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winners by the present writer who bred them for a 

 number of years for the late Baroness Burdett-Coutts, 

 who was then starting her subsequently famous herd. 

 From 1878 to 1880 Dr. Crisp himself exhibited and won 

 at the Dairy Show first prize, as well as an extra milking 

 prize of ^5, with a goat which was described (as I find 

 on referring to my report in The Bazaar of that time) 

 as " a nearly perfect specimen of the Nubian breed, tall in 

 the extreme, with long legs, Roman nose, very close coat, 

 and long pendulous ears." 



Dr. Crisp dropped out of goat-breeding after this 

 and died a year or so later, but the Anglo-Nubian 

 was for many years after bred successfully by Mr. W. 

 Freeman and his man Mr. Dormer, both of whom won 

 many prizes with them. In 1880 Mr. B. Ravenscroft, of 

 St. Albans, took up this variety, which he has bred con- 

 sistently ever since, and he now owns by far the largest 

 herd in England, having won numerous prizes. Some few 

 years later this breed came into the hands of Mr. C. L. 

 Jackson, of Bolton, who figured largely as a prize-winner 

 at all the Midland shows of those days, as well as sub- 

 sequently at those in the South, until he disposed of his 

 complete herd to Sir Humphrey de Trafford in 1895 for 

 several hundred pounds. 



Mr. Sam Woodiwiss was the next to come on the 

 scene, and at the nick of time to revive the Eastern 

 characteristics, which had begun to wane for want of 

 fresh foreign blood, there being by this time more 

 " Anglo " than " Nubian "about the breed. On the first 

 opportunity this enterprising breeder, of bulldog fame, ob- 

 tained through Mr. Jamrach, the well-known importer, 

 that so-called "Nubian" (it was really a Jumna Pari 

 Goat. See "Indian Goats") Sedgemere Chancellor, 

 illustrated on page 158. There was at once a rush by 

 goat-breeders for this new blood, and its etfect was quickly 



