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Before reaching Birmingham, by alighting at Acocks Green, we 

 have the nearest railway station to Fox Hollies Hull, the residence 

 of Mr. Z. Walker, where on his adjoining farms, that gentleman has 

 long bied pedigree cattle, his first collection selected from Mr. Jonas 

 Webb's and other good old herds was dispersed by Mr. Strafford in 

 August, 1873. During the past few years, a second herd has been 

 gathered together under the management of Mr. Walker's son, and 

 Duke of Oxford 75th 52772, a very promising roan son of Grand 

 Duke 4Gth 49671, and Grand Duchess of Oxford 32nd, of the 

 purest line of the Holker Oxfords, is now in service, and shows 

 every prospect of growing into a stylish Bates bull, equal to his high 

 breeding. Out of half-a-dozen cows gathered together, Charming 

 Duchess 31st, from Brailes, is the first to hand, then we have 

 Raspberry, bred by the late Mr. W. T. Carrington, which is con- 

 sidered the best in the field. Milcote Sweetheart, is a combination 

 of the blood of the two famous Warwickshire homes of the Knightleys, 

 being bred at Milcote, and by Mr. Sheldon's Lord Garland 7th 

 43511. As we make for the entrance into the next enclosure we see 

 Pride of Geneva, of the old Broadmoor Pye family, taking shelter 

 under the fence, and when finding the heifers in the adjoining 

 pasture, they are doing likewise from the pitiless storm, and we 

 must say they augur well for the second herd, a heavy fleshed white 

 out of Duchess of York 3rd, is our favourite, and of the remaining 

 five composed, of three Sweethearts, a Pye, and a daughter of Norah, 

 bought at the Stoney Lane sale of 1878. we prefer the last named, 

 and Sweetmeat, out of Milcote Sweetheart. When the Hyron Hall 

 homestead is reached, a handsome roan cow at once attracts our 

 attention, and is found to be Wedding Gwynne, of Mr. Bassett's 

 breeding. Princess Norah, half sister to the good heifer in the 

 pasture, has the curiously named Quality Fogg 35194, for sire. 

 At these buildings we have Marguerite, and Duchess of York 3rd, 

 the latter a particularly large framed fine cow, purchased from Mr. 

 T. Harris. Lastly, in the byre behind Mr. Walker's residence, we 

 have Bushbury Premium 2nd, and Zazel 2nd, the latter of the Old 

 Daisy tribe, and both obtained at the Low Hill sale, and Countess. 



