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some red cow was purchased along with a somewhat doubtful Oxford, 

 the former though aged, still bears traces of her beauty, and the 

 owners may be thought fortunate in obtaining a red heifer from her. 

 Of the three Waterloos from Pool Park, Lady Blithfield 2nd, a lengthy 

 light roan impresses us the most favourably. The best of the Belles 

 of Oxford -the red and white Twelfth was purchased at the 

 dispersion of the famous Penryhn Castle herd, and has since recently 

 brought a cow calf, thus Messrs. Hosken have in late years added 

 three fashionable families to the herd, and may they be as successful 

 with them as with the old well tried sorts. 



On returning from Hayle our first halting place is Scorrier, to 

 visit Mr. GL Williams' herd at Sconier House, which was founded 

 as long ago as 1853, by the purchase of several females, of which 

 Columbine, bred by Mr. H. W. Beauford, out of a Third Duke of 

 Northumberland cow, but by Mr. Booth's Diamond 5918, has proved 

 the most prolific, many of the present herd being now descended 

 from her, and several handsome framed red cows, with deep chests, 

 wide loins and good ribs, are greatly admired in the Park, especially 

 must be noticed Cowslip, standing near to the ground with 

 beautiful shoulders and abundance of hair and flesh, and her half- 

 sister, Columbine, is of the same short legged stamp, very level on 

 her top and well filled in her quarters. Picotee. from Cowslip, is 

 well sprung in her rib and straight in her lines, but hardly so 

 massive as her sister. Carnation, equally as level an animal, while a 

 third own sister, Pink, having a big bull calf suckling her, is not 

 seen under such favourable conditions. Clover, a nice young cow, 

 out of Columbine, has a red cow calf running by her side. Ehodo- 

 dendron, is a good old sort, by a home bred sire, and Wild Euth, 

 Wild Eose and Wild Flower, are also pointed out as of the same 

 descent, the last named being a particularly stylish heifer. The 

 Pool Park' sale contributed York's Certainty Duchess 3rd and Lady 

 Clwyd 5th, to the herd, but when compared to (he home bred cattle, 

 we must admit the superiority of the latter, while Bracelet 44th, 

 obtained at Preston Hall, and her heifer, do not make an exception 

 to this opinion. The Pool Park purchases came in calf to Lord 



