46 SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 



half-sisters by the Warlaby Royal Craftsman, the first named of the 

 Pauline family, fourteen of which averaged 154 each, at the previous 

 Broughton sale, and the last is of the Farewell tribe. Further away 

 are the animals from the Duffryn sale suckling their calves, Lady 

 Wood, not of Stratton blood but lot 3 at the sale, being by Mr. 

 Sheldon's Duke of Harrington 5th, from Louisa 12th, has an especially 

 good roan bull calf by Mr. Stratton's prize winning Acropolis 47316. 



Arrived in the most northern ot the English counties, there is 

 no herd larger than that of the Alnwick Castle, and we may add no 

 owner of a present herd in this county whose family have been 

 connected with shorthorns for more than a century, for it was on 

 June 14th, 1784, Mr. Charles Colling bought a cow, described by 

 Mr. Thomas Bell as "a massive, short legged cow, breast near the 

 ground, a great grower, with wide back, and of a beautiful yellowish 

 red flaked colour," she was sold in Darlington market, and came 

 either from the Stanwick estate, or the neighbouring Aldbrough 

 estate, of the Duke of Northumberland's, she was unnamed when 

 bought by Mr. Colling, and he gave her the name of Duchess, since 

 so celebrated and widely known. The management of the herd at 

 Alnwick has been in the hands of the Patten family for close on 

 sixty years, the late Mr. Patten 47, and his son 12, and the present 

 herd is no bad criterion as to the confidence placed in them. 



Grood bulls have always bjen used since the commencement of 

 the herd, in earlier days it was not thought advisable to go on any 

 particular strain, but for the last 16 years Booth blood has been 

 freely used. Jeweller 26460, first in a class of forty at the Border 

 Union Show in 1869, was purchased from Messrs. Atkinson of Peepy 

 the same year. Then followed Mayor of Windsor 31807, bred at 

 Carperby, and bought as a yearling for 120gs., he proved a capital 

 stock getter, and was the sire of Snowstorm 37496. Fitz Roland, 

 bought at the Aylesby sale, for Lord Tankerville, was next hired for 

 two years, he proved an extraordinary sire, and was an especial good 

 heifer getter, as witness the cows now in the herd. Since then Sir 

 Raymond, Prince Albert Victor, King Stephen, Royal Studley, King 



