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herd than has ever been seen here before, when the materials now 

 collected together, have been a short time in the hands of so ex- 

 perienced and successful a breeder. 



Not far distant from Rushden Hall is Stanwick, and here Mr. 

 J. R. Crawley has a small herd containing five lines of blood to 

 which he has used Bates and Knightley sires. The first purchase 

 was made at the dispersion of the late Mr. Rowland Wood's herd in 

 1875, when Duchess of Harrington, descended from Mr. Dudding's 

 Dorcas, by Earl Stanhope 5966, of good old Lincolnshire strains, 

 which afterwards passed into the hands of Mr. R. Searson of 

 Market Deeping, for whom the family won several prizes. Mr. 

 Crawley's purchase had Duke of Barrington oth 21588 for her sire, 

 and after the use of Waterloo Duke 40893, Lord Shipston 2nd 45261, 

 and Lord of the Grange 43553, of Sir Charles Knight-ley's Walnut 

 tribe, bought from his neighbour, Mr. T. Nichols, Mr. Crawley 

 afterwards bought a highly bred Barrington bull Grand Duke of 

 Barrington 1st 46442 from Mr. H. Lovatt, thus re-introducing 

 this popular tribe in his herd, then mainly composed of the daughters 

 and grand-daughters of his Clapton purchase, she having now bred 

 eight heifers to one bull, and at present is hoped to be in the right 

 way for producing a " tenth " calf. Mr. W . Faulkner's Rothersthorpe 

 herd supplied a very nice cow in Fair Maid, of the F. tribe, already 

 noticed in the mention of his cattle, she has left two daughters at 

 Stanwick, and the same number have been produced by an excellent 

 dairy cow, Superb Ruby 4th, bred by Mr. W. Lavender. A well 

 bred Revelry formerly popular at Dunmore and Underley has 

 had a couple of bulls, and the latest purchase, Rose of Hilden, of 

 the once fashionable Rosys, supposed to be in calf when purchased, 

 has not yet added to the Stanwick herd, to which Rowfant Wild 

 Duke 52016, bred by the late Sir C. M. Lampson, of the Holker 

 Winsome branch of the Wild Eyes tribe, is being used. 



Mr. T. Nichols, at The Grange, RauiuU, has raised quite an 

 extensive herd of the Knightley blood, from two animals, viz: 

 Formosa, bred by Mr. H. J. Sheldon, and by his Duke of Brailes 

 23724, her first produce at The Grange, was a red heifer to her own 



