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ber was a nice young bull, King of the Eoses from 

 Adforton, his dam Eoseleaf being a daughter of 

 Eosebud, the Liverpool and Birmingham Eoyal win- 

 ner. 



In the cow class Lady Blanche had first prize. 

 She had been second to Helena at the Eoyal and the 

 Bath and West of England, and was a daughter of 

 Von Moltke, a Cardiff winner in 1872, which she 

 resembled, being very big and wide in front but 

 not square and good enough behind. The second 

 prize went to the Earl of Coventry's Giantess, bred 

 at Adforton. She had stood third to Eosebud and 

 Helena at Liverpool, and was quite a contrast to the 

 first prize cow here, being very big, as her name 

 implied, and square and good in her quarters. 

 While she lacked the flesh of the winner, the latter 

 had too much of it for a breeding cow. Her sire, 

 Sir Eoger (4133) and her grandsire, Battenhall, 

 were both sons of Sir Thomas, but the inbreeding 

 certainly did not interfere with her growth nor her 

 constitution. She looked the typical breeder which 

 she later on proved to be. Her calf then, a daugh- 

 ter, Golden Treasure, and her next calf, Good Boy, 

 each scored three first prize Eoyal wins and she 

 herself with two offspring won first prize at the 

 York Eoyal. 



In the class for heifers above two and not ex- 

 ceeding three, Mrs. Edwards' marvelously good 

 heifers Leonora and Beatrice gained first and sec- 

 ond prizes. There was now no question as to which 

 was the better of the two, for Leonora had developed 



