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of the Booth bulls used by the late Mr. J. Caddy, excepting a half 

 cross through her sire, Kufus, who was a grandson of the Blencow 

 purchase. Both crosses do equal credit to the family with the other 

 branch, but do not appear to have been so much given to heifer 

 treed ing. 



Mr. Scratton purchased King of Oxford, one of the purest- 

 young Oxford bulls in existence, at the East Donyland sale, he is a son 

 of Knight of Oxford 3id 43441 and Duchess of Oxford 2nd. The 

 calves that have been dropped by this handsome young Bates sire, 

 are full of promise and as his predecessor Baron Winsome Oxford 

 451)52 or more piops.ly speaking his senior partner (he being still 

 seen at a farm some distance from the home buildings), is a massive 

 deep red, the colours must be satisfactory and excepting the white 

 Wild Eyes, there is not a single shorthorn of this colour on the 

 estate, this is accounted for by the preference Mr. Scratton has shown 

 for using red sires, Cherry Duke 6th 30705. the one in service at 

 Mr. Scratton's draft sale of nine years ago, since which date the 

 herd has been composed of the families mentioned. Baron Oxford 

 2nd 23376, the next sire is described as red and little white in 

 Coates', and Baron Hillhurst 41037, a roan, but by a dark red sire, 

 preceded the "Winsome from Duncombe, one of the most highly 

 bred of the tribe. The calves are reared without any hard feeding, 

 running out in the enclosure adjoining a commodious set of new 

 buildings recently erected at the Home Farm, afterwards earning 

 their living on the hill sides, which are not the richest of Devonshire 

 pastures, and it is thus not until their second calf that they are seen 

 at their best. 



Chudleigh, to the north-east of Newton Abbott, is situate 

 midway betwixt the station of that name and Eilleigh, the residence 

 of Mr. Evan Baillie, whose herd is confined to three families, if we 

 exclude the sire, Baron Bright Eyes 2nd, bred at Park-le-Breos by 

 Sir Hussey Vivian. The Darlingtons and Kirklevingtons trace to 

 purchases made in the autumn of 1879, Mr. Sheldons's Brailes herd 

 supplying Countess of Darlington, then in her ninth year, and Mr. 

 Geo. Allen's sale at Knightley Hall, a yearling heifer named 



