the colour comes out very often in the grand- 

 children. The rams generally muster about 100, and of 

 these about 80 to 90 are let every year, while others take 

 their departure to New Zealand, Australia, America, 

 the West Indies, and, in short, to almost every clime 

 where mutton and wool are in the market. Four or 

 five of the choicest, which this year include a 

 Warwick first, aud a Canterbury first and second, are 

 kept for home service, and serve a limited number of 

 ewes at from li to 2 guineas. The letting average of 

 £30 Us. for forty, in 1859, was the highest Mr. Sanday 

 has yet had ; but the top price was 111 gs. , given by Mr. 

 Thunder, in 1860. The private letting goes on from 

 July to September; and the rams, whose expenses of 

 transit are borne one way by Mr. Sanday, return from 

 their quarters in November. About 400 sheep are 

 annually brought to the shearing stools, and the average 

 weight of the fleece is about 71bs. 



Amid all these Leicester calculations, Mr. Sanday 

 has, like Mr. Jonas Webb, a very warm corner in his 

 heart for Shorthorns. His essays in this line had a 

 dash of Booth in them from the first, as they were 

 opened in 1849 by the purchase of four cows and heifers 

 in calf to Pestalozzi (by Buckingham from Cassia by 

 Leonard), at the Walkeringham sale. Foggathorpe 

 4th then fell to his nod at Kirklevington, and then 

 Vellum, the first Royal prize cow at Gloucester, Lydia 

 Languish and her daughter Lavender by Daniel 

 O'Connell, and Lady Valentine, were among nine 

 which he purchased in a lot from Mr. H. Smith's of 

 the Grove, Cropwell. Three of them were sold at good 

 prices, to America, where Lavender's Duke of Glo'ster 

 daughter was a great winner. The Nunwick Hall sale 

 furnished its useful quota in the supposed barren Fan- 

 chette, a pure Booth with the exception of the Petrarch 

 cross, for 30 gs., who proved to be in-calf with Faith to 

 Sir Charles ; and Crystal, bred by Mr. Parkinson of Ley 

 Fields, and Sugar-plum, from Mr. Scott's of Tortworth, 

 have been equally useful purchases. Tortworth also 

 found him a royal winner in Vatican by Usurer, who 

 beat all the aged bulls, with Windsor second, at the 

 Lincoln Meeting in 1854. Mr. H. Smith owned half of 

 him, but they were not sorry to get rid of him to America 

 for 100 gs.; and he only left two representatives at Holme- 

 pierrepont. Since then Mr. Sanday has used nothing but 

 Booth bulls. He began with Harbinger, and kept him 

 for two years, when he 'passed him over to Sir Charles 



Tumpest, and got The Corsair, by Crown Prince, 

 dam by Crown Prince, in his place. Harbinger left 

 nineteen of his stock behind him, but some cf them 

 were purchases from Mr. Henry Smith of Cropwell. 

 His principal get during that period was Nottingham, 

 from Princess, who attracted the fancy of Mr. Stratton, 

 when six months old, and became in after-years 

 the celebrated steer-getter of Broadhinton. General 

 Havelock, another son of Crown Prince, succeeded 

 The Corsair from Warlaby; and Highthorn, by 

 Baron Warlaby, brings the link down to Sir James, 

 the son of Sir Samuel and Nectarine Blossom, who is 

 now in his second season. Second Duke of Bolton, by 

 Bates's Grand Duke from Florence, was scarcely used 

 at all. Mr. Sanday bought him originally as a calf at 

 the sale of Mr. Samuel Boldcn, in whose hands he 

 proved the sire of Third Grand Duke ; but he was 

 slaughtered early, on account of becoming so heavy. 

 The herd consists of about seventy in all, but they are 

 only in store condition ; and all Royal show energies are 

 expended entirely upon the sheep. In fact, good blood 

 and plenty of milk and calves is the great and sole end 

 Mr. Sanday has in view. 



The house is situated nearly four miles from Notting- 

 ham, on the Melton Mowbray road ; and is about 

 half-a-mile from Earl Manvers's residence. The farm- 

 buildings are grouped closely behind it ; and those who 

 prefer flowers, or golden pencils and golden spangles, to 

 Shorthorns and Leioesters, have full scope for con- 

 templation. Our business was, however, with the 

 latter, and we sallied out after an early breakfast, ren- 

 dered all the sweeter by a long walk through The Vale, 

 to break ground in the long calf hovel. 



Ten out of eleven calves there owned Sir James as 

 their sire. Two-thirds of his stock are heifers, but 

 there are rather too many whites among them. The 

 first in the row was a clever white heifer from Chrysalis, 

 and next to him a roan bull, Waverley III., from 

 Welcome, by Harbinger. Mr. Rowland Campion bid 

 Mr. Sanday 20O gs. in vain for this cow, which the 

 latter especially values for the blood of Water Witch, 

 who was among the first lot of females he purchased from 

 Mr. Henry Watson. Waverley has four crosses of 

 Booth in his escutcheon, and his head at once tells of 

 his sire, while his long quarters, good back, and hind 

 legs well under him, all indicate that he will ripen into 

 a very promising fellow ; still he is somewhat short of hair, 

 and certainly not the best handler of the lot. The rod 

 heifer from Laundry maid, who goes back through Laven- 

 der to Lily by Brutus, has great depth of body, and a pecu- 

 liarly rich flank, and- in her case, as in Waverley's, the 

 tendency to dewlap gives her a very robust character. The 

 first of the white bulls, Lord Lovell, from a 2nd Duke of 

 Bolton, is very promising ; and so is his white neighbour, 

 Figaro (from Faith by Sir Charles), who has only one cross 

 which is not Booth. The roan heifer, from a Duke of 

 Glo'ster cow, was rather amiss, and, among the others, 

 we were struck with the good middle piece and well let 

 down quarters of Lucy Long from Lucy Lockit, whose 

 head somewhat reminded us of the Maid of Athelstane's, 

 A nice coloured roan ball of Jan. 27 from Sugar Flam 



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