128 SHORTHORN HERDS OP ENGLAND. 



Near the highway passing from Osgodly to Selby, the River 

 Ouse winds its course, and on the opposite bank near to the town, 

 a few good framed shorthorns are to bo seen, the property of Mr. 

 John Foster, of Bank House. The earliest purchases were Miss 

 Irwin, her daughter, Matilda, and Plush, all of the Sowerby family, 

 purchased at the dispersion of Mr. Win. Linton's prize 

 winning herd in 1879; afterwards came the Carolines, mother, and 

 daughter, bred by Mr. R. Walmsley, and at the last of the Thicket 

 Priory sales, Rosetta, and two heifers of the J. branch of the Princess 

 tribe, were added to the previous purchases, and from these animals 

 the herd is mainly descended, Rose Duke 10th 48600, bred by Lord 

 Mowbray and Stourton, was one of the first sires, followed by Roan 

 Irwin 2nd 48582, of Mr. Maynard's Flora tribe, and we find Vice 

 Admiral Rose 52291, bred at Carperby, by the celebrated Vic 3 

 Admiral 39257, from Rose of Summer, has recently come to assist 

 the home bred Selby 50425, a deep red son of the Duke of 

 Manchester's Oxford de Vere 4th 46821, and Jersey Rose, purchased 

 at Mr. J. I. D. Jefferson's sale. Vice Admiral Rose, is a very even 

 made bull, not unlike Mr. Handley's Royal Ingram in colour. 

 Carnation, an excellent dairy cow exhibited in the non-pedigree class 

 at the last Yorkshire Meeting, is still very blooming and may probably 

 if again sent in the show ring, not be so easily overcome by her late 

 victors. Caroline 5th, the first of the family bred by Mr. Foster, 

 not five years old until the end of the month, has bred live 

 calves, and is in calf again, in appearance she is a short legged deep 

 fronted cow, with a capital udder, and in the same byre is Rosotta, 

 somewhat put in the shade by the merits of the two whites. Close 

 at hand we have Yorkshire Prido, Rosetta's produce after purchased 

 in calf to Oxford De Vere 4th 46821 ; in her companionship is the 

 dam of the Resarve bull shown at tha R. A. S. Meeting at York, as 

 well as Ruby, by Mr. Willis' Booth's Royal Seal 36016, and her 

 daughter, of Mr. Ben Wilson's Certainty tribe. The heifers are all 

 together, and include several pretty daughters of Roan Irwin 2nd, 

 with them is Jersey Duchess, a handsome cow, with a beautiful velvet 

 like touch, having six highly bred Bates sires on Jardine, by Lord 

 Warden 7167. 



