SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 5 



so but one end awaits her. Acoinb 10th a level young cow of a 

 lightish roan, occupies the corner division, an accident when young 

 prevents her holding her head straight, nevertheless perfectly healthy 

 she is the mother of an excellent white bull calf. 



In the next yard we are much charmed with two Blanche bulls, 

 a red and a roan, but darkness intervening an adjournment is made 

 across the river, when a pleasant evening is spent with a late breeder 

 of shorthorns, as one was retained there is hopes of a second herd. 

 In tho morning once more to the Grange Farm, to finish our work, 

 and the Blanche bulls are again viewed, near at hand is Duchess 

 126th, the lovely white daughter of the home bred Duke Blanche 

 and Duchess 119th, a thick good heifer, with great substance, which 

 in due time will mature into one of the finest cows in the herd. 

 When Prince Airdire 48472, one of the two stock sires is 

 brought out, about as lengthy a straight, strong backed bull stands 

 forth, as ordinary mortals wish to see. In breeding he is an American^? 

 Princess, bred at Thicket Priory, descending from Princess of Oxford 

 6th, imported by Mr. Geo. Fox. Duke Gwynne 51099, from the 

 grand old cow Christmas Grwynne previously noticed, is of a smaller 

 mould than Prince Airdire, whose duties he shares, but he has time to 

 grow considerably as he is not two years till February, both Prince 

 Saladin and Christmas Grwynne have gained their laurels as sire and 

 dam respectively, so their joint produce should accomplish great things, 

 but how often this fallacy proves the contrary with man and beast. 

 In a calf house filled with representatives of the Foggathorpe, 

 Waterloo, and Wild Eyes tribes, a roan from Geneva Foggathorpe 

 attracts our notice on account of her excellent coat of hair, and 

 perhaps equally so on the ground that the owner has given the 

 Foggathorpe's a home in his large herd, when other breeders are 

 now doing likewise, it is possible that this tribe may again compare 

 favourably in market value to the other minor Kirklurington tribes, 

 as they did in 1850. 



It is here necessary for shorthorns to do their duty at the pail, 

 and amongst those in milk two of the [Sweetheart family mother 

 and daughter appear equal to their share. Darlingtina llth a 



