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mas. Peacli by Edmund 2ad (3693), from Pine Apple 

 by Norfolk, g. d. Vestris by Cato, was sent to do battle 

 in 1843 ; and it is still a moot point among those who can 

 remember every show there, whether she or Beauty's 

 Butterfly is the most worthy gold medallist. Many con- 

 sidered that Peacli (who had the advantage by a year) 

 was more massive, while the white had greater purity of 

 character, and a better head and neck-vein. We heard 

 one of the old judges stoutly disputing the point with 

 Culshaw, who was the under-herdsman at Broughton, 

 when Peach was got ready. The late Lord Spencer was 

 in raptures with her, but he was promptly assured by 

 Mason, when he doubted whether her equal or superior 

 would ever arise, that " we have the model at home." 

 Be this as it might, Sir Charles's name, after this unpa- 

 ralleled double success, was seen in the Smithfield list no 

 more ; " the model" Pine Apple was choaked with a 

 turnip a month before calving a heifer to Mr. East- 

 wood's Harlsonia ; and Peach, for whom SOgs. had been 

 offered before she left for London, was taken back and 

 sold to Mr. Jas. Teaby, to slaughter. A celebrated New 

 York breeder begged as an especial favour to have her 

 modelled, and portraits of both her and Nina Lassave 

 aie to be seen in the first and second parts of the fifth 

 volume of Coates's Herd Book. 



Fancy, by Remus (2524), was a good purchase of 

 Mason's from Mr. Cattley, of Brandsby, and gratified 

 Sir Charles's fondness for good milking to the full, as 

 she often gave twenty quarts a day, for months together 

 after calving. Fashion by Berryman was her best, and 

 from Fashion came a bull Delcroux by Buckingham, who 

 was bought by the late Earl Ducie for 150 gs., un one of 

 his visits to Broughton. Of course, his lordship ' ' smoked 

 a cigar over him," before he decided, and sat on a chair 

 in the pasture, while Mason went to dinner, leaving 

 the boy Culshaw to herd the cows close round him. He 

 had made up his mind to bring " the hug-bellied bull," 

 when Mason came back, and then the conversation 

 ensued, which brought Knowles to Tortworth. Violet 

 from Vestris was born six weeks before her time, without 

 an atom or hair on her, and was brought up with a 

 lamb. The teapot system suited her so well that she 

 acquired a propensity to fatten, whicli no treatment 

 could subdue. As a last resource, they put her to 

 feed in a wood with a Scot ; but although the herbage 

 was such, that the latter would stand it no longer, 

 be the fence what it might, Violet bloomed as of yore, 

 and came out of her penal servitude with a coat as long 

 and matted as its early companions. Lily was one of 

 her calves, and after being weighed to something like 

 nine stone a quarter at nine months, she was shown as 

 a yearling, and won the first prize at York. Her calf 

 Lavender became to Lord Ducie's for the highest price 

 at the sale ; and Sir Charles's greatest show yards 

 triumphs were achieved by its sire, the red Dan 

 O'Connell (3557), by Berryman (2144), from Daisy, 

 a Fairfax cow, which Mason picked up in his pil- 

 grimages. Dan went with eleven others from the 

 herd to the Yorkshire show at Leeds, 1840, and 

 his four victories, two of which were in sweepstakes for 

 the best yearling bull, and the best bull of any 

 age, contributed no small quota to the £'96 worth of 

 prizes which came back to Broughton. Lord Spencer 

 shared in the universal admiration for Dan, and when 

 he looked over the lot the night before the show, he un- 

 hesitatingly said, " I can beat all the females, but I can- 

 not beat this." Splendour, another of the Broughton 

 Berrymans, was sold to Mr. Eastwood ; and Rocking- 

 ham (2550), a very good heifer-getter, also bravely 

 carried on the Fairfax line. Earl Carlisle's agent twice 

 or three times refused to put any price on Rockingham ; 

