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understand the South Americans offered in vain 1500gs. for him 

 twelve months ago, and it may be added that Mr. Drewry has sent 

 two of the Holker Oxfords for service to him in his new home. 



Wild Duchess of Geneva 5th, out of one of the original purchases, 

 now ranks as the oldest of the family, all of which are either red or 

 roan, thus adding to the family resemblance, and the older cows and 

 heifers as they come down from the hill side pastures where they 

 have been out the whole December afternoon, looking none the 

 worse for it, make a pretty group. The Eighth and the Ninth, 

 own sisters in blood, by Duke of Oxford 27th, both very fine good 

 looking cows, are our special favourites amongst the older matrons, 

 the younger is considered the^better, but it must not be forgotten 

 that there is a difference of two years and the same number of months 

 between them, when the Ninth arrives at that age, her wonderful 

 good back will probably not be what it is at present. Of a younger 

 generation we have the Eleventh, and Twelfth, by Duke of Harrington 

 8th, a grand pair of heavy fleshed young animals, the former with a 

 lovely head and horn. The Seventh put to Duke of Waterloo 5th, 

 produced the Thirteenth, curiously the cross has not succeeded, and 

 yet the dam and sisters of the bull are some of the best cattle at 

 Capheaton. The Sixteenth, a very stylish cow, is one of the oldest 

 of Duke of Oxford 48th's daughters, while the Eighteenth has hardly 

 the size of the Twentieth, and the Twenty First, another very promising 

 young cow, has not long had her first born to Duke of Oxford 62nd. 

 The Twenty Sixth, a grandly ribbed heifer, owing to an accident to 

 her leg, is lower in condition than the rest. The Twenty Ninth, 

 and Thirtieth, are two excellent daughters of 1884, by Duke of 

 Oxford 48th, from the Ninth, and Fifth ; and in the autumn months 

 of the same year five more Wild Duchesses of Geneva were born, 

 Thirty One to Thirty Five inclusive, occupying one shed, we have thus 

 the opportunity of comparing their rival merits, and after careful 

 inspection, we prefer the oldest, a lengthy, deep heifer, very good in 

 her underline, and full of hair, the daughter of the Eighteenth, and 

 Baron Oxford 12th, who is also the sire of a pair of very pretty calves, 

 out of the Fifteenth, and Sixteenth, as well as a capital coated one 

 out of the Twentieth. 



