254 SHOJITHOUX HERDS OF ENGLAND. 



from /cal 5Sth, being the latest arrival. Regarding Zeal 12th, one 

 of the da.ughl ers of the Shobnall purchase, a curious incident occurred 

 in 1ST!), she was then, with several other cows, including .Flower of 

 York, one of the Aylesby purchases, which had unfortunately 

 diseolated her hip in the autumn of 1877, and had thus become so 

 feeble as to be unable to rise when lying down, that Mr. Fowler had 

 given orders for her removal from the field to be slaughtered, not 

 being about when the butcher arrived to take her away, she was 

 axed in the field, on July 15th, the other cows gathering round the 

 dying animal ; as was natural the owner reproved his man strongly 

 for allowing this to be done, and at the same time told him what he 

 feared would result, viz : that this cow, Zeal 12th, being of so 

 sympathetic a nature, would cast her calf. On August 24th the 

 cow cast her calf, as Mr. Fowler had predicted, it being a roan bull, 

 and within two months of its proper period of gestation, fully 

 developed for its months, and in every way a strong healthy looking 

 calf, but having a hole in its forehead large enough to contain the 

 ends of three fingers, and having three distinct rolls of what appeared 

 to be a mixture of blood and brains, hanging down from the hole to 

 nearly the nose, being altogether the fac-siraile of any beast axed for 

 slaughter. With these facts so concisely recorded by Mr. Fowler, 

 can anvone for a moment have any doubt about the "sympathy" 

 doctrine, and need it be added that the cow never bred again. 



Zeal 14th, the oldest of the family, is by Duke of Rutland 33726, 

 a combination of Knightley, and Bates blood, and the sire in use at 

 the time of Mr. Fowler's sale, but in the same month, he had been 

 one of the numerous company at Aylesby, and had purchased 

 Burghley 36296, out of Bright Baroness, along with three heifers, 

 the former was extensively used to the Zeals, except when Knave of 

 Trumps 46566, was bought from Mr. Pears, and a little inbreeding 

 has been tried by the owner, he has had a share in the Killerby 

 males hired by his neighbour, Mr. Finder, and now joins him in the 

 hire of Wallace 48879, from Warlaby. The Thirty-fourth, a 

 daughter of the Fourteenth, grazes along side of her, her sire, Knave 

 of Trumps 46566, was bred at Hackthorne, of the same family as 



