1:4') SHORTHOKX HERDS OF KNGLAXD. 



ind with the breed of sheep for which tli3 coinitv has bien so 

 famous amongst flockmasters. Naturally dairying has been the 

 principal object of Mr. Allen with the fast increasing county town 

 in such near proximity to his estate, and in the present herd the 

 Kiiightley blood predominates, while it is intended t^ use the home 

 bred Duke of Oxford Charmer, a promising well fleshed yearling, 

 th'3 result of sending the Sweetheart cow, Sybil 3rd, to Duke of 

 Oxford 47th, at Beau Manor, the dam tracing to the branch 

 which passed through Mr. Gr. M. Tracy's possession, and which 

 were sold at Edenbiidge in 1870 at an average of ,96. The sire 

 recently in use has been Baron Minstrel 3rd 49083. and as his name 

 betokens h? is of the Minstrel branch of the Gwynnes popular in the 

 North as a milking family and bred by Mr. Gr. Ashburner, out of 

 a handsome red cow, one of the best in his large herd. The short- 

 horns we see at Thurmaston Lodge have been gathered together 

 since the dispersion of a previous herd in 1874, and have been 

 selected from the stocks of Messrs. E. H. Cheney, T. H. Bland, 

 R. Bottereill, and the Rev. C. Marshall. Our attention is chiefly 

 directed to the 27 dairy cows, both with and without pedigrees, and 

 somewhat grievous to say, a beautiful white, which has come out of 

 Lincolnshire, beats the herd book cattle, for good looks and useful- 

 ness combined, but still we have the consolation of considering that 

 nothing but shorthorn blood could have produced the picture before 

 us, and that if her ancestors had been carefully recorded, we should 

 probably find her, and many other good cows, with pedigrees as 

 good as a great many animals which are found in Coates'. Empress 

 of Milcote, bred at what may be termed the home of the Didos, 

 does not disgrace the old sort, neither does Sibyl 3rd, bred by Mr. 

 R. Betts, who purchased her grandam at Edenbridge,the Sweethearts. 

 Rosa, an aged white, with a well filled udder, is of the same 

 foundation as the Ribys, but lacks the passing through the 

 hands of Mr. Torr, of Aylesby, to render her fashionable by 

 receiving top crosses of Warlaby blood, yet somewhat noteworthy 

 although hailing from Ripley Court, her sire is King Tom 31521, a 

 son of Lord Blithe, and Millicent. Lady Hylda 4th, of the Furbe- 



