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very prolific at Highfield. Two other purchases, named Faith, and 

 Jollity, carne from Mr. J. R. Singleton's of Givendale, and from these 

 sorts the herd has been bred. The sires more recently have inclined 

 to the Bates side of the house, two of the earliest were The Friar 

 15383, bought from Mr. Samuel Wiley nearly thirty years ago, and 

 Snowstorm 35616, bred by Sir Tat ton Sykes : Duke of Rubies 33724, 

 a son of Mr. Brogden's Grand Duke of Lighthorne 3rd, and Ruby 

 Rose 5th, of a branch of the famous Princess tribe ; Duke of Hazlecote 

 23rd 30970, of the Honey family, and Oxford Duke 46823, a son of 

 Baron Oxford 9th 42738, have been included in the most recent sires, 

 and King of Yetholme 3rd, of Mr. G. Scoby's prize winning family, 

 was purchased at that breeder's late sale. Two of Mr. Stamper's 

 finest cows are March Rose, and Winter Rose, daughters of tho 

 Kingscote Honey bull, the first named traces to Mr. Singleton's 

 Faith, and the latter to Snowdrop, by Mr. Bates' Duke of York 4th 

 10167. 



Over the hill from Mr. Stamper's we walk down into the Vale 

 through which runs the line from Pilmoor Junction to Malton, and 

 the station and village of late years have been rendered famous by 

 the victories of Hovingham 43363, named by his breeder, Sir W. 

 C. Worsley, Bart., and so successfully exhibited by Mr. W. Handley, 

 he was a son of Irwin's Star, bought at the dispersion of the Sheriff 

 Hutton herd, in calf to Sir Arthur Ingram 32490, he left a number 

 of calves before leaving his county, including Self Esteem 2nd 48675, 

 another famous show bull of the past two or three seasons, and the 

 second animal seen, is his own sister, Self Conceit, a lengthy young 

 cow, three weeks from calving her second calf, and there is also a 

 younger sister, by Lord Hamilton 48194, a grand lengthy son of 

 Sir Arthur Ingram 32490, bred at Greenhead, and doing service at 

 Hovingham, in his younger days he was exhibited at the Bath and 

 West Meeting at Bridgewater, where he was placed second to Mr 

 Stratton's Acropolis. Trusty Lass, the dam of Self Esteem 2nd, and 

 the two daughters before alluded to, is a light roan daughter of the 

 home bred Sir Robin 40720, who was in turn a son of the Killerby 

 Pluto, she is still breeding, as is also Irwin's Star, a fine old white, 



