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are the Jerseys, originally bred by him before being parted with to 

 the Company, and which have been very successful in the showy ard. 

 On returning homewards, are seen the pretty Kernes, browsing on 

 the hill sides, on the higher lying portion of the estate. As to the 

 hitherto unmentioned pigs, the Tamworths, are highly thought of by 

 Mr. Allender, and considered quite the coming breed. 



CHAPTEE VIII. 



The Surrey Herds. Summersbury Hall. Harewoods. Xorbury 

 Park. Buckinghamshire Herds. Terrick. Walton Grange. Tile 

 House. Warwickshire Herds. Canley. Berkswell Hall. Whoberley 

 Hall. The Hollies. Ashorne Hill. Alveston Pasture. Stoney 

 Thorpe. Brailes House. Weston Park. Studley Castle. Fox 

 Hollies Hall The Oaklands.Yardley. 



Surrey is proverbially a charming residental county, and 

 Summersbury Hall, Mr. Edwin Ellis' country seat, is delightfully 

 situate amidst the sylvan scenery of the Surrey Hills, three miles 

 from the old coaching town of G-uildford. Shorthorns, were only 

 introduced to Summersbury at the sale of the first portion of Mr. 

 E. C. Tisdall's herd in 1882 ; shortly afterwards, a number of other 

 purchases, chiefly good animals, without any pretensions to high 

 breeding were made. In May of last year, Mr. Ellis adopted the 

 extremely wise plan of effecting a general clearance of all his 

 miscellaneous pedigrees, only one being uncatalogued. He has now 

 gathered together a thoroughly good Bates herd in an incredible 

 short space of time, and it requires but the use of high class bulls 

 to make the Summersbury herd, and its enterprising owner, as well 

 known to shorthorn breeders, as he has already made the South- 



