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shoulders, and weighed 7ojlb. All these were Anglo- 

 Nubians. 



Coming now to half-bred Toggenburgs, Bridie, a she- 

 kid then in my stable, out of Daffy by Sedgemere Paris, 

 weighed at one week old i4lb., at two weeks lylb., 

 three weeks 2olb., four weeks 24lb., five weeks 27lb., six 

 weeks 3olb., and so on at the rate of from 3lb. to 3 Jib. 

 a week for some weeks after. 



ig. 31. Bricket Llewellyn (H.B. isi7\ three-quarter-bred Nubian 

 male, at seven months old. Third prize Tunbridge Wells, 1908. 



Of male kids I find the following recorded. Batten- 

 berg, a first-prize winner as a kid, at five and three- 

 quarter months weighed 59lb. ; and McNab, at 

 seven and three-quarter months, 74-lb. Hornblende, a 

 first-prize winner as a kid, weighed 83lb. at eight and 

 three-quarter months, and its fellow Midnight, a 

 second-prize winner, at about the same age, 661b. More 

 .recently Mr. Sam Woodiwiss's Sedgemere Sergius at seven 

 months weighed 69^3., and at nine months Sylb. Peter 

 Pan, a second-prize Anglo-Nubian kid, at three and three- 

 quarter months was 2yin. in height, 3iin. in girth under 



