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Drop, with a beautiful front, and shapely udder, has three heifers in 

 the herd. The Grace tribe, the last of the families which are entirely 

 of Hartforth origin, are much shorter in descent than either the 

 Nanny's or Strawberry's, being bred from a cow Leopardess 1st, by 

 Col. Cradock's Freetrader 10246 ; a good stamp of a heifer is Lady 

 Grace, by Mr. S. R. C. Ward's Lord Roseberry, a son of Brilliant 

 Rose, of the Blanche tribe, a bull that was used in the herd. 



Five families have been added by the present owner, of other- 

 wise than the old Hartforth blood, taken in the order of the private 

 catalogue the Ciss tribe are first, as well as in numbers. Donna, by 

 Mr. R. Booth's Valasco, a grand-daughter of Ciss, being purchased in 

 1866 from Sir William Lavvson, Bart., of Brough Hall. Bella, 

 calved in '74, a good heavy fleshed sort is one of the oldest, and of 

 this family is Velvet, who with two Hartforth crosses on Valentia, 

 by Valasco, a grand-daughter of Ciss, bred Veteran, to Lord Roseberry, 

 sold to Mr. John Outhwaite, who resold him to Mr. John Vickers, 

 in whose hands he has been successful as a prize winner. What are 

 here called the Lily Grey tribe, are more generally known as the 

 Sowerbys, and were obtained by the purchase of Lily Grey from ML-. 

 Stables, of Kirkbank, near Catterick. 



More fashionable are the Gwynnes from Upleatham, introduced 

 by the purchase of Mary at the sala in '76, a great grand-daughter 

 of Bella, by Mr. Combe's Cambridge Rose bull The Buck. That 

 fine old cow Olga, of the Blanche tribe, had a grand-daughter 

 Midnight, sold at one of Lord Fevershain's sales, when she was 

 knocked down to Mr. Cradock in calf to the 1000 guinea 20th Duke 

 of Oxford, and the produce Midnight 2nd, is now one of the hand- 

 somest cows in the herd, and like the Blanches generally do, they 

 have multiplied freely. There are also Lady Morris, bred by Mrs. 

 Healey, of Morris Grange, and her daughter, to represent a family 

 tracing to Rachel, by Noble 4579. At present Duke of Charming- 

 land 26th, bred at Brailes, by the 10th Duke of Barrington, out of 

 Charming Duchess 12th, stands at the head of the herd, he is a 

 lengthy fine bull, with a good deep front ; the Duke of Rothesay 



