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sire, named Lady Brailes, born in 1872, and so rapid was the increase 

 of the females descended fioin this calf that Lady Biailes 22nd, was 

 registered in Vol. 31, while the descendants of the daughters of the 

 original purchase were named Forniosas. In 1 876, another addition 

 in the shape of a Primrose heifer, Lady Edith 2nd, was bought at 

 "Wicken Park for 265gs., likewise having the Duke cf Brailes for 

 grandsire, she is still seen in Mr. Nicholls' possession, and her oldest 

 daughter, by Duke of Wellington 9th, bears her company, but the 

 handsomest in the pasture and the herd, is Lady Brailes 5th, also by 

 the Penryhn Waterloo bull, out of a daughter of Lady Brailes, 

 several other capital specimens combining both flesh and milk, are 

 seen, and with judicious selection of sires, a grand herd of serviceable 

 cattle doing honour to the Knightley strain of blood, and to the 

 shorthorn breed of cattle, will be established at The Grange. In 

 the early days of the herd, the cows were sent over to Kiinbolton 

 and Rush den for service; Duke of Wellington 9th 33754, bred at 

 Pen thy n Castle, was purchased in 1875, and Lord Clarence Waterloo 

 36926, at the Rushden sale, afterwards Lord of the Grange, by 

 Lord Bective's Grand Duke of Morcambe 36722, from Lady Brailes, 

 and his son Harold 44921, out of his half sister, followed each other^ 

 so Mr. Nicholls is evidently a believer in close breeding, when it is 

 remembered that Lady Brailes, the dam and grand-dam, had Duke 

 of Brailes for sire and grand-sire. 



The most southern herd in the county is that belonging to 

 Mr. W. Hawkes, at Thenford, five miles from Banbury, but- 

 Farthinghoe is the nearest station, and within a mile of the farm, to 

 which a pleasant walk along a shady avenue of limes soon brings us. 

 Mr. Hawkes has been a breeder since 1858, when a cow named 

 Harmless, by Mr. Lovell's Risby 35276, was bought from his 

 landloid, Mr. Severn, who had used pedigree bulls for many years 

 previously, and with this cow the foundation was begun of a family 

 still afc Thenford, and continued for a time with sires of Mr. 

 Faulkner's breeding, followed by five from Aylesby, two of which 

 unfortunately failed to be stock getters, and Heir of Lome 36761 

 (a sou of High Sheriff 26392), Harper 38407, Sir Swithin 40822, 



