FAEMEK'S MAGAZINE. 



MARCH, 18G1 



PLATE I. 

 A KERRY BULL, 



RECENTLY KXPORTED TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 



Tins bull was exported immediately after the 

 Dublin Spring Show of last year (where he was 

 highly commended), by Captain Bayley, who is, 

 we believe, himself a breeder of Kerry cattle : 

 while his cousin at the Cape, farms and breeds 

 extensively from English stock. So far, however, 

 Mr. Bayley has been more directly engaged in im- 

 proving the native horses — an important branch of 

 a Cape farmer's business ; and he has had out 

 amongst others, Evenus, a thorough-bred stallion 

 of some repute, once the property of Lord Sfcrad- 

 broke, and a winner of the Cambridgeshire; 

 Tally-ho ! Farmer's Son, and twenty or thirty 

 other good stallions. 



In Ireland, the Kerrys are coming to be regarded 

 as rather " fancy" stock, from which point of view 

 they are much to be commended. They are very 

 handsome, or rather pretty, are well shaped, and 

 the cows have good bags with rich milk, especially 



adaptable for butter making. We fear, though, 

 the breed is not kept up with much care, as the 

 show of them of late years has been very unequal — 

 a few good-looking animals like the bull in the 

 plate, with often a very ragged lot behind the prize 

 winners. But a Kerry has the repute of being able 

 to "live on anything/' an excellence occasionally 

 put to the test ; and at Cork, last summer, we were 

 assured some of them were getting fat on the week's 

 better rations they got in the show week. With a 

 little more size, the Kerry, both for quality and 

 dairy purposes, has still his uses, and perhaps at 

 the Cape Mr. Bayley may be able to grow him, or 

 cross him into something a little bigger. 



This bull was bred by Mr. Ralph Cusack, and 

 Captain Bayley sent out with him a yearling from 

 his own herd. They were shipped as usual by Mr. 

 Weekes, of Pimlico ; and it was on their way 

 through that Mr. Corbet got his " sitting." 



PLATE II. 

 BUTTERFLY; A Thorough-bred Filly. 



THE PROPERTY OF MESSRS. EASTWOOD AND CULSHAW, 



Butterfly, bred by Mr. W. Sharpe in 1 856, is by 

 Turnus, out of Catherine, by Don John, her dam 

 Arachne, by Filho da Puta. 



Turnus, bred by Count Hahn in Germany in 

 1846, is by Taurus, out of Clarissa, by Defence. 

 He, however, distinguised himself as a race-horse 

 in this country, especially at Goodwood as a four- 

 year-old, when.heVon^both the Stewards' and the 

 Chesterfield Cups against large fields. He was 

 not;allowedJ to* return to the Continent, but was 

 purchased by Mr. Sharpe, and stood at Knockhill 

 in 1853. ^He continued to cover there for some 

 seasons, but for the last two or three was atWink- 

 OLD SERIES.] 



field in Berkshire; and is now at Castle Hill 

 Farm, near Egham. Turnus' stock came out in 

 1856, and he is the sire of Bonnie Doon, Gitana, 

 Hamlet, Knockburn, Maggie Lauder, Mauchline, 

 Potboy, Trip-the-Daisy, Captain Wedderburn, 

 Ochiltree, and Butterfly. Of these, Hamlet, and 

 Captain Wedderburn and Trip-the-Daisy (an own 

 brother and sister to Butterfly), have been pretty 

 fair performers ; but there is nothing amongst them 

 to rank with the Oaks winner herself. 



Catherine, bred by Lord Chesterfield in 1844, 

 was nothing but a plater, and his Lordship soon 

 found out all she was worth in this way. She went 

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