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estate at Stamineihain be^ng in the market was purchased. It is Mr. 

 Allender's intention, not as might be supposed to make this entirely 

 a source of milk supply for the London depot, but to utilise the 

 greater portion of it in rearing pure bred stock of every description ; 

 aheady six breeds of cattle have been collected together, in addition 

 to the sheep, horses, pigs, and numerous sorts of poultry. 



The home buildings, as those may be called situate behind 

 Mr. Allender's residence, have been completely remodelled, and 

 rebuilt, and in the course of a year or two it is intended to do this 

 with all the buildings. Every advantage is taken of the largeness 

 of the undei taking, and contracts are naturally entered into for the 

 various supplies with many advantages over those of the ordinary 

 tenant farmer. A timekeeper, and clerk, are necessities with so 

 much on hand ; at present a clerk of works is superintending the 

 building operations, and the many alterations to fences, and new 

 drinking ponds. At the Home buildings, the seven stud bulls are 

 kept in excellent substantial boxes, with a good sized yard for every 

 three, so that the occupants can be let out in turn for additional 

 exercise, dumber one is a Swiss bull purchased from Professor 

 Long. Linley, a two year old son of Beecher, and Dolly, does duty 

 for the Montgomeryshire females. Zulu, and Gilderoy, the former 

 out of Lilian, a cow that gave 679 gallons of milk in 30 weeks ; and 

 the latter a son of Dairy Pride 4th, is a large animal of his breed, 

 with gie.it substance. The Kerries, have a sire of each of their 

 two colours ; and the shorthorns, have Sir Kainald 52171. a straight 

 level bull, bred by the Exors. of Mr. E. Pease, and a great grand- 

 son of the Eev. J. Storer's Fawsley Violet, of the Knightley Quickly 

 tribe. A covered shed, one hundred and twenty feet long, and 

 sixty in width, with its glass roof, can be seen for miles. In the 

 numerous divisions, we find several of the recent shorthorn purchases, 

 not many sales have supplied them, and the herds at Dingley 

 Griange, North Frith, and Stoney Lane, were those resorted to. 

 Dingley Blanche, and Dolly Vaiden, are together, the latter being 

 extremely pretty and the former of the Vestris tribe, which passed 

 through the Townley heid in its palmy days. Next we have a 



