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bought, and so prolific have they been that they now number thirty- 

 one females. Mr. Hall obtained his original cow from Mr. 

 Wilkinson, and he in turn from Mr. Charles Colling. Two of the 

 sires used by Mr. Hall Wonderful 14022, and Chilton Hero 

 17564 were, one from Earl Spencer's Zeal, and the other from her 

 grand-daughter. It was this tribe which produced Mr. A. Cruick- 

 shank's Champion of England 17526, and Mr. Edwards' first prizfa 

 cow at the recent Dairy Show was by Duke of Lancaster 49460. 

 Several sons of Lancaster 35th have been used to the Olives or 

 Dahlias, now increased to thirteen from the purchase of a heifer 

 calf, Olive Bud, privately from Mr. J. H. Braikenridge, she was got 

 by the Bracelet bull, Earl of Killerby 33802, and traced to Dahlia, 

 by Magnum Bonum 2243. Mr. Greo. Taylor's Olive Blossom 3rd, 

 the mother of his highest priced bull at Bingley Hall last March, 

 was the union of a Lancaster sire with an Olive cow, and the 

 precisely same cross has now produced an excellent red bull calf for 

 Mr. Colthurst. It has been the custom to send most of the females 

 which are good regular breeders and deep milkers to Mr. 

 Braikenridge's sires, through the courtesy of the owner. 



Mr. J. H. Braikenridge has for many years been carefully 

 breeding a herd of Booth cattle at The Kookery. not however 

 strictly confined to those tribes which the public rank as fashionable, 

 as in the animals which now compose the herd are found specimens 

 of the Broadmoor Pyes, descended fiom two half sisters, Peony, by 

 Mr. Peel's Buccaneer 25693 and Penance, by the Warlaby Royal 

 Benedict 27348, out of a cow by the Knowlmere Cynric 19542; the 

 Madrigals, mother and daughter, bought at the dispersion of the 

 Childwick Hall shorthorns ; and the Beeswings having an excellent 

 foundation of good old blood. The Annas were obtained at 

 Middleton Quernhow, by the purchase of Anna 7th, the best of her 

 family for 265gs. and her cow calf for 71gs ; with the exception of 

 Anna 13th, all the present members of the tribe are known as 

 Bright Eyes', and in the naming of both this family and the Bracelets, 

 the owner has brought the names of two cows Bright Eyes and 

 Bracelet calved in the earlier part of the contury into notice. Two 



