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Duchess of Laughton 3rd, the result of a Lily Bell cross, considered 

 one of the best dairy cows in the herd, and the mother of an 

 especially good bull. Laughton Duke 4th, purchased by Mr. John 

 Thompson for the use of the Duke of Beaufort's tenantry. 

 Coining to one of Mr. Cass well's numerous sets of farm buildings, 

 we have Heydon Duke 17th. a yearling son of Duke of Hindlip 2nd 

 46246, and Mr. H. Leney's beautiful Heydon Eose 9th, bought as 

 a, calf at Audley End, and intended for the successor of Cambridge 

 Duke 15th ; with such a mother, and so good an individual animal, 

 no harm can result from a second cross of the same line of 

 blood. Duchess of Kent 2nd, and Duchess of Cambridge 2nd, two 

 aged Lady Walton cows, are good at the pail, especially the former, 

 and there are also several good Charmer, and Walnut cows. 

 Going further afield, we come to a fen farm occupied by Mr. 

 Casswell, where are his yearling heifers, a splendid array of reds 

 and roans ; all are by the Cambridge Eose bull, excepting Waterloo 

 of Yoi-k 3rd, the calf bought at the Osgodby sale, whence came 

 another young Waterloo cow. 



Many who had never found their way into Norfolk to visit the 

 Bates and Booth herds possessed by the popular Heir Apparent, 

 and kept some three miles apart at the Wolferton and Babingloy 

 farms on his S.indringhim estate, no doubt like ourselves took 

 advantage of the "double event" which occurred in the county in 

 July, and on the Thursday of the "Boyal" week made their 

 appearance at Wolferton Station, to attend the successful sale held 

 on the Home Farm at Sandringham, resulting in an average of 

 <50 for the sixty-nine animals, which passed through the ring in 

 the presence of His Eoyal Highness, the Princess of Wales, and 

 their three daughters, as well as the leading breeders and agricul- 

 turists of the county, in addition to the foreign representatives 

 who secured several lots. It was a brilliant success, the vast 

 assemblage surrounding the enclosure giving their bids with a 

 heartiness that augurs well for the future of shorthorn breeding. 

 Sir Charles Knightley's blood has largely preponderated in both 

 herds in the past, and especially famous have been the Booth 



