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York (36) at York and Exeter, and the Duke of 

 Devon at Gloucester and Paris, were all first-prize 

 bulls ; and the same honour was awarded to The 

 Zouave of his breeding, both at Chelmsford and Carlisle. 

 He considers the Duke of York (37) by James Quart- 

 ly's Prince of Wales (105) to be the best bull he ever 

 had, quite as much for his look and handling as for his 

 being the sire of two of his best cows. Lady (241) and 

 Wallflower (472), the j) rim a donnas of Gloucester and 

 Carlisle. This thirteen-year-old lady claims a direct 

 descent from Hundred Guinea and Forester, and is the 

 dam of the 1860 Bath and West of England first-prize 

 winner Prince Frederick (494) ; while Wallflower's best 

 calf is Yaudine ( 1G99), who has won two firsts and three 

 seconds in her five public trials. Before the sale of the 

 September draft, the herd consisted of about 65 in all, and 

 as the calf accessions have since brought it up to 40, it will 

 jiot shrink from its wonted wager of battle next July. 



A walk of about three miles from Exeter, and for the 

 latter mile or so through a true Devonshire lane, with its 

 high, red gravel banks, on which hazel, elm, and " noxi- 

 ous ivy," all clustered together, brought us to the Barton 

 homestead at last. We had a few minutes with the 

 Chittagongs, an ugly but egg-laying species of Malay 

 fowls, which Mr. Turner has imported, and a few 

 more with the cider-press ; and then we sallied forth 

 to the Beacon Down clover ley, at the highest 

 point of the farm. The majority of the 200 stock ewes 

 were there, with a "dainty quene" in the shape of a four- 

 shear of Burgess, and Dodford blood, and the dam to 

 boot, of a rare shearling by the Carlisle tup, which has 

 left good evidence of his season's sojourn. " A crop 

 above and a crop below" is the rule here, and the two- 

 acre orchard full of red and white " Clusters," almost 

 ripe for the cider-press, gave signs of nearly forty hogs- 

 heads that autumn. The same amount of acreage has 

 been known to produce its eighty hogsheads^ and of re- 

 cent years, 1859 has been the best. There are at least 

 100 different sorts of cider apples. Hang-downs, Bitter- 

 sweets, Ducks'-bills, Queen-apples, Pigs'-noses, and we 

 know not what besides, but Mr. Turner, after trying 

 about forty of them, gives the " Clusters" a most de- 

 cided preference. To the left of this orchard, was the 

 mill meadow ; but the mill has become a myth, and two 

 couple of unyoked oxen, busy with their mid-day bundle 

 of grass, were the only tenants of it. If the objects 

 beneath us were rather tame, we had only to sweep the 

 horizon all round from the north-west, to get an ever- 

 varying panorama of South Devon. A sort of fir glen 

 was the green link between the Whitestone Hills and 

 Cadbury Castle, near which Fairfax encamped his 

 army ; and then nestling as it were beneath the distant 

 range of the Tiverton Hills, stood the fair city of 

 Exeter, which Follett and Philpott have placed " for all 

 time in the mouths of men " who love law and polem- 

 ics. The pleasant valley of the Clywst conjures up 

 much more rural images, both of Lord Poltimore, whose 

 hounds and horn are heard season after season in its 

 covers, and that time-honoured type of an English Baronet 

 Sir Thomas Acland. Sidmouth Gap reveals the secret of 

 the Southern seaboard, as it sweeps away to Exmouth, and 

 then is suddenly lost behind the undulating grounds of 

 Peamore, the seat of Mr. Keckewich, M. P., which make 

 up a richly- wooded fore-ground of beech, oak, and 

 sycamore. Mamhead seems to skirt the Southern coast 

 once more in the distance, and then the bleak, flinty 

 outline of hill with only one feature to break it, 

 in the shape of a grand-stand (which, thanks to Sir 

 Lydston Newman, has been peopled once more after a 

 twenty years' silence), is lost among the stately woods 

 and towers of Haldon, under whose owner. Sir Lawrence 

 Palk, M.P., the farm at Barton is held. 



