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among the company were the Eatl of Lonsdale, the Earl of 

 Airlie, and Messrs. Ambler, Atherton, Naylor, Drewry, Doig, 

 Dickinson, McClaren (for Lord Kinnaird), G. R. Barclay, &c., 

 and several Cumberland men. The weather in the morning 

 was rather rainy and misty, but it cleared up towards twelve 

 o'clock, and there was no shower to mar the proceedings, 

 which went oflf with great spirit. This is the third great 

 Cumberland average within little more than five years. None 

 of Captain Spencer's cattle were exhibited at the recent Car- 

 lisle ehow, where only £26 were allotted to ten Shorthorn 

 prizes ! 



Bliuk Bonny was stated to be so bad with rheumatism, and 

 Bloom to be so completely amiss with cold, that they were not 

 offered, and as Josephine 2nd, which Captain Spencer had 

 originally intended to reserve, was dead, only 20 out of 

 the 23 females were put np. Among the highest lots 

 were, Lizzy, 130 gs, (Hon. Colonel Pennant) ; Leila, 105 gs. 

 (Earl Airlie) ; La Valliere, 100 gs. (Lady Pigot) ; Castanet, 

 155 gs. (Lady Pigot) ; Lady Eagle, 105 gs. (Mr. Mitchell, of 

 Alloa) ; Josephine, 155 gs. (Hon. Col. Pennant) ; Wild Eyes 

 28th, 100 gs. (Mr. Atherton); Misa Kitty, 185 gs. (Hon. 

 Colonel Pennant) ; Maid of Orleans, 67 gs. (Lord Kinnaird) ; 

 Slavonia, 52 gs. (Mr. Stevenson) ; Crown Princess, 51 gs. (Mr. 

 Braithwaite) ; and Sultana, 46 gs. (Earl of Airlie). It will thus 

 be seeu that Lizzy, and her three daughters, Leila, Josephine, 

 and Miss Kitty averaged nearly 144 guineas ; no small proof 

 of the importance of determining to have a good tribe, and 

 following it. The twenty females made £1,518 63., or an 

 average of £75 ISs. 4d. 



The ten bulls were sold as follows : Young Ben, 54 gs. 

 (Earl of Airlie) ; Seignor, 81 gs. (Lord Lonsdale); Skyrocket, 

 62 gs. (Mr. Blackstock) ; Royal Duke, 51 gs. (Mr. G. A. 

 Thompson) ; Baron Lowther, 46 gs. (Mr. W. Fox) ; Knight 

 of Distington (twin), 43 gs. (Mr. J. Caddy) ; Knight of 

 Moresby (twin), 40 gs. (Mr. G. A. Thompson) ; Prince of 

 Orange, 25 gs. (Mr. Braithwaite) ; Knight of Allerdale, 46 gs. 

 (Mr. J. B. Senhouse); and Baron Garnock, 15 gs. (Mr. 

 .Fisher). The sum total for these ten bulls was £486 33.; 

 and the average £48 128, 3d., which gives a grand total of 

 £2,004 9s., and an average for the 30 head of £66 168. 4d. 



SAiE OF Hereford Stock. — A number of very fine 

 bulls belonging to Mr. Perry, of Cholstrey, exhibited in the 

 Hereford show-yard, were bronght to the hammer during 

 the day by Mr. Russell. Lord Wellington, calved July 26tli, 

 1859, by Noble Boy, was bought in at lOU guineas; Chelms- 

 ford, 15 mouths old, also by Noble Boy, dam Carlisle, was 

 bought by Mr. Richard Hawkins, for Sil. ; Lord Nelson, 

 also l-J months old, and by Noble Boy, brought 52^. 10s., 

 being bought by Mr. Thomas Rea, of Westonbury ; St. 

 Clement and Young Salisbury, also offered for sale, were 

 not disposed of. A bull calf, Comus, the property of Mr. 

 Taylor, of Thingthill, was knocked down to Mr. Bennett 

 for 42/., and another, the property of Mr. Goode, of Fclton, 

 was sold for 27/. to Mr. Sesty. Mr. Russell also sold a 

 number of splendid bulls, the property of Mr. Price, of 

 Pembridge, which had been exhibited outside the show- 

 yard. Shamrock the Second, some 13 montlis old, was 

 knocked domr to Mr. Gibbons, of Hampton, for 48/. 4s.; 

 Garibaldi, a well-known bull, alse 13 months old, with a 

 capital pedigree, brought LOT/. 10s. He is destined for 

 Australia, we understand, and we have no doubt he will 

 support the character he bears as a really splendid bull. 

 White Nob was knocked down to Mr. Price, of Benthall, 

 near Ross, for4li/. 4s.; Perfection was purchased by Mr. 

 Philip Jones for 31/. IDs. ; and a pair of show steers — the 

 one 1 year and 10 months old, the other 1 year 9 months 

 and 2 weeks — were knocked down at 65/. 2s. to Mr. Law- 

 rence, of Croydon, Sussex. — Hereford Times. [Mr. Corner 

 has also made some other purchases of this breed for 

 Australia.] 



