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boxes, apparently with the intention of not returning to their 

 pastures until morning, although the month of August is not yet 

 expired. Mr. T. Holford's shorthorns were formerly bred at Papillon 

 Hall, and in those days the owner's name was known as a purchaser 

 of several of the highest bred females in this country, as well as on 

 the other side of the Atlantic. At New York Mills in 1873, one of 

 the purest of the Oxfords was obtained, as well as Lady "Worcester 

 4th exported from this country and her heifer. Nothing daunted 

 by bad luck with the American Oxford, l,100gs. was paid the following 

 year for Baroness Oxford 3rd, at Holker, which proved one of the most 

 fo 1 tunate of Mr. Holford's purchases. Three years later, the States 

 supplied Airdrie Duchess 6th and Airdrie Duchess Tthfor the Papillon 

 herd. Many other highly bred Bates and Knightley animals were 

 purchased, and Grand Duke 23rd 34063, out of that famous old cow, 

 Griand Duchess 17th, was in service for ten years: during his latter 

 days, he was assisted by his son, Viscount Oxford 2nd 42558, who is 

 still seen at Castle Hill. A single sale has been held at each of the two 

 abodes of the herd, over "eight hundred" was realized for a Winsome 

 on the fiist occasion, while at the latter nearly double was reached 

 when Duchess of Leicester 3rd came into the ring. No females 

 have been bought since the 1883 sale, and the herd includes only 

 "Waterloos, excepting the already mentioned Duchesses and Oxfords. 



Airdrie Duchess 6th and Airdrie Duchess 7th, were descended 

 from Mr. Alexander's Duchess of Airdrie 10th, sold by him to Mr. 

 Gr. Murray, of Racine, in whose possession she had five heifers, the 

 family being afterwards sold to the Hon. M. H. Cochrane, at whose 

 sale Mr. A. Crane, of Kansas, bought two of the daughters, at a cost 

 of over $20,000 each, in calf to Second and Fourth Dukes of Hill- 

 hurst, the two heifers sold to Mr. Holford being the result. The 

 Duchesses of Leicester, are now five in number, consisting of the 

 Second (out of the older imported heifer), her two daughters, the 

 Ninth and Eleventh; the Fifth (from Airdrie Duchess 7th), and 

 her yearling daughter, the Tenth. The South Americans have 

 recently carried away the Eighth, a half-sister to the Fifth, she being 

 only the second female of this noble family exported to that country. 



