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bulls that he hired out at different times to a great 

 many Hereford breeders. They combined great 

 scale with hardy constitutions, and were all bred 

 by himself. He always said that they descended 

 from four or five cows of their own ' * breed, ' ' whose 

 pedigrees went back to the early part of the last 

 century. 



The prize cow at Lewes was Lord Berwick's Grey 

 Daisy, a daughter of Tom Thumb, a grey bull, the 

 cow and her sire's "breed" going back to the herd 

 of Knight of Downton Castle and the Salwey grey 

 blood, which, however, in a few years Lord Berwick, 

 finding public opinion against it, weeded out. He 

 was very fortunate at Lewes, as he had been at 

 Windsor; besides winning with his cow he had a 

 prize for his two-year bull and first and second 

 prizes for his two in-calf three-year-old heifers. 

 Mr. Philip Turner was second to Grey Daisy in 

 the cow class, so that the grey must have been a 

 very good one, or else the judges at that time were 

 not particular as to color. 



At Gloucester in 1853 Lord Berwick won first 

 with aged bull, this time with Albert Edward (859), 

 a son of Wonder (420), dam Victoria, the first prize 

 Royal winner at Southampton and Shrewsbury. 

 Lord Berwick had bought her from Carpenter at 

 the Shrewsbury meeting, and well she had repaid 

 him, for besides dropping this Royal winner she 

 added six more live calves to the Cronkhill herd. 

 Carwardine of Stocktonbury won second here with 

 Malcolm, bred by Turner of The Noke. In the year- 



