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of Ormskiik 7th, the fomth generation from Lord Lathom's "six 

 thousand" New Torks Mills purchase. Several cows have recently 

 calved, and are still in the yard, including Lady Julia 4th, a very 

 wealthy young animal, with a Mason foundation, whose dam was 

 one of three females submitted to the public by Mr. Drewry, after 

 the Holker sale of 1878. Oneida's Princess, another good cow, 

 has the imported Sixth Duke of Oneida for sire, making with her 

 daughter, Oxford's Princess, the only specimens of the Princess 

 Victoria branch of the Peach tribe in the herd, when Bell Bates 

 cattle were in their height of popularity in the States, our American 

 friends carried away many of this family. Before leaving the yard 

 the merits of Countess Waterloo, of the Penryhn branch, and 

 Madame Favart, a Duchess of Rutland, are discussed, the latter is 

 full of the most fashionable blood of the day, having such crosses 

 as Earl of Oxford 2nd, Sir Glo'ster Barrington, Duke of Oxford 

 19th, Duke of Clarence, Duke of York 7th, and Duke of Oxford 6th, 

 in direct succession, and her grandam, Duchess of Rutland 3rd, is 

 a very beautiful cow, one of the best at North Ferriby, she has a 

 good red daughter in Fordham's Duchess of Rutland, by the 

 American Fordham Duke of Oxford 4th, used extensively by 

 Mr. Clarke's neighbour, Mr. Botterill, at Waulby. Of the animals 

 seen nearest the estuary, Duchess Syringa, is our favourite, her 

 companions being a roan Belvoir, out of Duchess of Rutland 3rd, 

 Madame Ursula, Lady Barrington Gwynne, and a Countess of 

 Wetherby, obtained originally from Mr. W. R. Bromet's. The 

 heifers are seen on our return, out of which we select a sweet 

 looking Guelder Rose as ths most to our taste, in fact Mr. Clarke's 

 cattle as a whole are a lot of good heavy fleshed useful animals. 



A short drive from North Ferriby brings us to Waulby, 

 formerly known to breeders as the place where Mr. Botterill used 

 to invite his friends to meet Mr. Thornton at lunch every few years, 

 and on his removal into Lincolnshire, still another shorthorn 

 breeder changed his quarters, and we find Mr. Joseph Thompson in 

 possession. Mr. Thompson's father at Anlaby purchased Empress 

 at Sir Wm. Wright's sale about 1850, and in point of numbers 



