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three following years, by the purchase of females of the Brawith Moss 

 Eose. Townley Barmpton Eoee, and Nunwick Pearl tribes, has 

 been bred chiefly from these families. Mr. Thompson's first purchase 

 in the male line was Grand Duke of Fawsley 3rd 31286, of Sir C. 

 Knightley's Ruby tribe, at Beaumont Grange, in 1872, he was 

 followed by Brilliant Butterfly 36270, bred at Inglewood, a com- 

 bination of Madaline and Birmpton Eose blood, both proved 

 successful sires, but his great purchase was Beau Benedict 42709, a 

 son of Paul Potter, and Home Beauty, at Sheriff Hutton, since 

 pronounced one of the most impressive sires of modern days, as 

 witness the beautiful lot of heifers by him at Inglewood, and the 

 victory gained at the Shrewsbury Eoyal of the =50 prize given by 

 the Shorthorn Society for the best bull of any age, with not less than 

 two of his offspring belonging to the same owner, and a week later 

 by winning at the Highland Centeniary Meeting at Edinburgh, 

 another handsome prize, for the best collection of animals comprising 

 a male over a year, and three females in their various stages past 

 calfhood, the latter were Inglewood Pet, and her two handsome 

 daughters, by Beau Banedict, which were second in the family class 

 at Eipon the month after. 



Milk is not neglected at Inglewood, as witness the udders 

 belonging to the fine row of cows in the byre. Fair Millicent, is 

 the oldest of the Moss Eose family, here known as the Millicents, 

 she is a beautiful cow, with the sweetest head and horn imaginable, 

 her daughter, Fair Millicent 2nd, another good animal, is the dam of 

 the show heifer, Molly Millicent, but the best of the four Millicent 

 cows here together, is Belle Millicent, a younger daughter of Fair 

 Millicent, she was exhibited on 20 occasions as a yearling, and two 

 year old, and won 18 prizes, never being beaten in the counties of 

 Cumberland or Westmorland, as a heifer, and the fourth of the 

 family is Mildred Millicent, another of Brilliant Butterfly's 

 daughters, with an excellent udder. Pearl Necklace 2nd, and 

 Precious Pearl, are mother, and daughter, of a family well known 

 at Nunwick in former days, the older is a cow of large scale, not so 

 neat as could be desired, but put to Beau Benedict, the younger is 



