SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 



first in his class, but Reserve for the Championship ; he is a short 

 legged massive bull of good quality, and will probably mate well 

 with the majority of the Clipstone cows as they are possessed of 

 immense size, while in this point he is found wanting. Wanderer 

 50622, the third sire, was bred by Messrs. Mitchell, at Alloa, and 

 belongs to the Aylesby W. tribe, being sired by the Warlaby Eoyal 

 Studley 45548, from Weal Branch, a grand-daughter of Weal Graft, 

 bought at the dispersion of the late Mr. Torr's cattle. He is a rich 

 roan, full of quality, and of masculine appearance, with shoulders 

 sloping well back into a thick chine. 



The Ossington herd although founded many years ago, was 

 destroyed at the time of the cattle plague in 1866, excepting Coburg 

 19466, bred at Holker, the sire then in service. The late Lord 

 Ossington, not disheartened by the loss he had sustained almost 

 immediately began visiting many of the leading herds with Mr. T. 

 Camm (the present manager of the seventy head of pedigree cattle, 

 belonging to Viscountess Ossington), while the latter went in for 

 both quality and beauty of outline, he never lost sight of thb milking 

 properties of the animals to be purchased, as the herd which 

 excepting the sire in use have all been bred on the farm had to be 

 treated as a general purpose or milk producing one. In the autumn 

 of 1868, when Mr. Camm attended the first of Mr. Stiles Eich's 

 sales at Didmarton, he visited Mr. Thompson's little herd at 

 Badminton on the following day, and found Duke of Hazlecote 25969, 

 a very promising youngster on hire from Kingscote, which he 

 eventually purchased, as well as five cows and heifers from Mr. 

 Thompson, the decendants of two of them have multiplied exceedingly, 

 and the Coquettes and Clotildes, are very numerous, the former are 

 of the same descent as the once high priced G-azelles, and the latter 

 trace to the old Strickland blood well known in Gloucestershire. 

 In 1871, the most important purchases were made, Duke of Oxford 

 21st 30999, being bought at Holker, he turned out exceedingly 

 well, and was the principal stock sire for ten years, his sons from 

 various families, year after year serving the heifers and he the cows, 

 thus naturally with so much close breeding, a strong family resem- 



