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Waresley Park herd. Several highly bred Bates sires have been in 

 service since Mr. Linton began breeding, Caractacus 49227, was 

 obtained from Bally waiter, and at the third annual Lincoln sale 

 Mr. Topham's first prize Jolly Farmer was purchased. Duke of 

 Cornwall 4th 47726, however reigns as the recent acquisition's 

 colleague. It will be remembered that he was hired by Mr. Loder 

 at public auction for 230gs., when offered for that purpose at the 

 Whittlebury sale, afterwards at the dispersion of the Hindlip herd 

 he came to Buckden. Previously. Gaddesby had furnished Earl of 

 Leicester 19th 43160. and Whittlebury, Grand Duke of Darlington 

 2nd 41647, of the Princess and Darlington tribes. Mr. Liuton has 

 also several of the Seraphina family, so noted for their excellent 

 dairy properties in Mr. Robarts' and other herds, he having obtained 

 them from the former breeder. 



At Kens worth, near to Dunstable, in the adjoining County of 

 Bedford, Mr. T. R. Robinson, has the nucleus of what some day 

 will be a good herd, if he perseveres in using sires of the same merit 

 as Earl Sockburn, already favourably noticed in writing of the 

 Banning cattle, and which was purchased from his breeder, Mr. 11. 

 Leney, after his victory at the Tunbridge Wells show. The females 

 are limited to two tribes, viz.: the Red Roses, comp.ising Red 

 Rose of Glencoe, bred at Dunmore, but purchased from Mr. F. W. 

 Stone, with her produce, and the Peaches, or Poppys, formeily in 

 Mr. Thos. Bell's possession, and once so popular on the other side 

 of the Atlantic. Previously to purchasing Earl Sockburn, Mr. 

 Robinson had been using Lord Wellington 2nd 45172, bred at 

 Hindlip, and cows had been sent to Mr. Leney's Rowfant Grand 

 Duke 5201 6. 



Mr. C. 0. Hay ward, of Southill, made his first purchases at 

 the Harewoods sale of 1883, when Gloriana, descended from the 

 Harkforth stock through Mr. Tracy's herd, and Etta Gwynne, by 

 24th Duke of Airdrie 36460, out of Fanny Gwynne, a daughter of 

 Fauna Gwynne, bred at Biddenham, weie pui chased later on in 

 the same year. The half-sisters, Neasham Duchess, and Neasham 



