20 SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 



Mr. Bruere, and fiom Vesper. Miueralist, was bied by Lord Bolton, 

 l)y Mr. Booth's Lord of the Valley, fiom Mary, put chased at the sale 

 of Mr. liobson of Holtby. Mai inion, calved in 1<S(>7, by Loid Blithe, 

 from Melissa, \vas one of the very few bulls sold by the late Mr. T. 

 C. Booth to a breeder in this country. These sires are the first four 

 consecutive crosses in the Prestonia pedigree, and theie are no\v 

 exactly the same number of the tiibe in the herd, the 5th, by Mr. 

 Ay liner's Heir-at- Law, a grand-daughter of the 1st by Maunion, is 

 about closing her career on the shambles, and will leave two 

 daughters, the Oth, and the 12th, the former is by Mr. Willis' Windsor 

 Benedict, and the younger by Mark Tapley, who is also the sire of a 

 white calf from the older sister. 



In 1 868, Kussie, by Brig.ide Major, was bought private l y from 

 Killeiby. along with her half-sister Monitress, and Viscountess, by 

 Valasco. The Kussies are now only represented by two sisters, the 

 8th, a rare good three-year-old by Lothian Fitz Halnaby, from the 

 4th, which we found in a building near Mr. Blair's house, the Oth a 

 light roan, by Mr. rlutchinson's Riby Star, occupying the same stall, 

 has not the size of the older sister. Viscountess, had only three 

 registered crosses of shorthorn blood, the like as Kussie, with this ex- 

 ception that the latter were pure Booth, and Viscountess's third cross 

 was a bull Maximus, bred by Mr. Batty. Out of three females, 

 Vensela 1st, by the Carperby Vice Admiral was away at the York 

 Fat Show, so the breeding portion is limited to the same as the 

 Kussies, with a two and a three year old as the hopes of the family, 

 both are at the West field homestead. Monitress's daughter. Pallas, 

 by K. C. B., had Pales, to Booth's Royal Signet, she in turn had 

 amongst others two daughters, Persephone, and Perseis, which are 

 now founding two branches of the family by merely adding 

 numbers to each name, both are living, Persephone, the elder, is a 

 thick good cow, not very large, the dam of two heifers by Lothian 

 Fitz Halnaby and Riby Star, the younger, Persephone 4th, is an 

 uncommonly sweet straight heifer. Perseis, by Mr. Ay liner's Heir- 

 at-Law is a heavy fleshed short legged cow, with two heifers in the 

 herd, the younger Perseis 2nd, a red, by Mark Tapley, we consider the 



