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having been hired for service in Mr. Oliver's herd. For the tenants 

 on the estate, Gay Oxford 51294, bred at Beau Manor, and by 

 Duke of Oxford 47th 41414, out of Gay lass 5th, a very serviceable 

 looking animal, is retained. When Mr. Humphreys came in 1850, 

 he found in service, Gopsall, whose parentage was supposed to be as 

 previously mentioned, and in the next ten years the following 

 sires followed each other, viz. Mr. E. Stokes' Kingston 2nd 8368 ; 

 Dusty (a son of Mr. Bates' Second Duke of Oxford 9046), Doctor, 

 bred at Holker, Salopian 39076 (a son of Mr. Bolden's May Duke 

 13320), whose daughters combined the two great essentials of milk 

 and flesh in an especial degree ; and Fancy Boy (by The Squire 

 12217), bred at Panton. After the purchase of Zodiac 17628, and 

 Archduke 37738, in 1860 and 1862, a decided inclination to the use 

 of males containing more or less of Bates blood, is observed by the 

 purchases after that date. Bidclenham was resorted to in 1864 and 

 1867, when two Gwynne sons of Fifth Grand Duke 19875, and 

 Second Duke of Thorndale 17748, were obtained ; Gaddesby next 

 furnished Duke of Magdala 28418, of the Duchess Nancy tribe, 

 and Burghley, Duke of Elvira 30950, a son of Mr. Cheney's Duke 

 of Geneva 9th 28391. The names of Fifth Duke of Wellington 

 33751, LoidFizclarence 20th 38604, Duke of Worcester 6th 43199, 

 Duke of Oxfoid 47th 41414, and Hindlip Prince 3rd 44940, at once 

 bespeak their breeders and tribes without further comment. 



The Sandiacres and Fans originate from two cows, daughters of 

 Mr. Wilkinson's Wondeiful 14022, of the Zeal tribe, bought fiom 

 Sandiacie. in November, 1858, and their descendants curiously 

 number exactly eight each. Cows known by the names of Red 

 No e, Dinah, and Bi asshorn, were purchased at the Rev. J. Robinson's 

 sale at Widnetpool in April, 1857, and their offspring have since 

 been classified into the Buttercup, Azalia, and Gay lass families, of 

 which by far the most numerous are the Azalias. Although an 

 outsider might wonder that Mr. Humphreys, when he has purchased 

 so many fashionable bred Bates bulls of late, did not also acquire an 

 occasional female to mate with them, but breeding a herd of good 

 cattle, and trying to keep them up to the standard by the use of 



