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along with Legacy by The Pacha, whose Balmoral 

 bull calf Inheritor (13065) " laid me in well." 

 What with him, Seafield (9616) by Duplicate Duke 

 (6952), and Earl of Aberdeen (12800) from Hay's of 

 Shethin, bull medals began to come in fast at 

 Rettie and there are now six or seven in array on the 

 table. 



Imperial Rome (16292) by Lord Raglan from 

 Imperial Cherry was bought from Mr. Douglas as a 

 calf, and begot Viceroy (19054), another of the 

 medallists. Benedict Balco (14159), who was then 

 out at hire, was included in this 280- guinea purchase 

 from Athelstaneford ; but he " brought the pleura 

 with him as a compliment" from the train, and it 

 swept down nearly .3,000 worth of stock at a blow. 

 The two bulls weathered it out, and eventually left a 

 large number of heifers behind, which have been 

 crossed with Sir Charles the Second from Erminstade, 

 an 101-guinea selection at the second Babraham 



We took a great fancy to a red bullock with a 

 regular Rose of Summer horn, by Imperial Rome 

 from a polled heifer, and but for Mr. Martin's roan 

 stopping the way it would have been first in the 

 cross-bred class at both the great English Fat 

 Shows last Christmas. Tiptree, one of the many 

 bull-calves which Mr. Longmore has sold to Aus- 

 tralia, was the sire of a rare heifer of the same 

 cross which was first in her class at Birmingham 

 and London in '60. The herd ^contains about forty 



