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at Preston Hows, his daughter, Holly Bush, won for Mr. Jefferson 

 at Local Shows, prizes and cups, to the value of 150, and we are 

 told she always went from the pasture to the Show Yard, and even 

 in that condition, was enabled to lower the colours of so celebrated a 

 Royal winner as Edgar. It was Holly Bush, that bred First Fiddle, 

 the sire of Bolivar, who after carrying off all the chief prizes in the 

 three kingdoms, retired from the field with an unbeaten certificate. 

 In addition to the two Wailaby sires already named, they were 

 succeeded by Sir Roger, King Charming, Sir James, Lord Blithe, 

 (own brother to Lady Fragrant), Vain Hope, Knight of the Shire, 

 and King Richard 2nd, the last two being sons of Comrnander-in- 

 Chief. Benbicula, a very handsome, goodly proportioned roan son 

 of Knight of St. Patrick, and Oak Bracelet, has been in use five 

 seasons, and a lot of nice heifers, capital colours, and full of quality, 

 have been born to him at Preston Hows. Saxon, a dark red son of 

 Benbicula, and British Beauty, of the Village Rose tribe, bought from 

 Mr. Wm. Fox, shares with his sire, and half brother, Ben Lomond, 

 from Lady Beaumont, of the Angus Premium tribe, the honours of 

 the herd. 



Of the females more than a dozen different families are represen- 

 ted. Amongst the cows, many of which are very deep milkers, on 

 Duchess of Wellington, a daughter of Lady Pigot's Red Cross 

 Knight, age is beginning to tell, although Rupee, a large fine roan, 

 has a 27th Duke of Oxford for sire, he is not the fashionable one of 

 that name, bred at Holker. Comfrey, a well fleshed, upstanding 

 white, is one of Sir Windsor Broughton's daughters, from Cream, 

 bred at Childwick Hall. Expected Gruest, carrying her years 

 extremely well, although of an old Preston Hows sort, tracing to 

 Cheerful, by Troutbeck 9755, had been purchased very cheaply at 

 the Edga Hill sale, but one of the finest cows is Lady Beaumont, by 

 Knight of Knowlmere 2nd, the mother of Ben Lomond, both this 

 cow, and her dam, Lady Bolivar, have taken family prizes at the 

 West Cumberland Shows. A pair of twin heifers, Courtly, and 



Courtlike, have the same grand-dam as Mr. Jonathan Peel's Casquette, 

 winner of first and cup at the Preston Guild Show. Lady Lamina, 



