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to Mr. Sharpley's share, they have since been crossed with many of 

 Mr. R. E. Oliver's famous Grand Dukes, which were either purchased, 

 hired, or visited ; in referring to the various pedigrees we find Grand 

 Dukes 7th, 19th, 21st, 22nd, 25th, 27th, 30th, and 33rd, appear 

 amongst the sires, and in addition Cherry Grand Duke 4th 30712, 

 also from Sholebioke, was one of the earlier sires. In late years Mr. 

 Sharpley has bought Fordham Duke of Oxford 4th 41569, long 

 used at Waulby ; and Knight of Worcester 3rd 40581, a dark roan 

 heavy fleshed bull, wonderfully wide in front, and squarely built, 

 was purchased at the Hindlip sale, where he was greatly admired, 

 previously he had been let out on hire at Holker. The Grwynnes at 

 the end of the past year numbered eight and twenty females, the 

 name of Piincess Grwynne having been appropiiated for the younger 

 members of the family. It is early morn when we go foith to see 

 the herd, as the ten o'clock train has to be caught from Barnetby to 

 Melton Ross. Quite a number of the animals are in the pasture 

 near the house, and the Grwynnes are here numerously represented. 

 The first on turn is Cherry Duchess 29th, the oldir sister of a pair of 

 this ttibe possessed by Mr. Sharpley, out of Cherry Duchess 21st, 

 bought as a calf at Wicken Park. Princess Gwynne 9th, is a good 

 cow full of character, the Twentieth, by Grand Duke of Waterloo 

 44897, minus the dash of Booth caused several generations ago by 

 Duke of Leinster 17724. is not so neat as the Twenty-fourth, one of 

 five sisters from the Fourth, which although not in high condition, 

 has the straight outline of a good heifer, and the Twenty-second is 

 also thick and good. In the buildings are a red and white Blanche, 

 an excellent dairy cow; Princess Grwynne 10th, a fine looking deep 

 bodied daughter of one of the Grand Dukes ; Dainty Darling, a 

 handsome large framed white, bred by Mr. A. Crane, in Kansas, of 

 the Duchess Nancy tribe, from which sort Mr. Sharpley bred his 

 prize bull Duke of Grenoa 33746, Champion male at the Yorkshire in 

 1873. Thorndale Rose 32nd, a dark roan heifer was bought at Audley 

 End, a year ago, and by the addition of Thorndale Rose 33rd, 

 a few days later at East Donyland, it is evidently intended to make 

 them a leading tribe at Limber Magna, certainly for their wonder- 



