SHOUT HORN HERDS OF ENULAXD. 57 



to the latter. Mr. Annett began with using Knight of Murrah, a 

 Cumberland bred bull, by Knight of Killerby, afterwards bulls of the 

 Havvkhill blood weie used, and at present Gallantly, a thick shoit 

 legged bull, of the Gaiety tribe, is in use, a son of Mr. W. Talbot 

 Ciosbie's Foreign Viceroy, and Gay Flower. A thiid family is that 

 represented by Mantilla 3rd, and her bull calf, tracing to Mr. John 

 Booth's Mantle, by Marcus. The herd is kept as useful farm stock, 

 and Butter Dish is the only animal that has been exhibited, and she 

 merely at the local Morpeth Show where she was placed second to a 

 heifer from Catchburn. 



Crags ide, beautifully situate near to Rothbury, is the residence 

 of Sir W. G. Armstrong, C.B., who possesses a herd singularly 

 unique of its kind, every female being of a fashionable tribe, and 

 descended from one cow, Mr. Cheney's Wild Oxford, the dam of six 

 heifers at Gaddesby, which were sold at an average of over 400gs. 

 each, Mr. T. Gow securing for Cragside three own sisters named 

 Wild Duchesses of Geneva, by which name the family have since 

 been known here, and the males as Wild Dukes of Geneva, the 

 twenty seventh being the last born, while thirty eight has been 

 reached in the " Wild Duchesses," and twenty nine are now their 

 present number, here at any rate the theory that purer the tribe, 

 and greater the proportion of males, is set at naught, as on referring 

 to the pedigree what more line bred than this branch of the Wild 

 Eyes. ? The owner has gradually drafted his other tribes from time 

 to make room for the increase of the Wild Duchesses of Geneva, of 

 which, with the exception of the sale of a couple in the past summer 

 to Canada, none have been sold. From 1878 to 1885, five Oxford 

 bulls and one Barrington have done service in the herd, excluding 

 Oxford Beau 4th, from Kingscote, they all hailed from Holker, and 

 at Hindlip, in May, the best of the Dukes came north to Cragside. 

 Duke of Somerset, of an unfortunate red and white, is a son of Mr. 

 E. E. Oliver's Grand Duke 30th, and Duchess 114th, he is a very 

 handsome level bull, of excellent quality, and likely to do good 

 especially after the introduction of so much Oxford blood, we 



