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useful cow, is better adapted for the pail than her younger half- 

 sister Melina, which is also understood to be a good dairy cow, und 

 another good looking daughter of Grand Ruth's is Victoria 2nd, 

 tracing many generations ago to Mr. Booth's Bright Eyes, exhibited 

 four times in 1884, she was placed at the head of her class on every 

 occasion, so it is sufficient to say she lacks not the size of the 

 exhibits sent forth from Clipstone. Ruby Rose 2nd, deep framed 

 and well ribbed, with Mr. Lythall's Paragon 40440, for sire, has 

 more Bates blood in her veins than any of the families in the herd, 

 Oxford Rose 10th, her dam having been bred by Sir W. G. Armstrong, 

 and tracing to Col. Gunter's Oxford Rose. In the intervening 

 pasture, are Lady Montague and Network 4th, half-sisters, the latter 

 a grand dark roan is worthy of her sire, and the family originally 

 obtained from Mr. C. W. Griffin. 



Returning to Clipstone, we are soon on the way to Newlands, 

 about two miles distant, crops are by no means abundant, the want 

 of rain not having suited the sandy soils bordering on Sherwood 

 Forest, 500 lambs in one pasture look well the flock numbers 

 between 5,000 and 6,000 of all ages in the absence of even a 

 moderate quantity of herbage. The buildings when reached are 

 found snugly situate in a valley almost bordering on the Forest, 

 where a nice lot of Shropshire ewes are running on some of the low 

 marshy ground in the days, here at any rate there appears some 

 symptoms of natural green food. Queen of the Cressidas, the matron 

 of the herd, holds quite a levee in the yard with her daughters and 

 grand-daughter surrounding hsr, and her last born, a white, is in a 

 box close at hand, inclined to be more leggy than her like coloured 

 companions out of Lady Emily, a cow that is intended to be sold, 

 so not mentioned and Georgina 4th, but it is intimated that several 

 of the family have been so inclined in their younger days, but after- 

 wards grow in the right direction, no one can find fault with the 

 grand old cow in this respect, she first attracted the notice of Mr. 

 Wood's uncle who had the management of the Osberton herd 

 at the Childwick Hall sale, where he was Mr. Budding's opponent, 

 and when the Panton cattle came into the market, he secured her for 



