S1KVRTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 25 



Pure Gold, out of Wild Girl, by the Nimwick Wild Boy, beyond 

 this there are but two registered crosses, one of which is Mr. 

 Bolden's General Hay nan 11520, a son of Mr. Booth's Leonidas, 

 while Princess Louise bayond the Edgar cow has the same number 

 with the addition of a son of the celebrated Eden 3689, followed 

 by Lord de Roos 4254. The Baroness' are strongly represented in 

 this shippon having White Baroness 2nd, sister to Goldsmith, 

 second at the Carlisle Royal, her daughter White Baroness 3rd, and 

 Duchess of Dentsdale, by a Darlington bull from White Baroness, 

 this last a level good cow, is considered the best in the herd. All 

 the younger stock are by Dainty Duke 4th with the exception of a 

 red Waterloo heifer, full of hair, of the " Speculator " branch, bred 

 by Mr. Richardson, by the Duke of Devonshire's 36th Duke of 

 Oxford, and she is the only pedigree animal, except Lord Elderbeck 

 2nd, not bred by Mr. Strong on the premises. Included amongst 

 the younger cattle are Duchess of Dentsdale 2nd, a roan from 

 Duchess of Dentsdale, and Princess Louise's two last daughters, a 

 white, and roan, born in her 13th and 14th years. Out of four 

 useful young bulls our choice is a roan from Wild Girl 3rd. 



Passing once more from Westmoreland into Yorkshire, by the 

 same useful line of railway running from Hawes Junction to 

 North allerton, we halt this time at Wensley Station ; down in the 

 vale lies Bolton Hall, the seat of Lord Bolton, snugly situate from 

 the wintry blasts. Mr. Blair meeting us at the station, and learning 

 some of the heifers are at Westfield, about a quarter of a mile distant 

 in an opposite direction to the Home Farm, we direct our steps towards 

 that homestead. 



Before we notice any of the animals individually, some few 

 notes on the herd are desirable, the first bull used by Lord Bolton 

 was Mario, bred by his neighbour, Mr. C. Topham, of Middleham in 

 1852, a son of the Silky Laddie, so familiar in Mr. R. S. Bruere's 

 pedigrees, from a cow by Mr. Booth's Eitz Leonard, this bull is the 

 foundation cross in the tribe known in the herd as Prestonias, which 

 have been " raised " at Bolton Hall. Mario was followed by Day 

 Star 12686, bred by another neighbour, this time none other than 



