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liiain-' some of the best of the Booth families (such as the 

 Strawberry and Halnaby— the Faith, Hope, and Charity— 

 and the Bracelet tribes), enough lias been said to assure 

 your readers that Mr. Carr possessed himself of a valuable 

 animal for breeding pm-poses when he purchased Lady 

 KUlerby. 



Everilda, a white two-year-old by Baron Warlaby, \5ith 

 three crosses beyond — Highflyer, Hamlet, and Eoland — is 

 an exceedingly stylish heifer, and fuUy coniirmsihe pro- 

 mishig appearance she presented when a yearling. She 

 bears a striking resemblance to her sire ; and, like her 

 sire is less excellent in her flank than might be desired. 



Calendula, a two-year-old by Majestic (13279), Hamlet, 

 Leonard, Buckingham, itc, &c., is a good roan heifer, 

 square, short in the leg, bulky, and well haired. She has 

 recently dropped a white heifer calf with roan ears— Maid 

 of Windsor — to Windsor, Calendula is out of Calomel, 

 bought by Mr. Carr, together witli a bull calf at her side, 

 for 150 guineas, of the late Mr. Booth of Killerby. Calomel 

 has been an admirable breeder. Mr. Carr sold an uncom- 

 monly fine bull-calf out of her, four months old — her last 

 calf— for 80 guineas, a few months ago. He was by 

 Windsor. 



Bella Donna, twin with Prima Donna (sold under a year 

 old for 170 guineas, and exported to Australia), is a good 

 young animal. Her dam, Violet, is a very superior cow 

 indeed, and was sold a short time since to Lady Pigot for 

 200 guineas ; and if Bella Donna should turn out as good 

 a beast as her mother, she wiU do. What she wants most 

 is, general style ; but she is a thorough Shorthorn, and a 

 Shorthorn of a prizeable sort — thick, compact, fleshy ; a 

 good thriver and a good weigher. She has bred a capital 

 rdilTi bull-calf, Don Windsor, to Windsor. Indeed, this 

 calf should he a, gooA one, showing as it does in its pedi- 

 gree Windsor, Majestic, Lord George, Vanguard, Hamlet, 

 Sir Eoger, and Stadley Royal. He will prove himself pe- 

 culiarly useful in a herd which wants flesh and siibslanee. 



I close my notices of the females in the Stackhouse 

 herd with that of Annabel, a three-year-old white heifer by 

 King Arthur, out of Queen Charlotte, once as lovely a 

 Shorthorn as ever walked, now a gi-and old cow, and the 

 property of the Eev. Mr. Storer of HeUidon. Queen 

 Charlotte is full of Bracelet blood. Her sire, grandsire, 

 and great-gi'andsire, wei'e all sons of that celebrated 

 animal; and the result of a careful analysis of her pedi- 

 gree shows that in point of fact she has in her, minus 

 one-sixteenth, as much of Bracelet's blood as if she was 

 Bracelet's own daughter. Annabel is by King Arthur, a 

 son of Venus Victrix by Vanguard, and she wears an un- 

 mistakeable Vanguard head. Though not strictly a haiuJ' 

 name heifer, she is a very valuable one, as well by reason 

 of her personal properties as on account of her illustrious 

 blood. Her frame is large and finely moulded, and she 

 carries a heavy weight of good flesh. Her shoulders, at 

 one time not particularly attractive, are now more than 

 ordinarily sweet ; and in this respect she affords both a 

 warning and an encouragement to breeders of Shorthorn 

 stock, who are sometimes apt to draw conclusions unfa- 

 vourable to an animal, in consequence of inaccurate ap- 

 pearances which a few months may correct. Annabel is 

 in calf to Elfin King. 



Mr. Carr has five young bulls, all of them by Windsor, 

 and none of them unworthy of their sire. The best, in 

 my opinion, is Imperial Windsor, out of Farewell by 

 Royal Buck. This young animal, calved early in April 

 oilers to make a large beast, but is neatly formed and 

 most compactly put together. His hair is long, thickly 



massed, fine in the quality of its touch, and of the grand- 

 est roan imaginable. His crops arc very wide and fully 

 developed, reaching well down and backward. His girth 

 is ample, both immediately behind the arm and across the 

 loins, whicli are actually lineable with his hips ; and his 

 flank, parallel with the profile of his back, hangs down a 

 weighty substance extending nearly half way under his 

 belly. Imperial Windsor, whom Mr. Carr has more than 

 once declined to i^art with, is destined, I doubt not, to be 

 the sire of first-rate animals. His mother is just the sort 

 of cow to breed a bull from — not too large, and particularly 

 feminine. 



But some persons have preferred Royal Windsor, a 

 splendidly bred white bull, calved in January, and out of 

 Queen Charlotte, the dam of Annabel. And indeed Royal 

 Windsor is a noble bull. His hair, not quite so abundant 

 as that of Imperial Windsor, is sufliciently plentiful, very 

 fine in texture, and of a rich yellow hue. He is remarkable 

 for a much more arched and thickly developed crest than 

 bulls inheriting chiefly Warlaby blood are in general found 

 to possess ; and has a pair of eyes which, though unusually 

 prominent, are happily without the unmeaning stare which 

 prominent bulls' eyes too often exhibit. The countenance 

 of Royal Windsor is truly masculine, combining, as mascu- 

 line expression most assiu-edly should combine, whether 

 in man or beast, gentleness with majesty. 



Fitz- Windsor, white, by Windsor, out of Lady Hessel- 

 tine, a daughter of old Calomel, is also a very good bull, 

 very well haired, with a profile remarkably like that of his 

 su-e. Fitz- Windsor will be a valuable bull for a herd that 

 wants size and liair. He has a weighty flank. 



Tlie only buU that remains to be noticed is Young 

 Windsor, a rich roan, by Windsor, out of a Royal Buck 

 dam. He inherits the blood of Windsor, Royal Buck, 

 Leonard, Roland, and Priam (sire of the celebrated twin 

 cows, Necklace and Bracelet), and has highly meritorious 

 points. His mother, whom Mr. Carr parted with some 

 time since, was a neat cow, possessing great mill^ing 

 powers. 



The reader may have observed, that in speaking of the 

 Stackhouse Herd I have abstained from using, in its 

 popular signification, a word which occurs with frequent 

 repetition in most notices of Shorthoni stocks. I mean 

 the word quality. And I have refrained from this word, 

 not because I don't know the meaning assigned to it by the 

 generality of those who adopt jt, nor becaiise it would not 

 be applicable in its popular sense (for it would) to Mr. 

 Carr's herd, but because I think the almost exclusive 

 restriction of the term to the exterior portions of an animal 

 involves a palpable grammatical injustice, and implies an 

 undue preference of one excellency over a great number of 

 others. Quality is a noun of general signification, and is 

 equally applicable to an indefinite variety of most opposite 

 particulars. It is, I think therefore, not wise to confine it 

 to one object, and to that one object entirely in connection 

 with the sense of touch. 



But, for the occasion, and regarding the word in its 

 popularly accepted meaning, it might be at least inter- 

 esting to inquire into some of the stereotyped credenda of 

 the day, with a view to ascertain whetlier or not they owe 

 their establishment to the truth on which they rest, I 

 liear " quality" spoken of as a pleasing .and infallible cri- 

 terion of propensity to fatten and to lay on the best of flesh 

 quickly ; and I am told that whatever Booth aninuds may 

 be in other respects, they are not worthy to be compared 

 with animals of the Bates sort in rcsp((.-t of quality. If this 



