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the pedigree cattle, but many of the latter have been sent over to 

 the Oxford bull at Beau Manor. Two calves seen under cover are 

 from the Placi*, and Red Rose cow, the former is very pretty, and of 

 a taking colour. The heifers comprise the truly made Countess 

 Lucy, out of Countess 6th, considered the best of the group ; 

 Countess of Paris, bought at Dingley Grange, and by the Grand 

 Duke of Waterloo 34077 : and last but not least impoi tant is Duchess 

 Carolina 5th, a well bred Craggs, fiorn Mr. Fisher's. 



When Mr. Humphreys took over the management of the Beau 

 Manor Estate in 1850, he found Bess, said to have been bought by 

 Mr. Dawson, Whatton House, Loughborough, from Mr. Parkinson, 

 of Ley Fields, and afterwards purchased by Mr. Herrick at the 

 Whatton sale. Mr. Humphreys never saw anv pedigree belonging 

 to her, but she was undeniably a thoroughly well bred animal ; she 

 bred at Bsau Manor a cow calf (also called Bess) by a bull bred by 

 Lord Howe, of Gopsall, and understood by Mr. Humphreys to have 

 been by 2nd Duke of Oxford 9046 ; from this origin the Bess tribe 

 of the Beau Manor herd are descended, and during the period of 36 

 years which has elapsed since that dite, he has reared a most 

 numerous family of useful large-framed dairy-like cattle for Mrs. 

 Perry-Herrick, the present owner, although occasionally the name 

 of Bess has been substituted by some other, but in late years all the 

 female produce have had numerals added to the original, until 83 is 

 the last recorded in the private Herd Book, and 56 the grand total 

 of the females. 



"We have the pleasure of roaming amongst the dairy cattle in the 

 park, which are found as before mentioned, with laige frames, and 

 good udders, showing the excellent results of using shorthorn bulls to 

 ordinary cattle; unfortunately the heifers were so widely scattered, 

 that the time at our disposal would not permit us to visit them ere 

 returning to Loughborough, but if their sires have been equal to the 

 handsome yearling, Duke of Harrington 14th 52774, bred at Holker, 

 a son of Grand Duke 46th 49671, and Countess of Harrington 8th, 

 purchased to assist Oxford de Vere 5th 48397, bred by the Duke of 

 Manchester, and bought for IBOgs. at the Sholebroke sale, previously 



