250 S1IOHTIIORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 



males of high lineage, and to supply bulls to the neighbouring 

 farmers, has ever been his object, yet on two occasions he introduced 

 fresh families by the purchase of Dolly and Cassandra, of Mr. 

 Adkins' Dido tribe, at the Papillon Hall sale of 1878, and in the 

 following year the dispersion of the Gaddesby herd saw Countess 

 Ketura and Seraphina Duchess, taken possession of by the Agent 

 at Beau Manor; the Didos have multiplied exceedingly, of the later 

 purchases the same cannot be said, but we must not fail to add that 

 the latter are some of the best bred Seraphinas that are to be found 

 in this country, 



The flock of Leicesters on the estate is considered to be one of 

 the purest of the breed, the present flock has had its record kept as 

 that of the cattle since 1853, when a ram was hired from Mr. Stone 

 of Barrow-on-Soar, and ten theaves bought from Mr. Bradshaw, of 

 the same village, in Leicester Fair : the following year a shearling 

 ram came from Mr. Stone's successor, and in 1M52. and 1863, 

 Messrs. Spencer and Cresswell supplied them on hire. During the 

 next ten years, rams were bought from Mr. J. N. Buckley, in 

 1*7:!, 15 owes and 2 rams (No. 21 S2gs.) were purchased at the 

 Rev. George Inge's sale, in 1877 ten Burgess th eaves were 

 bought at Aylesby, and five years later, twenty-nine were added at 

 the dispersion of the Eavenstone flock, while rams have since been 

 hired from Messrs. J. E. Singleton and T. H. Hutchinson, and 

 bought from Messrs. J. Borton, W. Brown, 11. Harrison, and F. J. 

 Jordan. 



A couple of miles beyond Beau Manor brings us to Maplewell, 

 where Sir W. H. Salt, Bart., has gathered together what may be 

 termed his third collection of shorthorns ; for 1870 witnessed the 

 dispersion of a herd singularly unique in its character, as the thirty- 

 two females sold at an average of =117 10s. Dd., all belonged to two 

 tiilK's, the Blanches, and Gwynne.s. Again in 1881, Mr. Thornton 

 WM called into requisition, on the removal of the herd from New 

 Parks near the County town, to its present home, and with the 

 exception of five females of the Princess tribe, and an Oxford bull 

 the entire herd was dispersed at '40 per head less than the previous 



