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and since, nothing but Duke sires have reigned at Wateringbury ; 

 viz., Grand Duke 15th 21852, Grand Duke of Kent 26289 (a son 

 of Grand Duchess 9th bought at Preston Hall), Eighth Duke of 

 Geneva 28390 (the highest priced bull ever sold when purchased at 

 Winterfuld in 1872), Sixth Duke of Oneida 30997 (bred by Messrs. 

 Walcott and Campbell, out of Lord Bective's Tenth Duchess of 

 Geneva), Sixth Duke of Glo'ster 39734, and Rowfant Duke of 

 Glo'ster 2nd 48610. It was in 1867 that Mr. Leney began to add 

 animals of Kiiklevington blood to his herd; Grand Duchess 9th 

 came from the sale at Preston Hall, but only bred two lulls ; and 

 in November, when Mr. J. O. Sheldon's nine animals from Geneva 

 were sold by Mr. Strafford in the Windsor coffee-room, Mr. Leney 

 claimed a third of the number, including the Duchess heifer at 

 700gs., considered at the time a high price, but her buyer had the 

 satisfaction of selling two of her granddaughters for two thousand 

 each, one at his sale of 1874, when the average of .221 was 

 obtained for forty-one lots, the highest of any of the Wateringbury 

 sales, and the other by private treaty, but both found one purchaser 

 in Mr. R. Loder. 



Although when Grand Duchess of Geneva 7th was sold two 

 years ago for llOOgs. to Dr. Frias, of Buenos Ay res, the last of the 

 Windsor heifer's descendants departed, yet at the Hindlip sale an 

 Airdrie Duchess young cow of nice character was obtained in 

 Duchess of Hindlip 4th. In another division of the barn occupied 

 by the Duchess is the heavy fleshed Grand Duchess of Oxford 33id, 

 bought at Underley last autumn. Passing on to the orchard, 

 Rowfant Duke of Glo'ster 2nd, the lengthy masculine red son of 

 Marquis of Oxford 2nd 37055, and Duchess of Glo'ster, is led 

 forth from his quarters. In the apple orchard are seen two Surmise 

 and Charmer heifers, before reaching a further one where the older 

 cows are found. Tacita 4th, a grand old cow, sixteen years old in 

 Decamber, still keeps her frame well together ; Lady Rose, bred at 

 Gaddesby, appears likely to keep up the reputation of the Prin- 

 cesses for their dairy properties, as will Countess 5th, a daughter of 

 Chorus, that of the Knightleys. Beaming Eyes 5th, from Castle 