 and Sir Charles fancied him so much, from the ac- 

 count he beard of bis stock, that he went prepared 



to give 500 gs. at the Castle Howard sale, and got 

 him for 65. This was in 1838, when he was seven 

 years old; and he lived on in use at Broughton till he 

 was fourteen. He was then presented as a Christmas-box 

 to Culshaw, who remembers feelingly to this day that 

 he only received a dividend of 13s. 4d. in the £ (and a 

 blessing) out of the £6 for which he sold him. He was 

 from a daughter of Lady Sarah, the dam of the well- 

 known Castle Howard Belshazzar, and sister to Richard 

 Booth's famous Isabella by Pilot, from " White cow by 

 Agamemnon." Such was Rockingham's odd temper, 

 that it was with the greatest difficulty they got him 

 snared into the van at all, to remove him from one 

 Riding to the other ; and their usual mode of proceed- 

 ing at home, when his services were required, was to 

 open the door and run for it, and leave the dog, to 

 whom he alone owed allegiance, to drive him in again 

 as he could. 



Three years before this strange partnership ended, 

 Buchan Hero (3238) had become the premier. His 

 story was on this wise : Mason had gone to the High- 

 land show at Berwick in 1842, to try and purchase a 

 bull, and was so much struck with the Hero's looks, as 

 he filed in among the others to the show-yard, that he 

 had him priced at 200 gs., which his owner seemed to 

 think hardly enough when he found him A 1 that day. 

 Sir Charles and Mr. Whitaker joined in this bargain ; 

 and at the latter gentleman's sale in 1844 he was bought 

 out for 350 gs. (the highest hammer price for a bull 

 since Robert CoUings's sale), after a severe contest with 

 Mons. St. Marie on behalf of the French Government. 

 He was a very nice high-bred bull, with fine hair and 

 quality and a pale face ; but did not prove one of the best. 

 The dam of Puritan, Lady Buchan Fairfax, for whom 

 Lord Ducie gave loO gs. at the same sale when a calf, was 

 one of his finest daughters ; and old Fancy also pro- 

 duced a good Broughton Hero by him. Mehemet Ali 

 (7227), a rich roan, by Mussulman, introduced some 

 Lax blood about the same time ; but he died early, of 

 lung disease: and his fine looks and premise made his 

 loss one of the worst the herd ever sustained. In 1846 

 Mr. John Booth's Mowbray (7260), a son of Morning 

 Star (6223) and Mantalini, was hired ; but he also died 

 at his new home without getting many calves. A few 

 months before, Sir Charles had been a spirited buyer at 

 Mr. Watson of Walkeringham's sale. One of his pur- 

 chases, Strawberry, bred Tom of Lincoln (8714), by 

 Lord Adolphus Fairfax ; and the other, the renowned 

 Barmpton Rose, a very fine Big Tom by Tom of Lin- 

 coln. Lord Ducie bought the old cow, whose fine out- 

 line and " Durham ox head" gave such an unmistake- 

 able stamp to her, for 82 gs. at the Broughton sale, 

 and but for Big Tom being such a miserable object from 

 cripple felon, his lordship would not have separated the 

 two at any price. The old cow did him no good, but 

 she had done enough for her fame before she came to 

 Tortworth, by laying the foundation through Buttercup, 

 of the Royal Butterfly line. After the sale Liberator 

 (7140), bred by Sir Charles himself, was principally used 

 in the formation of the new herd. He bad been sold 

 from Broughton at a few weeks old for 100 gs, to Mr. 

 Linton, of Sheriff Ilutton, and won several prizes in his 

 hands; and his son Fair Eclipse (11456), bred by Mr, 

 Cattley, of Brandsby ; California, who was purchased 

 along with his dam, from Mr. Unthank, and Mr. Booth's 

 Harbinger and Prince Oscar, have been the princes of 

 the bull-yard since then, in succession. 



The herd at present consists of from 00 to 70 head, 25 

 of which are cows in milk. The home farm includes about 

 300 acres, some 30 of which are under plough ; and the 

 10 acres which are devoted to orange globe mangels and 

 turnips, not unfrequently produce 40 tons per acre, bus 

 as the land is not deep, and on rather a cold bottom, it it 



