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sires the females are sent for service ; after hearing so much about 

 purity of breeding, and perfection in shape, being so difficult to obtain 

 in a single animal, it is quite a treat to gaze upon so charming a 

 heifer, her ribs, back, loin, and quarters, are all good, and in depth 

 of bosom, she is not found wanting, may she live long, and breed 

 many more the equal of herself. Her young brother is full of 

 promise, and another calf of the tribe from Lady Waterford, bred at 

 Thicket Priory, hardly promises to be the equal of her older sister, 

 Belle Alliance ; their dam a wealthy fleshed cow, is a daughter 

 of one of the Holker Dukes of Oxford. Gazelle of Xawton, 

 from another Thicket Priory purchase, is very mellow in her 

 touch, and with Nawton Duchess of Waterloo 3rd, from the 

 older daughter of Duchess of Waterloo, we come to the last of the 

 i-hoiVe little herd at Nawtou Grange. 



Returning to Beadlam Grange, a pleasant drive brings us to 

 Helmsley, where Mr. Marshal Stephenson, the genial secretary of 

 the County Agricultural Society, who has also the chaige of the 

 estate and herd belonging to the Earl of Feversham, is seen in the 

 distance making for the station, but on overtaking him, it requires 

 little persuasion to induce him to share our vehicle, and have an 

 afternoon amongst the shorthorns. The Griff farm lies about a 

 quaiter of a mile bayond the paik, where the majority of the short- 

 horns are kept; before proceeding further, \,e must not omit to 

 mention that the foundation of this old established herd was laid as 

 far back as Mr. Robert Colling's sale in 1818, and purchases were 

 also made from. Major Bower, and Mr. Parrington, to these Mr. 

 Bates' Cleveland Lads, 2nd Earl of Beverley, and 5th Duke of Oxford, 

 the Royal winner at Chester in 1858, were used, followed by 

 Gloucester 12950, bred by Earl Ducie, and Skyrocket 15306, a son 

 of 5th Duke of Oxford, and a Royal winner in 1861. After the death 

 of the late Earl of Feversham, in 1867, a sale was held, and 38 head 

 averaged <33 19s. 2d, two females of each tribe being retained by 

 the present Earl, and at Holker in 1871, Twentieth Duke of Oxford 

 28432, was secured at the then high price of l,000gs, since that 



