224 SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENUL.YXI). 



cost upwards of 20gs. each, and Mr. John Darling's prize pen, and 

 the choice pen from The Oaklands, have been added to the flock 

 during the past season, Miss Graham, whose special property they 

 are, sparing no expense to obtain the best, and although not 

 exhibited for honours are as well known as the herd, but the stud 

 has obtained the highest fame, and Sterling, bred by the Messrs. 

 Graham, being the grandest specimen of a sound weight carrying 

 thoroughbred sire in the world, in his first season at the stud, out of 

 Isola Bella, he begat Isonomy, one of the garnest, stoutest, and best 

 animals ever known on the British turf ; the success of Sterling has 

 been very great, and it is considered by his owners that time will prove 

 this branch of the Birdcatcher strain to ba the most valuable in 

 existence. 



CHAPTER IX. 



The Warwickshire Herds (continued). The Wolds. Church Lawford 

 Lodge. Thurlaston. Northamptonshire Herds. Whittlebury. 

 Rothersthorps. Cottesbroke. Overstone Park. Broughton. 

 Kettering. Clapton. Rushdtn, Stanwlck. The Grange. - 

 Thenford. East Haddon. Leicestershire Herds. Calthorpe Towers. 

 Thurniaston. Bar don Hill. Bean Manor. MapleweU. Rutland 

 Herds. Burghlei/. Extern.- Whitwell. 



The village of Snitterfield has long been associated with pedigree 

 cattle, both the names of Mr. S. Canning, and Mr. C. M. Hamer, 

 having been connected with it as well as that of Mr. C. C. Garner, 

 whose herd we have the pleasure of visiting a few weeks previous to 

 its dispersion, which is to take place owing to the giving up of his 

 several farms. Although the Knightley blood, as in many of tru^ 

 large herds of the County predominates amongst the females, the 

 males for many years were of fashionable Bates 'families, until Royal 



