THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



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the spriug of the ribs, straight as a straiglit stick ; the body 

 presenting in profile a perfect parallelogram. Mr. Carr 

 refused for this calf, when not more tlian a month old, 

 two-hundred-aud-fift}- guineas : for Lady of tlie Valley he 

 declined an ofier of four hundred guineas at the same time; 

 and for Wide Awake, since the birth of Windsor's Queen, 

 a similar sum of money; no less than 1,050 guineas for 

 three animals. These were hona fide ofters " without 

 reseiTe." 



I have mentioned with some particularity three of the 

 Bonnet tribe. There is one other, Lady Windsor, a white 

 heifer calved in April. Lady Windsor, by Windsor, is, as I 

 stated before, out of Lady Grandison, a daughter of Wide 

 Awake by Gainford .Oth, and now the property of Lady 

 Pigot, who bought her in September for 250 guineas. 

 Lady Grandison is a very excellent cow, and a very true 

 breeder. Mr. Wood of Castle Grove gave Mr. Carr eighty 

 guineas for her first calf. Lady Buckingham, by Duke of 

 Buckingham (1412*^) ; but was so unfortunate as to lose it 

 when only four months old, having taken it from Stack- 

 house at the age of ten weeks. Lady Windsor is as good 

 a calf as need be desired. Her crops are very surprisingly 

 developed; her shoulders beautifully laid back ; her hind- 

 quarters long and level, and well packed with flesh ; twist 

 " wealthy ;" hair fine as well as abundant ; and her brisket 

 pi'ojecting forward so as to bring the point actually even 

 with the bend of the throat, from which the neck and 

 region of the bosom descend in almost a perpendicular 

 line. She is a superb heifer. 



Rose of Windsor, a calf about the same age as Lady 

 Windsor, and by the same renowned sire, occupies a loose 

 box near her half-sister, and invariably attracts the imme- 

 diate attention of the visitor to the Stackhouse herd. Her 

 colour justifies this, even if she had no merit beyond; for 

 it is the richest possible roan, very much like that of 

 Windsor's dam, the Royal prize cgw Plum Blossom. But 

 she has merit beyond, and merit somewhat equal to the 

 beauty of her well-haired and blooming coat. At present 

 she not only doesn't show a single faulty point, but looks 

 as if she would go on without exhibiting one. As she will 

 probably be " brought out" at the Leeds Royal, your readers 

 may have an opportunity of forming a judgment for them- 

 selves. She is out of a Baron Warlaby heifer, JMistress 

 Mary, bought by Mr. Carr, at an early age, from the late 

 Mr. John Booth of Killerby, and combines the famous 

 blood of Windsor, Baron Warlaby, Royal Buck, Hopewell, 

 and Hamlet. If your readers will take the trouble just to 

 go carefully through the pedigrees of these bulls in the 

 Herd Book, they will rise from the investigation perfectly 

 astonished at the superb combination of distinguished 

 families in this young heifer. Lady Pigot now possessess 

 IMistress Mary, having given Jlr. Carr 170 guineas for her 

 a few months ago ; and if she breeds at Branches Park as 

 well as she has done at Stackhouse, her present owner will 

 have reason to call her bargain a very good one. I know 

 that ]\Ir. CaiT received for Rose of W'iudsor, when only ten 

 weeks old, a cheque fur j£"2I0, and returned the tempting 

 bait by the next post. 



Bridesmaid (red), Rosoy (dark roan), and Familiar 

 (white), are by Master Belleville, a son of the Royal prize 

 bull Belleville, out of a pure Booth dam, and are descended 

 from Mr. Maynfird's excellent cow Rosamond by Jack Tar 

 (1133). They may be said to be, with the slight exception 

 of Master Belleville, pure Booth animals. Bridesmaid is 

 as handsome a cow as a man need wish to have on his 

 premises, and possesses every desirable quality of a high- 

 lired shorthorn. Very short in the leg, yei-y thick bodied, 



^ery full of flesh and hair, very flexible in the hide, with a 

 glorious outspread back as broad in one part as in another ; 

 a lovely knowing little head, and a pair of genuine horns 

 about which there can be no mistake; and inheriting, be- 

 sides all these visible properties, the inestimable virtue of 

 fine old blood, it is no great wonder that Bridesmaid 

 should have been the dam of Mr. Ambler's prize heifer 

 Bridal Flower, which that gentleman bought when a calf 

 at Stackhouse, and sold afterwards for a large sum of 

 money to go into Australia. Mv. Carr has, unfortunately, 

 lost two heifer calves out of Bridesmaid — one by Majestic, 

 the other by Lord of the Valley. 



Rosey is a lovely cow, but not in my opinion equal to 

 Bridesmaid. She is the dam of Windsor Lily, calved in 

 Fcbruaiy, 18G0, which will make, unless all present pro- 

 mises and appearances aro falsified, a cow of first-rate 

 stamp. 



Familiar, the last of the three I have classed together, 

 is a large roomy cow with good general shapes, a fine head, 

 unexceptionable horns, well formed and massive bosom, a 

 magnificent udder, and plenty of flesh for a hard-milking 

 animal. Cows of this stamp are not to be met with every 

 day, though Mr. Cai-r has been particularly fortunate in 

 securing a herd which yields far more than an average 

 quantity of milk. 



The next in chronological order is Barmaid, a heifer 

 which Mr. Carr bought at the Luton sale for 100 gs., and 

 which turned out immediately aftei'wards not to be in calf. 

 She is now breeding to Valasco (15413). Though inclined 

 to be a heavy fleshed animal, and exhibiting most unques- 

 tionably some valuable properties, Barmaid is an un- 

 pleasant looking personage, and presents to the visitor 

 an ungainly head. I think I may say, without any dela- 

 tion from truth, that having seen and admitted her several 

 excellences, the critic has nothing to do but to " look in 

 h«r face, and he'll forget them all." Baroness, the dam of 

 Barmaid, was a fine old cow, by Baron W^arlaby ; and the 

 oflspring of Barmaid, being by Valasco, just the bull to 

 suit her, may inhei'it the virtues of its noble grandam. 

 Barmaid is exceedingly well bred, and shows good breed- 

 ing in many points. 



Lady Killerby, whose bull-calf. Lord of Windsor, was 

 sold to Mr. Wright of Hull, the author of the prize essay 

 on Cattle Feeding, has only one fault, unless the tawny 

 red of the old shorthorns of seventy years ago be considered 

 a fault also. She is rather too small for a three-year-old 

 heifer; and having said this I have nothing more to ad- 

 vance against her. She was brought from Killerby when 

 a calf, was particularly neat and compact when Mr. Carr 

 bought her, and has maintained every promising quality 

 of her early youth. A sweet head, with a gentle feminine 

 expression of eye ; horns drooping gracefully towards the 

 face; a wide weU-fleshed back; shoulders exquisitely 

 framed and symmetrically laid; loins firm, thick, and 

 ample; quarters square, fleshy, long, and even; hide flexi- 

 ble and mellow, with a flank just what a flank should be^ 

 deep, heav}', horizontal, and broad — extending, I mean, 

 well toward the udder; fore-legs standing more apail than 

 I remember ever to have observed in a cow of her size ; 

 and beyond them, projecting well but not unduly, and 

 filling all the space between, a bosom beautifully moulded, 

 sweeping upwards into a round full neck vein, and hiding 

 the shoulder point entirely as it fades away. These are 

 the most evident characteristics of this lovely heifer ; and 

 when to tliese characteristics it is added that she exhibits 

 iu her pedigree, and in the following order, the bulls 

 British Boy, Hopewell, Hamlet, and Leonard, thus com.' 