:MR; J. G. DIXON'S SALE OF SHORTHORNS. 



Considering thatPanton, on the previous day, had pretty 

 well di'ained their pockets, this sale was by no means ill 

 attended, both by '• Shorthorn visitors" and Lincolnshire 

 men. It was held in a field just outside Caistor, and a 

 hsadsome lunch was laid out in the schoolroom, which 



was recently built as a testimonial to Mr. Dison, by the 

 town and neighbourhood, towards whose prosperity and 

 well-being he has contributed so much. Independently 

 of two " Extra Stock" cattle, which were sold after the 

 rest, the amount realized was 1,493 guineas, being an 

 average of rather more than £29 lis. 6d. for 53. Of this 

 the 11 bulls contributed about 26 gs., and the 42 females 

 nearly 29 gs. Eight of the latter averaged 45 gs. each, 

 but this average was swelled by the white Holly, a foui'- 

 year-old daughter of Ratcliti'e and Lady Hawthorn, who 

 fell to Mr. Topham's nod for 70 gs. She was a nice mel- 

 low animal, and it was rather expected that she would 

 have gone for more. The biddings for the three last 

 heifer calves by Orthodox 20th were pretty spirited. 

 Diamond (2li gs.) was bought by 'Slv. Barnes, and Ruth — 

 a June calf of most orthodox Favourite descent, bnt with 

 rather too chubby a head — for 35 gs. by Mr. Topham. 



The six-year-old bull ElTonel was as long as a canoe, 

 and 29 gs. was all he could achieve. There were no bid- 

 dings at all for the odd-looking Orthodox 24th; but Or- 

 thodox 25th and Orthodox 26th — a son of Holly's — were 

 decidedly cheap at 29 gs. and 37 gs. respectively. Ortho- 

 dox 28th and Orthodox 29th were also well worth 35 gs. 

 they each fetched, and the former passed into Mr. Noake's 

 hands. 



Mr. Dixon was not so favoured in the weather as his 

 neighbour ; a drizzling rain set in shortly after the sale 

 commenced, and continued throughout the entire after- 

 noon. 



HEREFORDS FOR AUSTRALIA AND 

 CANADA. 



Last week three young bulls of this famed race of cattle 

 left the port of London for Mr. White, of Sydney. They were 

 selected from the following herds, viz., that of the Rev. Archer 

 Clive, Whitfield, Mr. Evans, Llandowlais, and Mr. Rees 

 Keene, Pencraig, Monmouthshire. (Tu the 24th the steamer 

 Anglo-Saxon sailed from Liverpool with one of the largest 

 and moat choice selection of these animals we have ever known 

 leave our shores at one time. They were purchased at the re- 

 cent sale of Lord Bateman's herd by Mr. J. J. Stone of Lon- 

 don, for his brother, Mr. F. W. Stone of Moreton Lodge, 

 Guelph, Canada West, who has long been a very successful 

 breeder of shorthorn cattle and Cotswold sheep; but now 

 having added another farm to his estate, he is about to com- 

 mence breeding Herefords. This gentleman, from a pure love 

 of agriculture, takes a prominent part in the progression of 

 that district, being president of their agricultural society, at 

 whose exhibition he had frequently seen with regret awards 

 given to auimals of the Hereford breed having but little claim 

 to the intrinsic merits of the. pure-bred animal. This induced 

 him to have the following purchases made upon his account 

 at Lord Bateman's sale, viz. : Gentle, Baroness, Hebe, Nelly, 

 Verbena, a daughter of Vesta (Vesta is an own sister to 

 Gentle), a daughter of Little Beauty and own sister to 

 Baroness, a daughter of Peeress and own sister to Nelly— 

 which, together with the bull Patriot, are destined to form 

 the basis of the Moreton Lodge herd of Herefords. They are 

 all of prize-taking families ; aud Gentle and Baroness were 

 two of the four heifer-winners of a first prize at Leominster, 

 1859, and are own sisters to Nymph and Vesta, the winners of 

 first prizes at Cardiff and Leominster, 1858, and second at 

 Hereford. Vesta also took a first prize at Barnstaple, 1859, 

 and Hebe and Nelly were winners of first prizes at Hereford, 

 1859, Dorchester. 1860, as well as at Canterbury. With 

 the exception of Vesta's dtughter, the animals purchased are 

 all by Carlisle (923), the winner of the first in his class at 

 Cardiff, 1858, besides eight other prizes at different agricul- 

 tural ineetinga. Vesta'a daughter is by Shobdon (1725). 

 Shobdon by Carlisle was a winner of a second prize at Barnstaple. 

 On the same day that these animals left Liverpool for Canada 

 two younc bulls from Mr.Duckham's herd sailed from Lon- 

 don, in the Star of Peace, for Sydney, viz., C.-onkhill (155H) 

 and Emperor. The former was bred by the Right Hon. 

 Lord Benvick, and by his Lordship's celebrated bull Atting- 

 ham (911 ) ; Atlingbam was a winner of first prizes at the 

 Shrewsbury and Carhsle meetings of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society of England ; Cherry the 7th, Cronkhill's dam, won 



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