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ture, in the great States Cattle Shows. They have spread 

 so rapidly there, and so many entries have come in 

 for the Herd Book, which was comnaenced by Captain 

 Tanner Davy in 1851, that the three volumes have been 

 reprinted on the other side of the Atlantic ; and France 

 and Australia also contribute to it. All the breeders 

 find them especially calculated to brave cold, and thrive 

 on scanty pasture. The numbers exhibited both at the 

 Royal and Smithfield are annually on the increase ; and 

 last Christmas tide, the Shorthorns were only in a ma- 

 jority of five over " the juicy red line." 



Their lack of size by the side of the shorthorn and 

 Hereford, has created a prejudice against them, which 

 their hardy qualities and their cream and beef talents 

 have not enabled them to overcome. North of the Trent 

 the Durham holds its own, and the Hereford is the 

 favourite " beef machine" of the Midland Counties. 

 Earl Beauchamp has, however, stood fast by them in 

 Worcestershire ; and Earl Aylesford, Mr. Stubbs (of 

 Perry Bar), and Messrs. Abraham and Samuel Umbers 

 have divided their Warwickshire favours between them 

 and the Durhams or old Warwickshire longhorns. Mr. 

 Samuel Umbers took his bull Birmingham to Chester, 

 and won the first prize in the senior class, with The 

 Zouave next him. Gloucestershire has sent in its ad- 

 herence to them through Mr. G. Talbot, of Temple 

 Guiting ; and Shropshire, through the Childes of Kin- 

 let; and Sir Thomas Boughey, who bought and worked 

 Turner's Duke of York (37), bred by James Quartly, 

 and the first prize Royal winner at York and Exeter, 

 Norfolk's luck among the prize ribbons has been in 

 proportion to its early but limited allegiance to them. 

 Mr. Blomefield stood next to Mr. Hammond for the 

 yearling heifer prize, and won a cow prize as well (with 

 one of James Quartly's breeding), when the Royal Agri- 

 cultural met at Norwich; and the present Earl Leicester 

 gained both a bull and cow prize there. Lewes also 

 brought fresh successes to his lordship's herd, and 

 his Holkham-bred steers and those fed by Mr. Heath 

 and purchased from Quartly and Fassmore have bravely 

 held their own at Smithfield. Prince of Wales (105) 

 was the Holkham patriarch for some time, and 

 Quartly's celebrated Napoleon (259) is now there, 

 after spending seven seasons in North Devon. Young 

 Sultan, from Mr. Tapp of Twitchen, went to the 

 the Hon. Mr. Dudley Pelham's, in the Isle of Wight, 

 which has furnished a strenuous breeder from Davy and 

 Merson's blood in Mr. T. V/ilkinson of Chauton 

 Cowes. II.R.H. Prince Albert is alone among the 

 men of Berks, and made no entries till the third volume 

 of the Herd Book in '59 ; but his first with Prince 

 Arthur at the Royal, and his subsequent victories 

 in the same " tented field" with The Zouave, from 

 Barton, and his constant successes at Smithfield and 

 Bingley Hall, have placed the Devon blood at no dis- 

 count by the side of its two rivals in the Windsor 

 Pastures. Each Christmas brings out the strength of Mr. 

 Farquharson's hand; but his winners have been Quartly 

 bred; while Messrs. Pope, of Great Toller, Maiden 

 Newton (the owners of Maiden and Lovely), and Miller 

 of Sherborne, do battle for Dorsetshire at The Royal. 



Mr. Warren of Child Okeford, near Blandford, is also 

 another of its principal breeders, and Lord Portman 

 secured the blood of the renowned old Hundred Guinea 

 (5G), for the county, through his son Champion. 



It was Hundred Guinea who first added deep flesh, 

 symmetry, and quality to the Somersetshire size ; and 

 for years after, his steers could be picked out from the 

 ruck at Taunton, Willington, and Bridgewater fairs. 

 Messrs Bond & Co., of Kingston, bought him from Mr. 

 John Quartly, and along with Messrs. Farthing, Four- 

 acre, and Gibbs, showed his stock with no small result. 

 Lord Bridport aud Mr. C. Boucher are also high up as 

 Somersetshire breeders ; but none have gone into it so 

 resolutely as Mr. Hole, of Knowle House, near Dun- 

 ster. He breeds back to Hundred Guinea (56) ; and 

 Champion (17), Baronet (G), Prince of Wales (105), 

 Earl of Exeter (38), Marquis of Salisbury (455), and 

 a whole line of Quarily-bred Royal prize bulls have 

 passed through his stalls. Champion (17), and the 

 Cardinal (16), of his own breeding, got firsts at the 

 Royal, and so did Queen-of-thc-West (304) and Mrs. 

 York (300), while Fair Maid of Somerset (695) and 

 Belle of the West (529) helped to sweep away silver cups 

 at Taunton, or earn cheques from the secretary of the 

 Bath and West of England. Mr. Nurcomb, of Hope- 

 cott Farm, near Knowle, breeds from that herd, and has 

 principally used the Cardinal. 



Mr. Tremayne, of Heligan, was one of the earliest 

 breeders of Devons in Cornwall, and stuck close to the 

 Davy, Moggridge, and Quartly blood ; but Mr. Anstey, 

 who was his agent, and began on his own hook some 

 fifteen years ago, at Menabilly farm, near Fowey, goes 

 for Quartly alone, and has bred latterly from Baronet 

 (G), Earl of Exeter (38), and Napoleon (259) bulls. 

 Mr. James Tremayne, of Newlyn, is also making great 

 efforts; and Lord Falmouth, who was entered at Mr. 

 Tremayne's sale, strengthened his herd not a little last 

 September, by buying ISIr. John Quartly's Duke of Ches- 

 ter (404), as well as some cows and heifers both from that 

 herd, Mr. Turner's, and Mr. Robert Smith of Exmoor. 

 Mr. Palmer, of Stoke Climsland and his brother have 

 sealed their Royal Cornwall and Liskeard first-class suc- 

 cesses, by their pilgrimage to Canterbury ; but so far 

 Mr. Sobey's success has been confined to the county, 

 which is very loyal in its allegiance to the breed. 



North Devon, which is very bleak, and fully three 

 weeks behind the South, monopolizes nearly all the 

 crack herds to itself ; and it is only by attentive breed- 

 ing and purchasing many of their best things to train, 

 that Mr. Turner has been enabled to stand up almost 

 single-handed for the honour of the Exeter district. 

 Among the leading men of the North, we have Mr, 

 Passmore of Bishop's Nympton, who was second with 

 ActEcon (1) at the Exeter Royal, and a few years ago 

 placed the future Smithfield gold medallist in the ox and 

 steer class, in the hands of that celebrated feeder, Mr. 

 Heath, of Norfolk. Mr. Tapp of Twitching, bred 

 Young Sillivant (121), a double first in Devonshire, 

 and sold him to the late Mr. R. Merson. His sire Sil- 

 livant (1"20), from a daughter of Forester (46), was bred 

 by Mr. Francis Quartly, and derived bis name from the 



