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useful dairy and grazing stock. Golden Flash, the little calf bought 

 by the side of the dam at West Hall, has developed into a cow of 

 nice quality. A full description of Mr. Spencer's splendid herd of 

 Yorkshire pigs which has representatives in almost every part of 

 the globe would be foreign to the present work, still we cannot 

 forbear expressing our pleasure at the the sight of perhaps the finest 

 herd of Yorkshires in the possession of a tenant farmer of any 

 country. 



Returning to St. Ives, Mr. How is awaiting us, and after driving 

 round by a distant farm we reach Broughton, one herd of this name 

 in the adjoining County has alreadv been noticed. Almost in the 

 dusk we walk round the pastures with the owner, which are not so 

 well filled as they? will be in a few years hence, the uork of nine 

 years having been scattered abroad only twelve months ago, but 

 most of the favourite sorts are represented in the something under 

 a score of all ages which we see, and the Madalines and Mantalinis 

 were untouched by the auction list. That Mr. How has been a 

 successful breeder, his sales of 1876 and 1885, are sufficient testimony. 

 The herd after being exhibited at the leading shows from 1864 to 

 1873, with the result of winning 218 prizes, was three years later 

 dispersed, excepting Pauline 10th and her daughter, at an average 

 of .119 5s. 8d. When nine years had passed over, Mr. How again 

 brought the larger portion of his carefully built up herd to the 

 hammer, and the result as compared with other sales must have been 

 deemed satisfactory by the owner. Many Warlaby sires have been 

 sent on hire to Broughton, but at present, Zoroaster 47308, a 

 beautiful bred Bliss, roams with the matrons, two of them, Victoria 

 Splendens and Victoria Superba, were also of Lady Pigot's breeding 

 while Victoria Splendora, although of Mr. How's, is own sister to the 

 latter, being by Lumens 51890, a son of Mr. Meade-Waldo's 

 beautiful Victoria Eulgida. The older of the sisters has already hid 

 a nice cow calf, seen in the sheds, while Victoria Stella, is the last 

 born of the old cow, and Broughton is apparently to have the 

 Mantalinis associated with its name in the future, as the Madalines and 

 Paulines have been in the past. The Paulines were all catalogued last 



