24 SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 



here Mr. John Strong came to farm five and twenty years ago 

 under Mr. Saunders, and thus had the use of the Nun wick bulls, 

 which are found in most of his pedigrees, like many another herd in 

 Cumberland and Westmoreland, these pedigrees are the results of 

 careful records of the sires from good dairy cows until they became 

 eligible, and it may be added that every animal on the farm has now 

 the requisite five crosses. 



At the sale of the Culgaith estate to Mr. E. Parker, his 

 nephew Mr. Francis Parker, of Acorn Bank, purchased Pure Gold, 

 champion bull at the County show, from Mr. Greo. Ashburner for 

 the use of the tenants. Mr. Strong has since gone in for sires on 

 his own account, and bought Earl of Doune, followed by Dainty 

 Duke 4th, both sons of 22nd Duke of Oxford, and highly bred 

 dams of the Duchess Nancy family, from Mr. Poster of 

 Killhow : and Lord Elderbeck 2nd, is the present head of the herd, 

 born in April, 1883, he was bred at Underley, by Prince Saladin 

 4th, a grandson of Lord Bective's favourite cow Lady Sale of 

 Putney, and traces to Eed Eose of Eskdale, imported into this 

 country from Mr. Abe Renick's in Kentucky, he is a very useful 

 bull with a capital brisket, rare good loin, and a pair of well fleshed 

 thighs. Mr. Strong won the cup for the best general farm stock 

 at the Penrith Show in 1881, and the prize for the best ten animals, 

 other honours have been won including a Royal second at Carlisle. 

 Princess Louise, fifteen years old last month, is from an Edgar 

 cow by Mr. Hesketh's Lord L-eutenant, who was by Earl of 

 Eglinton he and the famous Edgar were out of half sisters 

 with so much of this bull's blood in her veins no wonder that she 

 should breed well, but unfortunately has only had three heifers ; 

 Duke of Edinburgh, her son by Pure G-old, was sold for 120 gs. to 

 Mr. J. W. Askew. Kirklevington Princess, her oldest daughter by 

 Lord Bective's Duke of Kirklevington, stands in the same stall, 

 and is almost as good looking as her dam, whose head and horns we 

 much admired, likewise she has been a great bull breeder, Prince 

 Louis, her son in '80, went to M. Maximo de Elia's in South 

 America. Another good cow is Wild Grirl 2nd, by the prize bull 



