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but her colour is overlooked, when that grand depth of frame is 

 considered. Gazelle Gray, although by Grand Duke 31st, is not by any 

 means the same beautiful style of cow that we remember her darn, 

 Gazelle 3rd. Mr. Dalton has some promising yearling heifers, in one 

 yard, out of a Butterfly Princess, Jelly Flower, and Wild Eyes (two 

 branches), the Lady Worcester calf already noticed is our favourite ; 

 and of a second quartette in the ad joining yard, Christmas Gwynne, the 

 youngest, is probably the best animal, while a Butterfly Princess, out 

 of Butterfly Queen, has great abundance of hair ; Princess of York 

 6th, and Peach Blossom 18th, were calved on successive days, in 

 November, twelve months ago, the former is a Fawsley Furbelow, 

 through Chemisette, by Earl of Dublin, sold at Sir Chas. Knightley's 

 sale for 105gs, to Sir W. Stirling-Maxwell. 



Seven miles to the North East of Carlisle, is Scaleby Castle, 

 where the herd of that name was founded by Mr. Rowland Fawcett, 

 the father of the late Mr. James Fawcett, towards the close of the 

 last, and in the early part of the present century, by the purchase of 

 good and useful North of England shorthorns, whose entries are 

 found in the earliest volumes of the Herd Book, and the earliest sires 

 included Emperor 1010, Champion 3310, and Pizarro 1329, all sons 

 of Favourite 256, and Elvira, a daughter of Mr. Robert Ceiling's 

 celebrated cow Princess, whose blood was further introduced through 

 Snowball 1465, and Don Quixote 987, sons of her grand-daughter 

 Elverina. The late Mr. Fawcett, was from early youth intimately 

 acquainted with Mr. Bates, by whose counsel he was guided in the 

 management of the herd left him by his father, and through his 

 advice purchased Butterfly, by the Princess bull Bellerophon 3117, 

 since a favourite deep milking sort at Scaleby, known as the 

 Butterfly Princesses. Disraeli 10125, found in several of the 

 pedigrees, w r as obtained amongst other sires from Mr. Bates. Duke 

 of Oxford 14th 21605, bred at Holker, and Royal Cumberland 27358, 

 a son of Grand Duke 4th, and the celebrated Moss Rose, were both 

 extensively and successfully used. At Mr. Thomas Bell's sale, in 

 Sept. 1871, 8th Duke of York, was purchased for l,065gs, being the 

 first animal at public auction in England, which eclipsed the l.OOOgs 



