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of the others are found at Cauley. Since the sale of the larger 

 portion of the herd in 1877, the purchases have inclined to be of 

 inoie fashionable lineage, than the OLiginal families, and as cream 

 cheese is still made, and sent round once a week to the neighbour- 

 ing towns of Coventry, Wai-wick, and Leamington, the dairy is the 

 principal item in the system of fanning carried on by Mr. Hands, 

 and the cows for supplying it must have first notice; some animal 

 appeals inoie attractive than the others in every group, and here it is 

 Miss Hilda, a handsome Bell-Bates cow, possessing a shapely udder, 

 with every appearance of a good flow of milk issuing therefiom : 

 and another capital uddered co\v is Canley Grwynne, by a prize 

 Kirklevington bull of Mr. Green's, used for some time in the herd. 

 Countess of Clarence 3rd, a Lily Bell, of unsullied descent, is not 

 of laige mould, but good at the pail, as are also the Miss Pearls, and 

 Lavenders, as in bygone days ; one of the former, a fine shorthorn 

 like cow is somewhat of a curiosity, having been born minus natme's 

 natural appendage The Statiras, full of good blood, are represented 

 by two sisteis daughters of Kirklevington Lord, as well as one or 

 two younger heifeis, the latter are seen in several small groups, in 

 one of which Miss Pearls, 4*>rid, and 43rd, daughters of Viscount 

 Bates (a son of Oxford, and Lily Bell parents), are a pair of very 

 useful heifers, while Countess Nancy 4th, and Dowager Winsome 

 Duchess, both by the Holker Baron Winsome 10th, have five excel- 

 lent crosses on Mr. Barber's Duchess 1st, and in another pasture is 

 the latter's half sister, Dowager Waterloo Duchess, by Mr. Lloyd's 

 Waterloo Count, along with Lavender 16th, likely for keeping up 

 the reputation of the old sort. 



The most fashionable bred animals are only calves under a 

 year, a pretty little Kirklevington Duchess fiom East Donyland is 

 not so w r ell grown as might be wished, but the fact of her being 

 "pure" makes her very attractive to an American friend who 

 accompanies UF, and as highly bred, if not so fashionable in the 

 open market, is a red and white Puschia. by Duke of Somerset, 

 from Conishead Fuschia, out of one of the high priced cows at 

 Dunmore in 1875; then last \ve have a roan Craggs, very promising, 



