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animals are coming forward for future victories. Melton Flirt, a 

 daughter of Lord Lathom's Baron Aston 37770, and Queen Dodoua, 

 one of the first brought forth, is already favourably known to the 

 public with her grand forequarters, and excellent touch. This 

 family was obtained by the purchase of Young May Flower, the 

 grand-darn of Melton Flirt, from Mr. H. Webb, she being a daughter 

 of May Flower, the foundation of the Streetly Hall herd in 1856, 

 which was bred by Mr. Jonas Webb, at B.ibrahain, and a grand- 

 daughter of Dodona. purchased by him from Earl Spenccer in 1838. 

 Clayden Rose, Lady le Harrington, and Nancy Lee, half sisters, from 

 Lady of the Lea, have also the old Babraham blood in their veins. 

 The best of the three is Nancy Lee, a nice shott legged cow, winner 

 of several prizes in her younger days, and the mother of a grand 

 two year old heifer. Clay den Hose, appears very good at the pail, 

 and Lady le Barrington, will with Laura, a daughter of Nancy Lee's, 

 and Lady Alice, a Cold Cream bred at Ulceby Grange, join the old 

 bull at Streetly Hall. The fashionable Wild Eyes tribe is represented 

 by Wild Countess, a capital ribbed lengthy daughter of Wild Eyes 

 37th, with much the graceful style of her dam now in the Wetherby 

 herd. Melton Wild Eyes, her own sister, is in company with 

 Melton Waterloo, of the Thicket Priory branch, suckling a red bull 

 calf by Duke of Walton 51154, a Knightly Walnut bull, bought at 

 Cockfield Hall, out of that grand cow Tsolt, afterwards seen in the 

 Babingley herd at Sandringham. In the adjoining yard is Beverley 

 Duchess 30th, a pretty daughter of Lord Wildrake 45175, having 

 by her side a red cow calf, since placed second at the Yorkshire 

 Meeting at Sheffield. In the Park we have a remarkably fine short 

 legged cow in Lady Bracelet 2nd, of the sort well known at 

 Sholebroke, and now at Preston Hall, which with the handsome 

 Vocalist, of the Seraphina tribe, so successfully exhibited when in 

 Mr. Chalk's possession, are a pair of cows of which any owner may 

 be justly proud. 



A thirty miles run from Ulceby Junction brings us to Louth, 

 and to Tathwell Hall, four miles distant, Mr. R. Botterill, one of 

 the leading breeders of shorthorns and thoroughbreds in the East of 



