270 SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 



blance pervades the herd. Excepting when Pretty Maid 3rd (a 

 daughter of Duke of Oxford 21st), was sent to Mr. Holford's 

 Grand Duke 23rd 34036, and the produce, Sherwood Chieftain 

 39088, used in the herd, no fresh blood was introduced until 

 1883, when Baron Oxford 17th 49091, was bought at the last 

 Holker sale, and he still reigns at Ossington, having developed 

 into a good masculine like animal, and proved a good stock 

 getter, he is assisted by young home bred males when required, 

 so it is evident Mr. Camm intends to show his visitors animals of a 

 still mo^e uniform type in future years. If many other breeders 

 would thus go in for breeding with certain defined objects in view, 

 it would not tend to deteriorate the shorthorn breed. The Blanches 

 came with the first Oxford bull from Holker, and the original 

 purchase bred a couple of sires for the herd. In the same year, 

 Pretty Maid, Admiration, and Baby, came from the prize winning 

 herd at Pan ton, and descendants are now found from each of them 

 at Ossington, while the Amelias, a good dairy family, originated 

 from Coleby Hall. Seven young cows and heifers, purchased from 

 the late Mr. Isaac Sharpley, of Colcethorpe, near Louth, out of a 

 well bred herd of cattle, but with only short recorded pedigrees, 

 have like many more of the same class proved themselves a 

 rent paying sort. The breeding of serviceable young bulls is one of 

 the main objects of the herd, for which Mr. Camm states he has a 

 steady and regular demand, very few having to be sold in public, 

 although the only calf sent to the last Lincoln Bull sale carried off 

 first honours. 



The owner of the Stancliffe herd has a name known far outside 

 the quiet Derbyshire Dale, where he has begun a comparatively new 

 herd during the past three or four years under the management of 

 Mr. Dawson. A successful sale was held in 1873, when Mr. Strafford 

 made nearly fifty-five guineas of the fifty-three head. Afterwards 

 several purchases were made at Graddesby, and Holker, but their 

 descendants are restricted to a promising young Cleopatra cow ; and 

 her yearling son, a good looking animal, is intended to cross the 

 Oxford heifer recently bought at Langleybury, which if fortunate 



