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friend Captain Booth's The Beau, and others, 

 won a fair share of hunters' races in the north. 



Mr, Hutchinson, unhke his neighbour, paid 

 great attention to the registration of his stock ; 

 and being an equally good judge of his animal, 

 the result is that he owns a herd of cattle and 

 flocks of sheep, which it is not too much to say, 

 are second to none in the kinofdom. 



Immediately it became known that he had 

 entered his farm for the prizes offered by the 

 Koyal Agricultural Society in 1883, he became a 

 warm favourite, and although several capital 

 farmers were his competitors, the energetic 

 management Avhich for so many years had been 

 prevalent at Manor House ; the plucky but 

 judicious outlay of capital in improvements, and 

 particularly the exceptional excellence of his 

 stock, gave him a pretty easy, and certainly a 

 very popular victory. . 



Mr. Hutchinson's shorthorns are princijDally of 

 the Booth blood, and it will be remembered that 

 some of them were the subject of a lengthy and 

 somewhat bitter correspondence in one of the 

 leading Live Stock Newspapers a few years 

 ago. 



Lady Pamela, the cow about which this cor- 

 respondence took place, has had the most success- 

 ful showyard career of any shorthorn up to the 

 present time. She has won in her class four years 

 at the Ivoyal, and was the Champion Female in 



