>> SHORTHORN HKRDS OF ENGLAND. 



On arriving at Grant bam, Mr. Charles Lynn awaits us with a 

 smart grey cob addicted to occasional shying, which makes our 

 journey to Stroxton far from monotonous ; before reaching the house, 

 several fine fields of grain, looking all that could be desired, are 

 shewn us as appuitenant to Chinch Faim, in fact, excepting cart 

 horses, everything on the premises, down to the poultry department 

 have their ancestors recorded, and recently Mr. Lynn has gone in 

 for growing both pedigree wheat and barley on a large scale. The 

 foundation of the shorthorn herd was laid between 40 and 50 years 

 ago by Mr. Lynn's grandfather, but none of the tribes in the first 

 herd are in the present one ; when Mr. John Lynn, the father of the 

 present owner came into possession about the year l^OO, he 

 retained, amongst others, representatives of Earl Brownlow's Gorilla, 

 and Priscilla families, and the Clementina branch of Mr. Booth's 

 Eame tribe, but these too h ive all departed, dispersed by the hammer 

 of 'Sir. Strafford in 1870, along with two or three more fashionable 

 sorts; a few animals retained, with pinchases made at Gaddesby, 

 and one or two other sales, are the present occupants of the pastures 

 at Stroxton, and it is the intention of Mr. Charles Lynn to confine 

 himself to the four tribes he now possesses, viz: Cambridge Roses 

 (Thorndale Rose, and lied Rose branches), the Queens, from Mr. 

 Robinson's, of Clifton Pastures, Sir Charles Knightley's Walnuts, 

 and the Lady Spencers, tracing to Mr. Mason's Xo. 55. 



In the first paddock we have only the favourite Cambridge 

 Roses, the home bred ones deserve notice first on account of the 

 length of time they have grazed at Stroxton; as far back as l 1 ^;^. 

 Red Rose 5th, was purchased privately along with Cambridge Duke 

 4th 25706, of the same tribe from Mr. Charles Leney a brother of 

 the better known " Frederick " the latter proved an effective sire, 

 and was used many years by his new owner, while the former has five 

 female representatives in the herd and Cambridge Dukes from No.'s 5 

 to 22 have been brought into the world at Stroxton from this cow 

 and her descendants. Red Rose 5th, was a cow greatly admired 

 and coveted by many gentlemen, when 2,000gs. was bid for her, 

 Mr. Lynn declared he would never part with her ; at one time, the 



