THE FAilMEK'8 MAGAZIjNE. 



NOVEMBER, 1857. 



PLATE I. 

 A SHORTHORN COW, 



THE PROPERTY OF MR. RICHARD STRATTON, OF BROAD HINTON, SWINDON. 



'1 nis cow, to be traced as the " Third Duchess of Gloucester," was bred at Broad Hinton, and 

 talved on the 2nd of October, 1851. She was by Red Duke (8624), out of Elegance, by Lottery (4280)^ 

 her dam Young Moss Rose, by Lottery (4280)— Moss Rose, by Phoenix (6290). 



The "Third Duchess of Gloucester" has long been famous at our agricultural shows. In 1853, 

 when two years old, she took a first prize of 10 sovs. at Cirencester, another of 10 sovs. at Gloucester, 

 a third of 10 sovs. at Newport, Monmouthshire ; one of 5 sovs. at Chippenham, and another of 5 sovs 

 at Devizes. 



In 1854, "Third Duchess of Gloucester" took the first prize of 8 sovs. as the best cow in-milk or 

 in-calf, at the Bath Meeting of the West of England Society, the first prize of 10 sovs. at the Ripon 

 Meeting of the Yorkshire Society, another of 10 sovs. at Gloucester, another of 10 sovs. at Cirencester ; 

 and, again, one of 5 sovs. each at Chippenham and Devizes. 



At the Great Paris Exhibition of 1855, "Third Duchess of Gloucester" received the first prize of 28 

 sovs., and the gold medal, as "the best cow." In July, 1856, she cast twin calves, and in the followmg 

 month was put up to fatten for Christmas. Her success here was as great as it had been when she was 

 shown as a breeding animal. At Gloucester she took the first prize of 6 sovs. ; at Birmingham the first 

 prize of 10 sovs., with the silver medal to Mr. Stratton as the breeder; and at the Smithfield Club the 

 first prize of 20 sovs., with the silver medal to the breeder, and the gold medal as "the best of all 

 the cows or heifers." 



Indeed, " the most perfect animal in the yard was Mr. Stratton's Short-horn cow." She was a 

 most beautiful one, both in colour and frame; of a deep, symmetrical form throughout ; head and 

 horns good, with a very handsome countenance ; her neck and chine, perhaps, rather too fine in propor- 

 tion to her general frame, but in every other respect nearly perfect. She stood wide and noble-looking, 

 while her amount of firm flesh was something really wonderful. 



Mr. Stratton deservedly stands very high as a breeder of Shorthorns, and as a feeder he had it 

 this last year more than ever his own way. What with the white ox— a portrait of which was given in 

 our June number— and this cow, he carried all before him in the Shorthorn classes at the three great fat- 

 cattle shows of the season— at Birmingham, the Smithfield Club, and at Poissy, the Smithfield of Paris. 



PLATE II. 



WARLOCK; A Thoroughbred Entire Horse. 



Warlock, bred by Lord Durham in 1853, is by Birdcatcher out of Elphine, by Emihus, her dam 

 Variation, by Bustard — Johanna Southcote by Beningborough. 



Irish Birdcatcher, bred in Ireland, in 1833, is by Sir Hercules out of Guiccioli, by Bob Booty. His 

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