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changing her owner she continued until she was sixteen, and 

 from her have heen bred the two Admirals, and lastly the Maid of 

 Masham tribe, bred at Carperby, from the cow of that name, who 

 was from the stock of Mr. Carter, of Sutton. 



The first shorthorn bull purchased by Mr. Willis, was 

 Wilbeiforce 9830, bred by the late Mr. Samuel Wiley of Bransby, 

 from the same dam as his Lady Chandos, the gold medal cow at 

 Smithfield,hewas principally of Mason blood and proved a most useful 

 sire, his stock being excellent milkers. His successors were the 

 celebrated Frederick and Gripsy King 11532, both from Townley, 

 the former on hire for a short period, and the latter a purchase, was 

 afterwards exchanged with Col. Townley for G-avazzi 11508, bred by 

 Mr. S. E. Bolden, of Hyning, a son of Leonidas and from a cow by 

 Benedict, two bulls bred by Mr. Rd. Booth, since that time male 

 animals either pure Booth or inheriting largely of that blood have 

 been used in the following order : in 1858 King Alfred 16334, a 

 son of Crown Prince, and Venus Victrix, was hired from Warlaby, 

 and the year following his half-brother Lord of the Valley succeeded 

 him, and First Fruits, Fitz Clarence (a son of the Crown Prince 

 cow Nectarine Blossom), and Sir Colin of the Isabella tribe with a 

 double cross of Crown Prince, also were all hired from Mr. Booth. 

 Lord Frederick a home-bred bull by Lord of the Valley and 

 Fanny's daughter Cottage Girl by Frederick, did good service in 

 the herd until Windsor Fitz Windsor was purchased as a calf from 

 Mr. W. Carr, a wonderfully impressive sire that may almost be 

 said to have been the making of the Carperby herd, the new 

 purchase was not less full of Crown Prince's blood than the bulls 

 hired direct from Mr. Booth, as his sire, Imperial Windsor, and 

 dam, Windsor's Queen, were both by Windsor Crown Prince's 

 son again more of this celebrated bull's blood was introduced by 

 hiring Windsor's Prince, bred at Stackhouse out of Windsor's 

 Queen, from Mr. T. Lace in 1871, and used to the Windsor Fitz 

 Windsor heifers, after the hiring of K. C. B. from Killerby several 

 home-bred bulls have been tried, but Warlaby has again been 



