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should prove a great bargain, as for so good and highly bred a 

 heifer she was one of the cheapest Oxfords sold for some time. It is 

 hardly possible that the use of so highly bred a bull as Oxford's 

 Coriolanus, can lessen the value of the tribe in the future when we 

 hear so much of fresh innovation of blood wanted in many of the 

 leading tribes, but the public are not yet disposed to pay for a 

 breeder's experiments in this direction, unless they are accompanied 

 by success. Certainly the Cleopatras occupisd a place in the Holker 

 herd for many years, which adds to their prestige, but they have 

 never risen to be so fashionable as their breeding merits. Oxford's 

 Coriolanus, after having Duke of Oxford 61st for sire, has for 

 grandsire, a Waterloo bred at Stancliffe, followed by those illus- 

 trious names, 5th Duke of Wetherby, 4th Baron Oxford, Grand 

 Duke 10th, and Lord Oxford, in direct succession, the rest of the 

 males having some of the best blood in earlier years in their veins. 



The Preston Hall and Wateringbury sales in the summer of 1884, 

 supplied no less than five incalf cows and heifers, which now form 

 the greater part of the little herd in Darley Dale. Havering Lily 

 15th, represents the Lady Valiants formerly in the present owner's 

 possession. Havering Ruby 2nd, and Havering Gwynne 9th, have 

 each had a nice heifer to Duke of Cornwall 3rd 44665, the former 

 one of the best in the field will grow into a very handsome cow. 

 Countess 13th came with Bracelet 30th from Wateringbury, the 

 Charmer has had a couple of heifers named Stancliffe Charmers, 

 one by Messrs. Leney's Duchess bull, and the other by Duke of 

 Oxford 61st, used previously to the purchase of Duke of Ormskirk 

 6th, a highly bred pure Duke of Lord Lathom's. Red Rose of 

 Hindlip 15th, a grand-daughter of the imported Red Rose of Tweedale, 

 is hardly so even as Stancliffe Ruby ; and lastly, Duchess of Cleve- 

 land 3rd, a handsome grand-daughter of Maid of Lorn, sold in 1873 

 for 215gs. to Mr. W. Ashburner, was bought at Hindlip for a little 

 more than one third the money. 



In passing the churchyard at Darley, when driving down the 

 Dale from Stancliffe, we are pointed out a magnificent yew, one of 

 the oldest in the country said to be from 1200 to 2000 year* 



