230 S1IOHTIIORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 



47619, one of the progeny of Duke of Connaught; and at present, 

 Grand Gwynne 15th, a red and white, bred by Col. Webb, is doing 

 duty in Mr. Sharp's extensive herd of over 100 head. 



Instead of proceeding immediately to Broughton, we are driven 

 to some distant fields to see the heifers, and in the first group of 

 ten, all by Oxford Rose 3rd, one or two of the Julias are particularly 

 noticeable for their neat well laid shoulders, which the owner 

 remarks have been a special characteristic of the family since he has 

 had them. The most prominent in the next pasture is again a Julia. 

 and a pair of twin Craggs cows that bear her company descend 

 through Princess Joan, bought at the first of the Gaddesby sales. 

 We find at the buildings that the show "team " are not to arrive till 

 late, consequently they cannot be seen until the morning, but 

 two more grand groups of heifers and young cows, are looking 

 remarkably well, and when such animals as May Duchess loth, who 

 can win both at the Bath and West, and at the Dairy Show, where 

 at the latter she was not only first in her class, but the Champion of 

 all breeds ; Julia 14th, and Blanche Duchess 4th, second at the recent 

 meeting at Maidstone for the best pair of dairy cows ; and the fine 

 old May Duchess 14th, the matron of one of Mr. Sharpe's family 

 groups, it is needless to write of the merits of the other elder dames 

 after mentioning such well known animals, and the progeny of May 

 Duchess 14th, and Julia 14th, are too well known in the various 

 showy ards to need further mention. 



Mr. C. Bayes has his residence on the outskirts of the town of 

 Kettering, and his pastures just reaching the farm yard, stretch 

 away to the Eailway, and contiguous thereto are fourteen very useful 

 dairy cows. Chaff 10th, by the prize bull Satan 27430 (used by 

 Mr. Bayes), out of Chaff 9th, bred at Kingscote, is the first noticed, 

 then Virginia, a Grand Duke of Darlington cow, and one of the 

 best of the fourteen, passes before us, the family were obtained in 

 Lincolnshire, from Mr. Smith, of West Rasen, about 1862, and 

 Virgin, another of the same sort milking heavily. Harmony, and 

 Ruth, half sisters, by Mr. G. Graham's Lord Loftus 43537, are 



