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CHAPTER VI. 



The Lincolnshire Herd*. Yruldlethorpe. Limber lltujna. llelton 



Boss. Tathicell Hall. Scothern. Hackthorne. Gate Burton. 



Strojcton. Lauyhton. The Norfolk Herds. Sandringliam West 



Dereham Abbey. 



Yaddlethorpe, four miles from Grunness, on the Manchester, 

 Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway is our first destination, and on 

 this estate, purchased by Mr. T. A. Titley, considerable additions 

 have been made to the buildings to make them suitable for the 

 animals put chased by him at the recent leading Bates sales. That 

 beautiful cow Kiiklevington Duchess 16th, looking very blooming, 

 is one of the first to welcome us, and in another box, Kirklevington 

 Duchess llth, a very grand old cow, suckling a red bull calf, is 

 from the famous Kirklevington Duchess 5th, the highest priced of 

 the tribe ever sold in this country, being pui chased by Sir Curtis 

 Lampson for l,100gs. ; since our visit Mr. Titley has wisely secured 

 a grand-daughter in Countess of Kirklevington 7th, one of the 

 choicest heifers in the Osgodby herd. In the newly erected substan- 

 tial byre are Baroness Beverley loth, full of Wetherby Duchess 

 blood, and a capital milker ; Lady Emily Barrington, a daughter of 

 Duke of Wetherby 5th 31033, and Lady Ellen Barrington, of 

 the favourite Laurel branch, came from the dispersion of Mr. H. 

 Lovatt's well known herd in company with Winsome Colleen, a grand 

 specimen of the breed, with ever} characteristic of a fashionable bred 

 shorthorn, she brought 7 15gs. when a yearling, being the second highest 

 priced animal, sold at Shotley Hall in 1878 ; her name indicates 

 her ancestry, and it remains but to add that the departed 

 Duke of Connaught is her sire. Czarina 5th, another excellent 

 animal has however not the wonderful depth of the Winsome, and 

 Rowfant Brunette 3rd, a daughter of Grrand Duke 37th, unfor- 

 tunately like many another good heifer is white in colour. 



Lady York and Thorridale Bates 10th, is from the beautiful 

 Lady York and Thorndale Bates 2nd, a very handsome cow- 

 favourably noticed in a herd already mentioned ; this young cow 



