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us of the tueii palmy days, but perhaps the owner is right in 

 attaching high value to the tribe, as the Barringtons have certainly 

 not only left their mark at Brailes, but elsewhere, which induced 

 Mr. Sheldon to purchase another branch, descended from Mr. 

 Phillips' Lady Barrington 2nd, by the Eoyal winner Weathercock 

 9815, but little heard of for a quarter of a century, having been bred 

 quietly by the Messrs. Horswell, in Devonshire. In 1884, when the 

 Misses Barnttt sent the larger portion of their herd to be sold at 

 Chipping Norton, three animals found their way here, and have 

 since been very prolific in adding four females, and two males. 

 Duchess of Graddesby 2nd, one of the original purchases, is an 

 extremely pretty cow, and a very good bull from her was purchased 

 for Belgium last March, while Duchess of Barrington 7th, is equally 

 as good a female. 



The Charmers, twenty seven in all, are the most numerous, and 

 form quite a herd of themselves. The grand cows formerly to be 

 seen at Milcote, and Wateringbury, gave the family a reputation, 

 which has been well maintained by Mr. Sheldon, who is justly proud 

 of his Charmers with the exception of five, all trace to the well 

 known Twin Duchesses, and Choruses, daughters of Fourth Duke of 

 Thorndale, and Charming and the way they have been bred, 

 as he considers that they are superior in breeding to many of the 

 more fashionable families ; they are descended from a cow by Hubback 

 319, and the pedigree may certainly be said to b'3 one of the most 

 ancient in descent, and purest in existence. The matron, Charming 

 Duchess 7th, by Duke of Barrington 6th 33576, from Twin Duchess 

 3rd, has bred eight calves in ten years ; her daughters, the Sixteenth, 

 Forty-first, and Forty-third, being seen in the pastures, and the 

 Sixteenth, by Duke of Kothesay 36534, a lengthy deep bodied cow, 

 standing near to the ground, is following the good example of her 

 dam by having six calves in seven years ; the two last being a promising 

 pair of red twins, Dukes of Charmingland, Forty-third, and Forty- 

 fourth, entered for the October sale at Bingley Hall. Charming 

 Duchess 9th, with Duke of Connaught for sire, is a beautiful white, 

 with a particularly attractive head and horn, and it seems a pity to 



