J)8 SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 



Calthwaite Hall is pleasantly situate about midway betwixt 

 Carlisle and Pemith, and here Mr. J. Harris has got together a very 

 promising collection of Holker Oxfords, which will in due time give 

 fame to the name of Calthwaite, as the Oxford Dukes, and Duchesses 

 of Calthwaite, become mote numerous. Mr Harris first purchases 

 were at Killhow, and BL ayton, in 18al ; since then, Oxfords have been 

 introduced from Holker, Turncroft, and Underley, and a much 

 admired calf at Holker was secured after a keen contest with the 

 owner of the Elmhurst herd, this calf has now grown into a massive 

 Bates like bull, wonderfully good in his thighs, and the using of him 

 so freely on the Oxfords, as Mr. Harris has done, is without doubt 

 a wise coursa to adopt, and one which might have been tried with 

 success in past years, instead of nothing but Oxford, and Duke sires, 

 and vice versa, as what is more pleasurable to read than Duke of 

 Holker Tth's pedigree ; Baron Oxford 8th, Duke of Geneva 8th, 

 Duke of York 7th, and Duke of Oxford 4th, are the four last male 

 crosses, and the female line are the Lally branch of the Lady 

 Barringtons of illustrious descent, formerly in the hands of Mr. Bates. 

 Fides Gwy nne, a daughter of Baron Oxford 4th, had come from Lathom, 

 and is certainly a pretty cow, with an exquisite velvet like touch. 

 Fanny Gwynne, was bred in Ireland, and naturally could hardly 

 escape without a dash of alien blood in that Booth loving country, 

 then a third Gwynne cow is one of the local Troutbeck sort, obtained 

 from the late sale at Musgrave Hall. Jenny Deans, a grand- daughter 

 of Edgar, is of the Old Daisy tribe, of a branch which passed through 

 Mr. Stewart Majoribanks' herd, and later on that of Mr. C. R. 

 Saunders.' She has a grandly sprung rib, rare back and loin, 

 but not so neat in her quarters as it is desirable. Empress 

 6th, bred at Scaleby Castle, has taken several prizes, and is a fine 

 shorthorn like cow, with a sweet head, and finely moulded bosom ; 

 then Sonsie 28th, bred at Brayton, the last of the animals in the 

 building, had been shown at Preston, where she was one of the three 

 dairy cows that were awarded second honours. Kinglet 7th, one of 

 Mr. Miller's prize winning group, after coming to Calthwaite had 

 bred King Dove, to the Warlaby Sir Andrew, and both mother, 



