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descent as the Barringtonia. Bed Rose of Tweed, a good fleshed 

 red and white, was bred at Elmhurst, and t ivo young Grwynne cows, 

 bought at East Donyland as calves, fully maintain the excellent 

 reputation of the family, and the younger is the handsomest animal 

 at Russell Farm, where Prince of Waterloo 50255, a son of another 

 East Donyland purchase, has succeeded Mr. A. H. Longman's Lord 

 Shendish Charmer 2nd 48246. 



Four miles beyond Russell Farm, Shendish is reached, where 

 Mr. A. H. Longman has been breeding Bates and Knightley cattle 

 for the past fifteen years, crossing them with males of the former 

 blood, and generally bringing in some fresh material without 

 wandering f i om the recognised bull breeding families. Oxford Duke 

 34977, a son of the imported Eleventh Lady of Oxford, was privately 

 purchased fiom the Earl of Dunmore, and succeeded by Second Lord 

 of Strathtay 28636, a son of 3rd Duke of Hillhurst 30975, and the 

 imported Red Rose of Strathtay, from the same herd, the latter 

 being of the Rose of Sharon branch of the Cambridge Rose tribe, 

 which was fuither introduced by the use of Severus 43998, winner 

 of second honours at the Worcester Meeting of the Bath and West 

 of England Show. 2nd Duke of Hillhurst 39748, bought for 800gs., 

 at Millbeckstock, had divided the Red Rose bulls, and Sir Wilfrid 

 Winsome 48757 (a son of that beautiful heifer, Winsome Duchess, 

 sold for 700gs. at Stoke Park), and a level good bull has done four 

 years good service, and is now assisted by Oxford Duke of Killhow 

 8th 53368, the result of Mr. Foster sending Oxford Duchess of 

 Killhow to Sir Simeon 42412, which he consigned to the Underley 

 sale, from whence he came to Shendish. 



The Silence branch of the Surmises have long been in the herd, 

 and in the first group of cows we have Nos. 23, 24, and 25, but the 

 best cattle are the Apsleys, descended from Alix, well known in 

 connection with Her Majesty's herd at the Prince Consort's Shaw 

 Farm. Apsley 5th, a short legged massive cow, with her two 

 handsome daughters, Apsley 10th and Apsley llth, form an excellent 

 family. Of the own sisters, Shendish Rose 6th and Shendish Rose 

 7th, grand-daughters of Oxford Rose 9th, bought at Holker, when 



