44 SHORTHORN HERDS OF EXUF.A.NU. 



Minnie, a daughter of Donna Bella, takes our fancy. Turning 

 back to the cows. Roan Shamrock, and Gay Shamrock, are own 

 sisters, by Blair Athol, from the Gain ford Hall purchase, the elder 

 a cow of good quality, is the dam of a nice red and white cow calf. 

 Beautiful Butterfly, a fine young cow of Col. Town ley's Barmpton 

 Rose tribe, had been bought at Mr. J. C. Toppin's sale. It has 

 been with deep regret we saw the herd brought to the hammer in 

 consequence of the owner's increasing infirmities and his declining 

 years. 



Between Crook and Newcastle, Mr. Robert Darling is the only 

 shorthorn breeder with the exception of the Birtley Iron Co., who 

 have recently been buyers of pedigree cattle. Plawsworth is the 

 station, and in the village of that name Mr. Darling resides, his 

 shorthorns are not many, but chiefly of two families, of which the 

 Ro^edales are the more important. Rosedale 3rd, bred at Helidon 

 by the Rev. John Storer, by Royal Buckingham ^0718, was exported 

 to Canada by the Hon. M. H. Cochrane with 250gs. on her head, 

 and when that gentleman sent over to this country in '77 to be sold 

 at Millbeckstock the bulk of his Booth shorthorns, Rosedale 3rd 

 returned with two daughters by Sirius, a son of Royal Blithe, and 

 Mr. W. Talbot Crosbie's one thousand guinea Vesper Star, the 

 younger of the sisters named Rosalind was bought for Plawsworth, 

 and is a red and white good fronted cow, Mr. Darling has now 

 seven Rosedales,and Squire Rosedale, and Royal Rosedale, a son, and 

 grandson, of Rosalind, have been used in the herd, so she cannot be 

 said to have been an unfruitful purchase for him. Rosedale Beauty, 

 the oldest of the three daughters, by Messrs. J. W. and E. 

 Cruickshank's Blair Athol, a son of King James, and a Bright cow 

 by King Richard, has been sent over to Birtley for service to King 

 Ronald, bred at Barinoor, her heifer Bright Rosedale, by Mr. John 

 Angus's Barrister 44396, was not seen being at a distant farm. 

 Princess Rosedale, two years younger than her sister, is a pretty 

 shorthorn like cow, probably the neatest of thg family at Plawsworth, 

 Mr. John B. Booth's King of Scots is her sire, she also has a heifer, 



