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The old Styford stock being thus full of Colling blood, all the 

 five families now at Bearl, trace to a Son of Habback 319. The herd 

 has been bred on the same lines as that of Broomley was, which when 

 sold in 1869, and 1878, realized an average of =44 on both occasions 

 for the fifty five and sixty head respectively, no bad econium of the 

 merits of what is now familiarly spoken of as the old " Angus " blood. 

 Of recent years King Malcolm, and Master of Arts, have been hired 

 from Warlaby, Richmond, bred at Aylesby, and Foreign Viceroy, 

 out of Mr. Torr's Foreign Queen, have all been usad, as well as Ben 

 Brace, of the Killerby Bracelet trib3, a Royal winner both in 

 England and Ireland. At present, Village Chief, a three year old 

 son of Mr. Aylmer's Sir Brian, and Villager, of the Village Rose tribe, 

 is in service, having been first hired from his breeder, Mr. Win. Fox, 

 and then purchased at the sale last spring ; he is a dark roan of 

 good character, with excsllent quality. Cherry Necklet. Strawberry 

 Blossom, and Princess Mab, are the first sean, the last naimd a 

 square framed, wide ribbed cow, is the best of the three, while 

 Cherry Necklet, has bred three heifers in succession, and Strawberry 

 Blossom, a neat daughter of King Malcolm's, with Strawberry 

 Flower, represent the "Smelt House" family, so named on account 

 of the original cow having come from Mr. Atkinson, of Smelt House, 

 who had however previously obtained them either late in the last 

 century, or early in the present one, from Mr. Angus, of Styford, 

 which came again into the possession of the family about 1835. Dairy 

 Queen, of the " Premium" tribe, headed by King Malcolm, Hawthorn, 

 and Ben Brace, has lengthy even quarters, and Princess Mabel, by 

 Master "of Arts, from Princess Mab, is very level on her top, and 

 good in her underline. Costly Queen, has had her second calf at two 

 years and ten months old, and Gray Flower, although bred by Mr. 

 J. B. Lee, is out of a sister to the W3ll known Gaiety 3rd, already 

 noticed in the Alnwick herd. Next we have four calves, a white 

 from Gay Flower, has great substance, and is sired, as well as two 

 others, by Young Albion, the last lot at the Unicarville sale, when 

 he was bought for Bearl, where aft^r a short term of service he was 

 sold to Mr. Win. Fox. Perhaps the prettiest of the quartette, is a 

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