THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



1845.—At Cirencester, best breeding cow, £8 ; 

 and — 



1848.— At Gloucester, best cow and calf, £10. 



PRODUCE. 



Dec, 1841. — Young Moss Rose, by Lottery 

 (4280). 



Jan., 1842. — White bull. Young Pha^nix, a 

 winner of three prizes. 



1S44. — White heifer, when exhibited with its 

 dam, won three prizes, and sold at a high price 

 when one year o!d. 



1843. — Red heifer, a winner at Bristol and 

 Wootton Basset, as best heifer calf; sold to Lord 

 Radnor. 



1846. — Red heifer calf, by Kenilworth— dead. 



Jan., 1847. — Red heifer, Ruby, by Kenilworth, 

 •winner of ten prizes, and dam of the bull Waterloo. 

 Her dead weight was 195 stone. 



Dec, 1S47. — The heifer Matchless, by Red Duke, 

 winner of twenty prizes, amounting to £116, dam 

 of Fair Maid, sold for France, at 2 years old, for 

 £200 ; and of Sanspareil, also sold for France, and 

 exhibited at both the Paris shows, winning two 

 gold medals and two prizes of £40 each. She also 

 bred Lord of the Manor, a very celebrated prize 

 bull. 



Dec, 1848.-— Red bull calf, sold to Lord Bar- 

 rington. 



1850.— Bull Clarendon. This bull v/on twenty 

 prizes, amounting to £146, and is still in use. 

 From him sprung the white London gold medal 

 ox, and many other prize winners. 



1851.— Roan cow calf Matchless 2nd, winner of 

 twenty-two prizes ; dam of Matchless 4th, by Wa- 

 terloo (almost her full brother). Matchless 4th 

 took the second prize at Chester, and has won ten 

 other prizes, although only 3 years old. 



1852. — 3rd Moss Rose ; was sold to go to 

 America, after winning first prize at Bristol as best 

 heifer calf. 



1853.— King John, red, by Waterloo, the old 

 cow's grandson. This bull won ten prizes, and 

 was sold to Mr. Cowley, near Daventry. 



1854.— White heifer (never bred), took the first 

 prize and silver medal at the Smithfield Show in 

 1857. 



1856. — Red and white heifer, took the first prize 

 at Worcester, as yearling heifer, 1857. 



1857. — White heifer calf, smothered in calving. 



Young Moss Rose, by Lottery (4280), calved 

 Dec, 1841, was not exhibited in early life, as she 

 produced a calf (by her own sire) at 2 years and 

 3 months old. She went to Cirencester, Glouces- 

 ter, Chippenham, and Bristol with her offspring, 

 and won at each occasion, in all about £40. 



PRODUCE. 



1844. — Roan heifer Elegance, by Lottery (4280), 

 was perhaps the best breeder of the tribe. She 

 produced three females by Red Duke, all of which 

 were excellen — first, Red Duchess of Gloucester 

 1st, still at Broad Hinton, has won many prizes, 

 and is still breeding, having lately produced her 

 seventh calf ; then, 2nd Duchess, sold to Mr. Logan, 

 Wales, has been most successful as a prize-taker 

 and breeder; and Duchess of Glo'ster 3rd, of which 

 a portrait was given in the Farmer's Magazine for 

 November, 1857, won many prizes and medals, 

 including two gold ones. 



Young Moss Rose has bred fourteen calves, 

 nearly all of which were successful at local shows, 

 and one heifer took a prize at the Paris Exhibition 

 Victory, a two-year-old bull from her, has already 

 been a winner of twelve prizes. 



At that very pleasant meeting, of the Sparkenhoe 

 Farmers' Club, we have witnessed one or two de- 

 cided novelties to the customary proceedings of 

 such associations. First, and best of all, the ladies 

 not merely honour the show v/ith iheir presence, 

 but the dinner also ; while in the programme of the 

 day we come upon a class that in all our peregrina- 

 tions we have never seen at any other gathering of 

 the kind. There was a prize for Shepherd's Dogs, 

 and some half-dozen or so entered for it— ranging 

 from the useful bob-tailed breed to the more grace- 

 ful-looking colley. The judges went for the latter, 

 but we do not know " the points" upon which they 

 would decide. However, Stoutness, Courage, In- 

 stinct, Shape, and Temper should be the chief re- 

 commendations of such a servant, and the last not 



PLATE II. 



THE DOG IN THE MANGER. 



the least of these virtues. Either about a house or 

 a flock, a bad-tempered dog is a sad nuisance. He 

 over-worries the sheep in getting round them, 

 frightens the children whenever he meets them, and 

 keeps the stock out of their own proper rights and 

 places. "The Dog in the Manger " is just such 

 a surly cur, with not even the excuse of minding 

 his master's coat, for his inhospitable challenge to 

 that wonderfully well- painted grey horse. But no 

 doubt Pincher gets his dues in time— a mild rebuke 

 administered on the point of a hob-nailed boot, a 

 crack over the head with a hedge stake, or a dig in 

 the side from a much-enduring Hereford. Every- 

 body, in short, is ready to give him a bad name, 

 and one adage may so correct the other. 



