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very numerous, they are almost all either Blanches or Miss Beverleys, 

 the two best were a red and a roan of the latter tribe, a few more 

 shorthorns were kept still further away, but as we had seen the 

 general character of the herd we contented ourselves with returning 

 by way of the Park, and seeing where the Duchesses in their palmy 

 days used to roam in summer time, and let us hope that ere many 

 years elapse with the fresh blood introduced, there will be as many 

 numbers of the tribe again in the Park as when the Yorkshire held 

 its meeting at Wetherby in '(38. 



Harrogate lies not far distant from Wetherby, and when 2\ 

 miles on the Harlow lioad we come to Moor Park, hardly known 

 as the place where a herd of first-class Booth shorthorns exists, but 

 if Mr. H. Williams the owner buys the best lots, as he did at the 

 dispersion of the Acton Burnell and Knowlmere herds, it soon 

 will be. A special feature at Moor Park are the dozen loose boxes 

 recently erected and admirably fitted up in every res pert, if shorthorns 

 won't prosper and multiply in such dwellings, it will be difficult to 

 find any home where they will. The occupant of th^ first box, 

 Queen Anna, a fine looking cow from Mr. Wm. White's, has by 

 her side the first of Prince of Halnaby's get, a roan heifer of 

 considerable promise. Marissa, a red and little white, by Mr. Carr's 

 Baron Stackhouse 30488, one of the last sons of his famous bull 

 breeder, Windsor's Queen, hails from Knowlmere, and is suckling 

 a roan bull calf, born since her change of ownership. In '71, when 

 the first Knowlmere herd came to the hammer, three females of 

 this tribe made just over 300 gs. each, a red heifer calf named 

 Marigold, altho' in the auction list was not offered, and from her 

 sprang the numerous progeny offered last July. Mermaid, a daughter 

 of Marissa by Sir Simeon's half-brother Lord Clarence 45074 

 winner of the 1st in his class at the Guild Show at Preston in '82 

 a very straight level young cow, especially lengthy and good in 

 her quarters, and standing low to the ground, she pleases our eye 

 more than the dam, and the public evidently appeared of the same 

 mind at Knowlmere, when she rose to be the highest priced of her 

 family. Porest Fern, a ti uly fine specimen of the shorthorn type 