A riding circmt soon brought us among the herd in 



the Winnard's meadow, where Olga (1524), of Pass- 

 more and Halse blood, was standing under an oak, 

 ruminating, no doubt, on her future Cornwall home. 

 She had been the highest cow lot (53 gs.) at the sale, 

 and Lord Falmouth had also taken Cloth of Gold and 

 Bloomer to bear her company. She was very level 

 and true, and with capital shoulders; but her horn 

 had not that peculiar double twist, which eleven years had 

 conferred on Calistygia (57), by James Quartly's Prince 

 of Wales, and going back to Silivant (120). The latter 

 is the dam of Titania and Om.ar Pasha, which, after 

 winning at Carlisle, crossed the Atlantic, each with 80 

 gs. on their heads, the one to Mr. Faile, of New York, 

 and the other to Mr. Wainwright, who learnt his ex- 

 perience as a Barton pupil, and turns it to good 

 account, in the Hudson-washed "meadows," near 

 Rhinebeck. Piccolomini (1540), by the Paris prize 

 bull Duke of Devon (34) from Mayflower (2S9), 

 a granddaughter of Hundred Guinea, was there, 

 looking none the worse of her recent journey, to 

 take the first cow prize at Cork, and noticeable for her 

 fine length on the top of the quarter. She has been a 

 great bull breeder, and her prize Chester calf went to 

 Australia at the Omer Pasha figure. There too was old 

 Bountiful (545), of Mr. John Halse's breeding, hob- 

 nobbing with Stella, a daughter of The Zouave (556), and 

 ClaraNovello (1217), with two crosses of Earl of Exeter 

 (38). Beeswing (1174), a two-year-old heifer, by Na- 

 poleon (257) from Olga, and the triple winner at Dor- 

 chester, Canterbury, and Cork, was lowing her salute 

 from the opposite side of the hedge, where we found 

 her with Zelica. Her head was hardly so sweet as some 

 we had seen, but her flank, twist, and loin were espe- 

 cially good, and her wide walk behind lent her a most 

 independent style as she moved. Zelica has a more lively 

 style of head, but the white, which according to Devon- 

 shire canons of taste, is only allowable on the udder, 

 makes her rather " sparky" beneath, and she is a trifle 

 dipped in the loins. Before going back to the home- 

 stead, we climbed the meadow hill, and got among the 

 sheep once more,to wit, three shearling tups, by one of 

 Mr. Sanday's from Burfress's theaves, and a Holme 

 Pierrepont three-shear from a Buckley ewe, with a most 

 remarkable scrag and wool. Mr. Borton got him in 

 1859 by a 62-guinea bid, and Mr. Turner carried his 

 point for 30 gs. in '60. 



The house, with its white walls, and its sloping thatch 

 roof, wears an ancestral grange aspect, quite in keeping 

 with the primitive farm-yard. Sbippons have im- 

 proved so much, both externally and internally, with 

 the times, that one hardly expects to see a great prize 

 animal manufactory, with mud and rough-cast walls, and 

 thatch, which has long since merged the yellow in tho 

 green. Such, however, we found it ; but warmth is got, 

 and " training" and calf-breeding prosper merrily toge- 

 ther. Even the horns of a " bullock" (everything is " a 

 bullock" here) had usurped the place of honour over the 

 stable-door, and Honeysuckle (1404) by The Zouave, 

 and inheriting his grand back and loins, was drawn up 

 on parade in front of it. Then came Vaudine (1C99), 

 with the most lovely of fore-quarters, and as true as a die 

 throughout, with the exception of a slight droop about 

 the rump, the most trying point that Devon breeders 

 have to contend with. Brilliant (1194), another daugh- 

 ter of The Zouave, was not long in satisfying us as to 

 her splendid breast and forequarter; and anon bull 

 after bull of all ages seemed to issue from cunning 

 nooks. The two-year-old Prince Frederick (494) 

 by Australian (365), with his beautiful curly coat 

 and level frame, and well-ribbed loin, came first. His 

 head has none of the Roman character of his grandsire 

 Napoleon's, but is rather dished, with a most expressive 

 and prominent muzzle. In this point bis son Great 



