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old-fashioued useful milker, and her white eyelash told 

 at a glance of her grandsire, Buchan Hero. Etiquette 

 by Sparrow Hawk (15325) from Emily by Kossuth 

 (11646), which Mr. Grundy considers the best haired 

 animal in his herd, was away at The Dales along with 

 Faith's first-born Hope by High Sheriff. It is his rule 

 never to suckle a calf either on its dam or a nurse cow, 

 and hence Hope has been presented to his eldest son, 

 and is gaining its settlement in another parish. 



A few steps across the yard, past the crystal 

 fountain, over which Dean Close and his distinguished 

 friend " Sir Total Abstinence" might have lingered 

 with delight, brought us to the calf Hesperus by 

 High Sheriff from Victoria Regina. It is leather 

 small, owing perhaps to its having come a month 

 or five weeks before its time, but nice, neat, and 

 level withal. Venilia, in the adjoining stable, looks 

 like the remains of a vei'y fine-handling deep-bodied 

 cow. She was calved in the February of 1849, and 

 hence both hips and rumps have grown a little out of 

 proportion, but her splendid head and full eye-balls bid 

 stern defiance to time. Sir Charles Tempest bred her, 

 and sold her at his sale, and there are thirteen from her 

 and her produce at Towneley, from whence Mr. Grundy 

 purchased her ; but it seems probable from present ap- 

 pearances that the trio of bull-calves she has had at 

 Wolstenholme will be her last contributions to the Herd 

 Book. Butterfly's Decorum by Crystal (a son of Jeweller) 

 from Decorum, a cow with nice horns and head, hue not 

 first-rate behind, was another deal with Towneley, 

 whither Mr, Grundy originally sold her. She missed to 

 all their bulls, and Mr. Grundy bought her back again 

 on the off" chance. Jenny Lind, by Ben (8881) from 

 Ruby by Selim (8845), kept us poring over her a con- 

 siderable time, both for her own sake and her gold- 

 medal daughter. It is now three years since he pur- 

 chased her, and she has had two calves. As regards 

 neatness of ofi'al we saw nothing to equal her, and her 

 lengthy level form, fine quality, and old-fashioned 

 head, with the incurved horns, stamped her as worthy 

 of her line. She is, however, rather short of hair. 



High Sheriff had three bull-calves to show us, in 

 the shape of the beautifully-haired Victor Emmanuel 

 from Venilia, the neat and level Prince Regent from 

 Princess Royal, and the red lusty Joe from Jenny Lind. 

 Their senior Red Knight by Horatio from Venilia hardly 

 did justice to his lineage, as he was all to pieces with 

 cold, and he was deposed pro tern, by the white But- 

 terfly's Nephew, a son of " Dick" (13590) and Beauty 

 Zrd by Frederick. Barring his shoulders being a little 

 too forward, he is a very good bull. Few stand on such 

 a short leg, and such remarkably nice hind ones ; and 

 whether his back, twist, head, or quarters are under 

 review, it is difficult to be dissatisfied with him. Butter- 

 fly's Decorum was another of the clan, and as she is by 

 Butterfly 4th from Etiquette, her nomenclature admits 

 of no cavil; still the invention of a name for her forth- 

 coming produce by Butterfly's Nephew will be quite a 



philological puzzle. She is a very nice heifer, and with 

 the exception of a slight falling-off from the huggins, 

 as clever as one would wish to see ; but still we are not 

 sure that Prudence, who shared the next box with her 

 half-sister Lady Lally, did not please us as much as 

 anything there. She is by High Sheriff from Patience, 

 and her neck vein was wonderfully snug. Lady Lally 

 from Lidy Lola had more substance, but still, despite a 

 level, pretty top, she showed hardly so much caste. 

 We looked at the pair over and over again, till William 

 Hall, the herdsman, began to think that we were 

 quite passing a slight on Faith, whom we had left on 

 purpose to the last. We never admired her very much at 

 Warwick, and thought her if anything rather on leg, but 

 like Duchess 77th, she went on wonderfully in the next 

 three months, and perhaps no proprietor of so small a 

 herd could show two better yearlings of his off n breeding, 

 in training at one time, than her and Victoria Regina. 

 Her dam. Flirtation, was bought by Mr, Ashton when a 

 calf at Sir Charles Tempest's, and she and Patience 

 are the first that were ever dropped to Roan Knight. 

 Great size and a most capital back and loin are her 

 principal characteristics, and it was her remarkable 

 development and early transmutation from heiferhood to 

 cowhood, so to speak, which spoilt her chance in the 

 two-year-old heifer classes this year. Her somewhat 

 straight horns are rather against her, but although she 

 had to resign her laurels, without even a mention, she 

 was the only one of her Canterbury class which came 

 both in-calf and in-milk. 



We took one last look round at those we had treble 

 crosses against, and went once more on our way. The 

 leaf has fallen since then, and, as calves have fallen with 

 it, it would nevei* do not to give the very latest entries 

 in the Wolstenholme Gazette. Here they are : Princess 

 Royal has just blessed Butterfiy's Nephew with a Prin- 

 cess Rachel ; Patience has also borne a light roan bull- 

 calf, Picturesque, to him ; Victorine keeps up her 

 charter with Vangoyen; and Butterfly's Decorum has 

 got through her labours with a red roan heifer. Butter- 

 fly's Decoration, which will, we trust, be true to its 

 name. Frederick's Victoria and Victoria Regina are 

 both to calve to Red Knight in March ; but Decorum 

 and Lady Lola broke in their fifth month, and 

 have calmly passed into the final " shin o' beef 

 stage." U m U 



PRIZE FOR AN ESSAY ON SEAWEEDS.— Sir W 

 C. Trevelyan has placed at the dispoaal of the Council of the 

 Society of Arts the sum of £100, to be awarded as a prize for 

 the best easay " On the Applications of the Marine Algae, 

 and their Products, aa Food or Medicine for Man and Do- 

 mestic Animals, or for Dyeing and other Manufacturing pur- 

 poses." The essays must be the results of original research, 

 not mere compilations, and must be accompanied by a series 

 of specimens ilhutrative of the best modes of collecting and 

 preserving them,, and be sci.t in before D-'cember ^JU-t next. 



