SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 2C5 



through good judgement, and judicious management, that the present 

 success of the herd has been attained. A ten minutes walk from 

 Cavendish Lodge across regular burnt up pastures brings us to half- 

 a-dozen cows. Network, a grand-daughter of the famous Telemachus, 

 is the first to greet us, with her full deep bosom, and grand wide 

 loin. Lady Siddington, with the Rev. P. Graham's Baron Turncroft 

 Siddington 37823, for sire, is a lengthy good cow showing plenty of 

 size, and has proved herself a good breeder, Lady Ottoline, the 

 Reserve at both the recent Newcastle and York Meetings, and Lady 

 Montague, a last year's winner, being from her. Queen of the 

 Cressidas 2nd, a roan with beautiful shoulders, is of the Warlaby 

 Farewell tribe, through Farewell's grand-daughter Cressida. Then 

 we have what in the height of her fame must have been a very handsome 

 cow, as her shapely forequarters testify, this is Georgina 2nd, 

 thirteen years old in December, bred by Sir George Woomb well, Bart, 

 and one of the first purchases made for the herd at the end of 1878, 

 she has been an excellent breeder, and the name of Georgina has of 

 late been pretty familiar to frequenters of show yards, her three 

 daughters having followed the example of their dam by all beina: 

 prize winners. Vesper Bell, and Vesper Bell 2nd, as their names 

 imply, stand in the relation of mother and daughter to each other, 

 but no guide to the good old family Mr. Ben Wilson's Certaintys 

 they belong, can be gathered, by either the experienced or inexper- 

 ienced. Milk seems to be tlae forte of the Vesper Belles rather than 

 flesh forming qualities, a white daughter of the younger cow is the 

 first to be pointed out in another paddock, where eight matrons are 

 gathered together, and hares are even more plentiful than shorthorns 

 in the by no means extensive enclosure. Medina, one of the oldest 

 of Grand Ruth's daughters, is an excellent four year old, well 

 girthed, very straight on her top, ribs nicely arched, and her shoulders 

 do not appear as if added to her carcase after being made, as we 

 once heard a gentleman remark of a certain famous bull in the days 

 of old, when contemplating his picture. Georgina 3rd, a wonderfully 

 pretty cow, carries herself in queenly style, but she lacks length like 

 her son, Sir Gerald, the Yorkshire winner, Harmony, a straight 



