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other single prizes have been gained from time to time, but we 

 consider that far greater value should be attached to family and group 

 prizes, than is at present done by the Royal and County Societies, if, 

 excepting one or two, their prize lists are any criterion ; an individual 

 may piodnce a single good animal by accident, but it takes a breeder 

 to produce a good family. As Queen Esther and her half-sister, 

 My rah, are the only two left of either of the show families, we will 

 give them first notice, the former a grand heifer, first as a yearling at 

 the Yorkshire, had to be withdrawn from the sale through an accident, 

 but it will be long ere the younger sister has the good points of 

 Queen Esther. Pauline 27th, the youngest of the half dozen bought 

 at Mr. How's sale in May, 1885, is the first female seen ; out of the 

 eight offered on that occasion, excepting two, all came to Osberton, 

 in the future they will take rank as one of the leading families. 

 Paulines 17th, 21st, 23rd, and 24th, are a fine lot of cows, worthy 

 the foundation of any leading tribe. Bright Pixie, is a promising 

 calf by Mr. Welsted's bull, from Bright Fairy, the hopes of the famous 

 Aylesby Brights being now centred in this heifer and her mother. 

 The Sweethearts are restricted to a Caesar Augustus calf and its dam, 

 a very neat young cow, and Sweetheart 50th, a daughter of Riby 

 King and one of the cows sold at the sale. The Farewells retained, 

 were all minus the Bates cross excepting October Rose, considered 

 to be rather doubtful, but now believed to be in calf. The three 

 half-sisters, Winter Rose, Perpetual Rose, and Easter Rose, with 

 the two daughters of the oldest, a well bred group of Farewells, 

 coming into Mr. Foljambe's possession at Mr. Lynn's sale, through 

 the purchase of Clematis, when passed her fifteenth year, she after- 

 wards bred three calves, the youngest, Autumn Rose, by the Killerby 

 M. P. 29398, is the dam of the three sisters. Mr. Foljambe has 

 obtained a branch of the tribe which when better known will be 

 enquired after, as Clematis, although by Earl Howe's Sir John 12084, 

 was out of Farewell's daughter, Clementina, and consequently they 

 are of one of the choicest branches of this numerous and popular 

 tribe. May Morning and May Pole, are the only pair left of a 

 Mason family that ha/ve been at Osberton several generations. 



