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addition to these Mr. Brockbank has several of the Benson family, 

 favourably known in connection with the herd at Brayton, whilst 

 other local sorts bred at Scaleby, and Hall Santon, have been 

 introduced, and one family tracing descent from cows sent into 

 Cumberland, by Mr. Wotherell, kept first at Kirkandrevvs, by Mr. John 

 Graham, and both there, and at Raby Cote, by Mr. J. Baswick. To 

 these/have been used Borderer 33183, bred by Lord Bective, out of 

 Winsome 8th; Dainty Duke 5th 43018, from one of Mr. Foster's 

 Duchess Nancy cows at Killhow, and last an entire change of blood 

 has been resorted in Mr. Willis' Admiral Fitz Clarence 48987, a son 

 of his famous Vice Admiral 39257, and Bashful Bride, one of the 

 best cows at Carpeiby. 



Along the Maryport and Carlisle line, running from Whitehaven 

 into Carlisle, are the well known herds of Brayton, and Killhow, but 

 that of Mereside, belonging to Mr. John Tudd, equal distance from 

 Aspatria, and Wigton, was the first to take our attention after leaving 

 Preston Hows. Mr. Messenger, bought Dairy, by Magician 2nd, at 

 the Rev. J. Benson's sale in 1837, and sold her to Mr. Todd when 

 13 years old, she bred Mr. Todd three heifers, which are duly 

 recorded in Vol. 10, baing his first entry in that valuable record. 

 Flora, a grand-daughter of Dairy, was sold to Mr. D. Dixon, who 

 bred Daisy, and the letter's daughter, Miss Brown, by Capt. 

 Spencer's Skyrocket 18874, was purchased by Mi 1 . Todd at the 

 Scaleby Castle Sale of 1868. She was afterwards sent to Royal 

 Cambridge 25009, and the produce, Miss Cambridge, proved a local 

 prize winner. Baroness Benson, by Baron Oxford 5th 27958, a 



somewhat gaudy red and white grand-daughter of Miss Cambridge, 

 is now the oldest of the tribe, five in number, all the younger 

 members are named after their founder, being distinguished by the 

 several prefixes of Milly, Blossy, and Rose. This tribe came from 

 the sime bieeder, as the better known Benson family, connected for 

 some time past with the Biayton herd. Of another branch are the 

 sisters. Princess Alice, and Piincess Helena, the latter the best of 

 four heifers seen in a useful shed erected by Mr. Todd in one of the 

 fields. The Tulips, and Doias, both having the same solid found- 



