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down sheep to flockmasters. Certainly Mr. Ellis deserves every 

 praise for the unsparing hand with which he pruned his herd twelve 

 months ago, and may he reap the benefit of it in years to come. On 

 walking over the 400 acres farmed by Mr. Ellis, it is shown no man 

 knows better the value of having everything of:' the best in each 

 department than Mr. Ellis. 



We find the Fidget, and Craggs tribes the strongest in point of 

 numbers, but 'tis the former which enjoy most favour, as this is the 

 only herd where pure English bred Fidgets are to be found, they 

 are deserving of more than ordinary mention : like the Craggs, and 

 Kirklevingtons, they were formerly bred by the Messrs. Bell, and 

 crossed with Mr. Bates'bulls, when the brothers left the neighbourhood 

 of Kirklevington, we find Eidget's daughter, Faith, by 4th Duke of 

 Northumberland, goes to Mosbro' Hall with Mr. Robert, and Mr. 

 Thomas, takes Eidget 2nd, by the famous .Duke of Northumberland, 

 both bred to 4th Duke of York, and Erantic, and Fidget 4th, were 

 the result ; from these two animals, almost own sisters in blood, Mr. 

 Ellis has eleven female descendants. Erantic, went to the States, 

 and her daughter, Frantic 4th, by Duke of Oxford 33703, had two 

 heifers, Fidelitys, Second, and Third, by Millbrooke 34851, a son of 

 Sixth Duke of Thorndale, and Lady Susan, a grand-daughter of Red 

 Rose 2nd, bred by Mr. Stephenson, of Wolviston, of his favourite 

 Princess tribe ; both sisters were imported into this country by Mr. 

 R. Gribson in 1873, and found eventually their way into Mr. Botterill's 

 possession, but it is only from the elder there are living descendants. 

 At Mr. Botterill's sale the} were purchased by Mr. W. Ashburrer, 

 from whom Mr. Ellis obtained them. Lady Fidget Bates 3rd, by 

 Col. Townley's Oxford le Grand, out of the imported cow, is the 

 dam of four daughters in the herd, between herself and the second 

 one, a wonderful family likeness exists, even as to colour, they aie 

 two cows of excellent style, and character, the daughter being a shade 

 neater, but her elder own sister, Lady Fidget Bates 5th, by 4th 

 Fordham Duke of Oxford, is a very neatly made gay looking young 

 cow, in her prime of life, of a most attractive light roan, evidently 

 she has taken at the sire, and the younger more at the dam ; it is 



