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seTcn-months' calf, was bought in, after some very 

 rapid 50-guiaei volleys, at 400 gs. ; while Master 

 Butterfly 2nd departed to Mr. Cruickshanks' Highland 

 home for 400 gs., where he died not many weeks 

 since from afTectiou of the brain. The same gentlemiin 

 fought it out, bidding for bidding, up to 490 gs. for 

 Marmaduke, but did not care to go on after the decisive 

 "five hundred guineas!" from the lips of Mr. Har- 

 vey Combe, who had no notion of seeing him go over 

 the Border. Mr. Marjoribanks's fancy for a calf by 

 The Duke of Glo'ster had induced that gentleman to 

 oppose Mr. Banks Stanhope at Hendon for Marma- 

 duke, and at this sale nearly all his cows were in calf by 

 him. One heifer of his blood alone remains at Bushey 

 Grove; but he has set a most unmistakable mark on 

 the herd of his adoption, where nine-tenths of his 

 calves have been heifers. Old Cambridge Rose, that 

 remnant of Kirklevington, has been in the fashion, and 

 her Moss Rose is among the sweetest-looking of the 

 Cobham calves. Gracious out of Graceful, and Ayah 

 out of Asia, are nearly as beautiful as they can be ; and 

 those cousins-german. Samphire out of Sea Weed, and 

 Saucy out of Saucebox, and Looy, who reproduces her 

 mother Leila's beautiful head, complete a half dozen 

 which would be hard to beat in any herd. There may 

 be a little lightness of thigh and coarseness of head and 

 horn in Marmaduke ; but his undeniable top and won- 

 drous crops and shoulders atone for all ; and his rich- 

 haired daughters will, with their sire help to shoot the 

 average not a little on the 23rd inst. 



But we must not wander in the spirit from Bushey to 

 Cobham, closely as we once alas ! wore wont to connect 

 them. The Bushey herd No. 4 is already, to judge from 

 precedent, through quite half its allotted span, and ri- 

 pening gaily for dispersion. Since the last sale there 

 have been considerable alterations in the farm buildings. 

 The last chimney of the old farm house has bowed its 

 head to the ropes, and fcli as we were vievviDg Crutchey, 

 by Booth's Prince George, out of Pink by Tinsley, in 

 the scrupulously neat straw-yard, and thinking from her 

 nice snug make that she could not fail to be a bull 

 breeder ; while divers old cow-houses and pigstyes have 

 alike yielded to fate and the stonemason. There are 

 now upwards of 60 loose boxes on the premises, with 

 some fifty head of cattle in them, not including the 

 dozen polled Galloways, wlio act as scavengers aanong 

 the rough grass, and are tied up the week before Christ- 

 mas in beds of chaff and cavings. The cows were wont 

 to be tied up before, but now they are housed in boxes 

 thirteen feet by nine, while those for the young stock 

 are rather smaller. The zinc troughs at the head of 

 each manger run the whole length of the buildings, and 

 are supplied by a pump ; spar compartments of about 

 four and a-half feet between them help the ventilation, 

 and the name of each animal is nattily painted above it. 



Entering at one corner we first came vis a vis with 

 White Rose, a cow of fine substance and especial loins 

 and ribs, by Whittington (12229), out of Windsor 

 Flower, by Earl of Scarboro', the Windsor winner. 

 She was bought as a heifer from Mr. Wetherell, and 

 won some prizes in that eminent breeder's hands. Pepita 



a roan and a very good milker, but with the bloom 

 rather off her, from recent calving, represents the Bates's 

 Refiner blood. She was bought by Mr. Stratford with 

 Camelia (who has since been sold to the Emperor of the 

 French), at Mr. Chrisp's sale, where they ranked among 

 the best. ]\Ir. Lax's Ravensworth tribe is represented 

 in Myrtle by The Vicar (15408), out of Rosa, who 

 unites with fine quality of flesh and substance a some- 

 what old-fashioned head. Her neighbour, Annie, is by 

 Captain Shafto, the prize bull at the Northampton 

 Royal ; and her compact little form, snug shoulders, 

 and well-sprung ribs, have been well reproduced in her 

 clever bull-calf. Baron of Bushey, by Booth's Brides- 

 man. Master Butterfly has a worthy representative in 

 Red Butterfly, out of Yestris 2nd, who was bought from 

 Colonel Towneley for the same sum that Mr. Cruick- 

 shanks gave for her brother at the sale ; but she is 

 not three years old, and is not likely to enter 

 a show-yard yet. Ruby 4th, by Horatio, who came 

 from Col. Towneley along with her, strains back to Lax's 

 Duke, and is, save and except Lucy, the most massive 

 cow in the yard. She was highly commended in her 

 class at Chester ; and her bull calf, Bravo, was lately 

 parted with to Mr. Samuel Brooks, of Manchester — a 

 new acquisition to the Short-horn owners, and a'ready 

 the president of a society. 



Anon we came across old Kirkee, who was bred by 

 Mr. Grant Duff, county Banff, and was one of the two 

 cows retained at the 1857 sale. She was well bought in 

 at 130 gs., as she has proved herself, by producing five 

 heifers in succession in 50 months, the most profitable 

 cow that ever came to Bushey. There are several 

 crosses of Booth and Bates' blood in her; but her 

 daughter Kirkee in. by Booth's King Arthur at her 

 side does not fulfil anticipation. The Kirkee numbers 

 are now given up ; and her last calf is Queen of the 

 South by Melbourne IL, who is now among Mr. 

 Dudley Marjoribanks's shorthorns at the Bushey Hall 

 farm. His sire, Melbourne I., was bought as a 

 bull calf from Mr. W. Smith, of Rasen, and died 

 while he was being prepared for the Lincoln Royal. 

 Queen of the South, who is po?sibly going to Warwick, 

 is a wonderful grazer, and fine as a racer in the bone ; 

 and 200 gs. was offered for her in vain when four months 

 old. The daughter of Earring, who stands next her, is by 

 Wilkinson's Monarch, and has a heifer calf, Telltale, by 

 Windsor Si>cond. Monarch made her somewhat harsher 

 in the hair than her dam, but her calf gets the quality 

 back. Passing by Mayflower, a very nice cow of Lax's 

 Magician tribe, we come to Coquette and Rosa Bon- 

 heur, both by Towneley's Horatio and the first purchases 

 for the ne:v herd. Rosa's quarters are not so good as 

 Mayflower's; but we may seek in vain for other faults, 

 and she his the honour of being the dam of Cock-o'-the- 

 Walk, the first calf that was ever dropped to Great 

 Mogul. 



Passing into the other yard, we find the Spencer 

 blood well represented in Young Dai-y and Lucy 

 Ilnd. The former, who has a strong touch of the 

 old fashion about her, and a somewhat thick neck, was 

 bought at Mr. Spearman's sale. She is by Lord Spen- 



