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for its herds, but in the United Kingdom, and considerable expense 

 has been incurred by Mr. Briggs in making his estate, and buildings, 

 capable of carrying, and accomodating a herd of high class shorthorns. 

 A note is inserted in the preface to the private catalogue issued in 

 1884-, to (he effect that " it is the intention to rnako this a first class 

 herd of Bates cattle, without being too artificially kept, and not to 

 sacrifice the animal for fashion, but to combine the blood of such 

 animals as the catalogue contains, with additional ones, as it may 

 seem prudent to add in order to make the herd robust and prolific." 

 With such a laudable object in view, a judicious blending of the blood 

 of the various tribes, taking in account their merits and imperfections, 

 when uniting them, and in a do/en years hence such a herd will be 

 to be seen at Osgodby Hall, as will be worth our Yankee friends 

 coming purposely over the herring pond to see, as here are gathered 

 representatives of the pure Duchesses of Oneida,and Lady of Oxfords, 

 so famous when in the States in the hands of Messrs. Walcott and 

 Campbell ; Oxfords from Holker ; Kirklevingtons, tracing through 

 Mr. K/. Pavin Davies' herd, so long associated with the breeding of 

 the Kirklevington Duchesses ; the ancient Barrington tribe has three 

 branches, the Wild Eyes, and Waterloo, four, and three respectively, 

 and the fifth of the six great Kirklevington tribes, the Foggathorpes, 

 have three representatives, but the Cambridge Roses are distin- 

 guishable by their absence, although the Blanches once in the hands 

 of Mr. Bates, are having a trial here, in what may be almost termed 

 a second Kirklevington herd. The Bell Bates families are the Craggs, 

 and descendants of Fletcher's daughters, Fletcher 2nd, and Nancy, 

 now known as Fantails, and Fuschias. Mr. Stephenson's Princess, 

 is represented, and the Darlingtons were added in September last at 

 the Undeiley sale, when two branches came to Osgodby, we think 

 our readers will agree that with such a variety of the choicest 

 materials to amalgamate, there should not be much difficulty in being 

 able to breed the sires for home use ; here are the materials, but alas ! 

 how often what has been in the budding the promise of a first rate 

 herd, has through mismanagement, unsound judgement, or more 

 often to bo regretted the death of the owner ended in total shipwreck 

 of such hopes. 



