SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 301 



Court is a substantial old fashioned house, built about the year 1700, 

 in the front is one of the largest thatched barns in England, and at 

 the back is a charming old fashioned garden. Near!) eighty cows 

 are now in milk, the produce being despatched twice every day to 

 London. It is satisfactory to find that with one or two exceptions, 

 the use of shorthorn sires for several generations is very apparent 

 in the animals seen in the meadows belonging to Moor Court, many 

 indeed will shortly appear in Coates' ; Grace Darling having already 

 done so in the last edition, all the sires found in her pedigree having 

 been used by Mr. Hoddinott. A few pure bred females were 

 purchased from ten to sixteen years ago, principally at the sales of 

 Mr. R. Stratton and Mr. J. How, from the former came Ada and 

 "Wild Rose, of the Moss Rose family, and Frivolity, with only three 

 registered crosses, although very handsome, and the highest priced 

 female at Buderop, and the latter furnished four females, although 

 descendants are now only forthcoming from the Pauline and 

 Lancaster heifers. Commencing with a Pye bull, The Proctor 30149, 

 from Broadmoor, Rule Britannia 29900 (a son of Royal Benedict 

 27348, and Rose of the Moor), followed from Churchill Heath, and 

 Booth blood afterwards had a prevailing element in the choice of 

 sires, until Lord Hartington 5th 48195, the present one, was 

 purchased. Mr. Hoddinott has generally retained one or two of 

 tfce best of a purchased male's sons to succeed him, this doubtless 

 will help to create a family character in any herd. Ruby's Windsor 

 29875, by Sir Windsor Broughton 27507, out of an Abbot of 

 Knowlmere cow, was purchased in 1873, and sold again the same 

 year when exhibited at the Royal Counties Show. In the following 

 year, Knight of Fame 34379, a highly bred son of Mr. T. C. Booth's 

 Knight of the Shire 26552, and Collenette was bought at Preston 

 Hows, and used for five seasons. Both Hero of the South 31361, 

 and Magna Charta 34722 (sons of Ada), by The Proctor 30149 and 

 Rule Britannia 29900, had assisted Knight of Fame, in the early 

 part of his reign at Moor Court, and towards the end of it, his sons, 

 Knight of Stratton's Roses 40086 and Knight of Hampshire 41777, 

 out of the other Budeiop Moss Rose purchase, were freely used. 



