2i)4 SlEOItTlIOHN HKRDS OF KNU-LA.N'D. 



Show was held at Birmingham in 1831), and the handsome Elvira 

 7th, trace to Mr. Kobert Colling's Princess, and have each bred a 

 heifer to Silenus 6th 47088, a son of Silence 8th, an extraordinary 

 heavy milker, owned by Mr. Longman, by whom the bull was bred, 

 and afterwards extensively used by Mr. Edwards. The Cleopatras 

 include Ceres, a pretty stylish cow. The Vestris', t'voin Shirdeleos, 

 have multiplied freely. The Seraphinas and Lady Wellesleys both 

 descend from the Rev. E. Pointer's Old Darlington. Myra, a Blanche 

 cow, bred by Mr. E. H. Masfen, was in milk 248 days, and gave 

 0,1281bs., whereas Daffodil, of the same gentleman's breeding, gave 

 7,7931bs. in 34(J days, and won the Lord Mayor's Champion Cup in 

 1882, at the Dairy Show, while Countess of Wragby, had over 

 6,0001bs to her credit in 202 days. The "Booth purchases claim 

 the heaviest milker in the herd, Water Nymph 3rd, bought at 

 Broughton, having given 9,197lbs. in 282 days, with 14 per cent of 

 cream. Olivia and Olivette, with Booth sires, trace to Mr. E. 

 Marsh's stock, and the Phillis' to Mr. Jolly's, but more lecently 

 through West Dereham, the oldtr of the two purchases made at the 

 sale leaving an average of 231bs. for the 294 days she was in milk. 

 The Queens of Fame, with the exception of one, a;e bred by Mr. 

 Edwaids, who obtained them fiom Child wick Hall. Fame, the dam 

 of two Princes of Fame, used in the heid, gave an average of 27-|lbs, 

 of milk per diem. Prince Matchless 56223, by Mr. Lodge's 

 Wellington Duke 6th 45773, from Matchless 5th, is a lengthy good 

 bull, and his dam is well known to fame, yet is not the dam of 

 the sire of equal importance ? yet no evidence is offered as to her 

 milking properties in the last private catalogue, which is unusua'ly 

 explicit in many particulars. Eoyal Eaymond 52055, bred by Mr. 

 A. E. VV. Darby, a red of quite the Booth character, and the other 

 principal sire is a son of the VVarlaby Eoyal Mowbray 43300, 

 from Eosa, Fredrica, of a family well known at Braithwaite Hall for 

 their dairy properties in byegone days. 



The Woolmers Park herd dates from the year 1845, when Mr. 

 Wodehouse purchased at Darlington, six pedigree shorthorn cows, 

 three of which cost fifty guineas each, considered at the time a high 



