108 SHORTHORN HERDS OF EXGLAXD. 



First amongst the buildings near the Hall, \ve enter a large roomy, 

 well ventilated byre, capable of holding 30 animals, fitted up with 

 M.usgrave's patent iron fastenings. The Red Rose family are 

 numerous, and prominent, the Eighth, by Duke of Kirklevington, has 

 her offspring, the Seventeenth, Twentieth, and Twenty Ninth, by her 

 side, all the sisters are roans, with the oldest as the best shaped, 

 although without the size of the younger ones. Red Rose 15th, a 

 large framed, fine looking cow, is from Red Rose 5th, the dam of 

 nine heifers in succession, and when in full milk gave over 25 quarts 

 per day. Rose of Oxford 3rd, a daughter of Sir Brian, represents 

 the Blawith Moss Rose family, and Grace Peony 3rd, a red, by 

 Valentine' Duke 44175 (a son of Duke of Underley), does like duty 

 for Mr. John Davidson's prize winning Peonys. Strawberry 10th, 

 a Royal Cambridge 4th cow, is also present with a shapely udder ; 

 she is the dam of a good roan heifer, seen amongst the younger 

 stock. Our choice of four calves, is a white, from Red Rose 20th, 

 and in another box, a red, fiom Red Rose 26th, is considered very 

 neat. We then pass to the older heifers, first however seeing Louisa 

 29th, a large fine cow, by the Hon. M. H. Cochrane's Breakspear 

 33197, out of Louisa 19th, of the Mason Louisa family. When 

 purchased in Northumberland by Mr. Bowstead, she was in-calf to 

 King Malcolm 43419, and the produce is at present suckling a very 

 pretty roan cow calf, while the dam is doing like duty. Gaiety came 

 with Louisa 29th, to Eden Hall, and when sold proved the highest 

 priced animal at last year's sale besides leaving Gaiety 2nd, by Beau 

 Benedict, to represent her, so we may congratulate Mr. Bowstead on 

 making a profitable day's work when attending the East Mill Hills 

 sale, in the Northern County. A red and white, by the home-bred 

 Oxonian 48409, from Lady Butterfly, of the Vestris tribe, is a thick 

 level heifer, one of the best in the herd, and in the same building is 

 Red Rose 34th, the seventh of the nine heifers, out of Red Rose 5th. 

 We may well conclude by saying that bulls from the Eden Hall herd, 

 have long been in high favour with Cumberland and" Westmoreland 

 farmers, seeking for large framed deep milking shorthorns, and some 

 of them have come no less than three and four times in direct 

 succession for their sires. 



