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is a deep wealthy heifer. The descendants of Duchess Gwynne 4th 

 did not suffer any loss in their numbers by the sale two years ago; 

 Grand Duchess Gwynne 3rd, stands near to the ground, and is 

 like her daughter, Grand Duchess Gwynne 4th, compactly put 

 together, and the latter especially has abundance of grand hair. 

 Turning to the Rosys, Treble Fawsley has bred a calf every year, and 

 is now almost thirteen years old : the last is a good coloured bull, 

 and previously, Duchess Fawsley llth, seen amongst the heifers: 

 but as the family contributed nearly a third of the females to Mr. 

 Loder's sale, we cannot expect to see them in their old abundance. 

 Minnie 9th, imported from Kentucky by Sir Curtis Lampson, has 

 been a most beautiful cow in her younger days, and a grand-daughter, 

 Red Rose of Whittlebury 7th, so far as colour is concerned, is very 

 similar in her markings, and in addition to the dam, we see the aged 

 Red Rose of Killiecrankie, bred at Dunmore from an imported cow, 

 and by an imported sire, as well as a heifer from her known as 

 Red Rose of Whittlebury 6th. 



At Rothersthorpe, two miles from the well known junction at 

 Blisworth, a herd of pedigree cattle was founded over sixty years 

 ago by the father of the present owner, Mr. W. Faulkner, and 

 during that long period only two sales have been held, one in 1848, 

 the first season of the late Mr. Strafford's career as a Shorthorn 

 auctioneer, being composed of 16 females offered after Sir G. 

 Knightley's bull sale held at Weedon, and the other in 1873, when 

 between forty and fifty pounds each was made of a selection of thirty- 

 three head. The herd has been carefully bred from the old sorts so 

 long on the farm, and crossed of late years with Booth bulls, one of 

 the first being Knight of Branches 20076, a son of Lady Grandison 

 of the Bliss tribe; while Royalty 35412, Athelstane 23331, Fair 

 Thane 31127, Earl of Aylesby 2nd 39813, and Baron Dereham 

 49066, bred by Messrs. Pawlett, Torr, Ackers, and Aylrner, have 

 been amongst the more recent ones, and the last-named, the joint 

 property of Mr. W. Hawkes and Mr. Faulkner, is now seen afc 

 Rothersthorpe, as well as a deep red yearling, Sir Kenneth 53679, 

 hired from Mr. G. Britten, bred by Mr. Welsted, and a son of the 



