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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



Mr. Wetlieiell sold off everything, 37 in number, even 

 down to the " capital cattle van on springs." The last 

 proceeding looked more than suspicious. It is, how. 

 ever, a very true saying, that men will relinquish field 

 sports, however ardent devotees they may have been of it, 

 long before their means are exhausted, or their natural 

 force abated, but that the executors are pretty certain 

 to find " a small but select herd" on the premises, 

 however often the departed has sold off. Mr. Grundy's 

 case has furnished no exception to this " truly British" 

 rule. His average was not very great, but Mr. Eastwood 

 bought Cameo (200 gs.) (half sister to Butterfly), 

 Wreath (150 gs.), and Sweet Lucy (110 gs.), for Col. 

 Towneley; and Lally (73 gs.) by the Earl of Derby 

 (10,117) departed with Gilliver (100 gs.) to Mr. Am- 

 bler's. Excluding all the above females, save the two- 

 year-old Lally, four heifers of that age averaged 56 gs., 

 two yearling heifers 50 gs., and two heifer calves 33 gs. 

 Nothing was bought in ; even that curiosity the free- 

 martin Carry by Brunei (9999), which bred two bulls 

 at Wolstenholme, heard her story told at the hammer, 

 and departed with the rest j but before the close of the 

 same year Mr. Grundy made Col. Towneley an offer for 

 Sweet Lucy, then in-calf to Gilliver (11529), and with 

 her daughter, Sweetheart, by Roan Knight, the new 

 era set in most auspiciously. 



Sweetheart was the first he ever showed at The Royab 

 and will long be remembered as the third in that memo- 

 rable class of Chester yearling heifers, in which Queen 

 of the Isles and Frederick's Diadem held sway. This 

 stylish roan was sold before two o'clock on the after- 

 noon of the awards, to Mr. Douglas, for 165 gs., and 

 went into Ireland for 300 gs. She was shown in the cow 

 class at the last Dublin Spring, and stole Mr. Anthony 

 Maynard's bachelor affections so completely by 

 her good looks, that it was only in submission to his 

 two colleagues on the bench, that he gave up her claim 

 to be placed before Rosette. Sweet Lucy's fifth calf. 

 Souvenir by Roan Knight, was the winner in her pur- 

 chaser, Mr. Eastwood's, hands of the yearling heifer 

 prize at Dundalk. Horatio also did good service to Mr. 

 Grundy as the sire of Rosa Bonheur and Coquette, 

 which were sold for 350 gs. to Mr. Marjoribanks (as 

 there was nothing but their half-brother, Roan Knight, 

 to cross them with at Wolstenholme), but he injured 

 his spine by slipping on his quarters from a heifer, 

 and was obliged to be killed. Mr. Grundy was within 

 an ace of buying Jenny Lind (the dam of Musician), 

 when she was in calf with Victoria, but he could not 

 then agree as to the figure, although she subsequently 

 became his property. Taglioni (175 gs.), with Mas- 

 ter Butterfly 3rd, then a week old, at her side, was not 

 a lucky bargain, as, although Col. Towneley purchased 

 the calf at 10 months for £?15, the cow resolutely re- 

 fused to breed. Twice sha was served, and twice she 

 broke at the end of nine months, and the butcher had 

 her forthwith. Venilia, bred by Sir Charles Tempest, 

 and the dam of Vestris and Vestris 2nd, and grandam of 



Master Butterfly 2nd (who was sold for 300 gs. as a 

 yearling, and again for 400 gs. to Mr. Crookshanks at 

 the Bushey sale) proved a more lucky choice, and 

 although she has nearly given up breeding, she has pro- 

 duced three bulls, the eldest of which, Vandervelde 

 (17172), after being commended in his class at Chester, 

 went, at a good figure, to the River Plate. 



The farm buildings are principally built of rough- 

 dressed stone, from a quarry hard-by, on the estate. The 

 beams of the ceiling of the shippon have been screw- 

 jacked up 3 feet, and this extra height,in conjunction with 

 the clean white walls, the movable spar floors, the per- 

 forated zinc windows, and the sprinkling of " McDou- 

 gall," (which has been found equally efficacious when 

 the fly attacks the first sowing of turnips) gives the 

 whole a remarkably cool appearance. A large stone 

 trough in the centre-yard is fed summer and winter from 

 the hill spring behind, and the arrangements for chop- 

 ping up and then steaming the oats and straw, and 

 bruising the beans and oilcake, are on the most complete 

 scale. Victoria Regina, a daughter of Marmaduke and 

 Victorine by Baron Martin, occupied the first stall, 

 and although she has been stripped of several stone 

 since then, it was easy to recognize the highly-com- 

 mended heifer of Warwick. 



She broke one of her horns, which are by-the-bye 

 rather too dark for a breeder's eye, on the road home from 

 that show, and, like Tom Sayers, will enter the ring 

 no more. Mr. Tallant offered 50 gs. for her at six weeks 

 old, and on the whole we preferred her to Faith, when 

 they were both in traiaing. Her shoulder, back crops, 

 loins, and twist are all that can be desired ; but on the 

 per contra side must be placed a somewhat masculine 

 head and a slight tendency to be scoopy in the quarter. 

 She has had a bull-calf to High Sheriff, and is served 

 again by Red Knight. Patience by Roan Knight from 

 Princess Royal, a long level cow of §t)od quality, stood 

 next to Dignity, an own sister to Frederick's Diadem. 

 Dignity has a little of the old Butterfly head and colour, 

 but her hind-quarters are not on a par with her fore. 



Cornelian by Valiant from Cameo, and Frederick's 

 Victoria were further representatives of Towneley. Mr. 

 Grundy tried to buy the latter when she was within a 

 month of calving Bowbearer, but the figure then asked 

 made him 



" Whistle and ride away." 



Eventually it was agreed that she should be exchanged 

 for Roan Knight by Horatio from Beauty (dam of 

 Beauty's Butterfly), and her length of quarter, good 

 loins, and well-hooped ribs rhyme well with a remark- 

 ably nice head and general quality justify the choice. 



The last attribute applies very truly to F<c/or?ne, bred 

 by Mr. Carr, of Settle, and bought for 92 gs. at Mr. 

 Marjoribank's sale in 1857, in-calf of Victoria Regina. 

 She has bred three bull calves since then, in the space 

 of three years and six weeks ; and her High Sheriff 

 bull-calf was sold to Mr. Holford, M.P., at Warwick. 

 Her vis-^-vis Lady Lola, by Tom of Lincoln, was an 



