14 SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 



resorted to during the last two years and Eastern Emperor, King 

 Otho, Prince Albert Victor, and Lord Protector have all been hired. 

 Vice Admiral at present the head of the herd retains that great 

 evenness of flesh and trueness of form which carried him so 

 victorious thro' his distinguished show yard career, in 1881 the last 

 year he was shown before being taken into the herd as stud bull he 

 was exhibited seven times at the leading shows in the kingdom 

 when seven first and the same number of champion prizes were 

 awarded him, since then he has been used conjointly with home 

 sires and more recently the Warlaby bulls above mentioned. 

 Vanderbilt, a grand roan seven months old, son of Eastern Emperor 

 and Ruby Eose is coming on for next season's use. The most 

 numerous are the Eose family which muster strongly, Diamond 

 Necklace the only cow left in the herd by Mr. Bruere's Vesper bull 

 Booth's Royal Seal being the matron of a tribe over twenty in 

 number. Eose of Summer and Eose of Spring two good looking 

 own sisters are by Major Windsor from Eose Clarence, a cow that 

 had 16 calves at single births, the last being born when approaching 

 her 19th year, which was afterwards sold to Messrs. Torrome, 

 Son & Co., for exportation at a good figure. Euby Eose, a red 

 and white by Abbot of Windsor 32903 is a grand-daughter of Eose 

 of Lucknow, the Gold Medal cow at Birmingham in 1868, and as 

 she is the dam of the future head of the herd we will quote her 

 description from a well known writer's report twelve months 

 previous in which he says : " Just the cow to breed a bull having 

 all the more massive properties of the beef making short-horn with 

 feminine refinement." Her daughter Eose of the Hour, by Wind- 

 sor Benedict, is near calving, but hardly equal to the dam in merit. 

 Welcome Eose with a double cross of Windsor Eitz Windsor has 

 two daughters Eose Eitz Halnaby and Eose Mundi, by Mr. Talbot 

 Crosbie's Lothian Fitz Halnaby 45180, for some short time used in 

 the vale by Lord Bolton ; the sisters were in an outlying pasture 

 looking well despite the showers of sleet suggestive of winter 

 quarters which came unpleasantly sweeping across the valley, 

 showing that constitution is necessary for whatever class of stock is 



