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The herd at Kingscote has been essentially a breeding one and 

 that on a considerable scale, a grand total of eighty pedigree animals 

 being now found at the date of our visit one winter's day in the 

 beginning of the new year. No public sale has been held since the 

 summer of 1882, when a small selection were sent to be sold at 

 Berkeley, a good demand having of late been experienced for the 

 young stock of both sexes for exportation to South America, and to 

 keep the herd up to its full breeding strength, several fresh tribes 

 have been added. The most important of the several sales held at 

 Kingscote, was the one Mr. Stratford presided over twelve years ago, 

 when the forty head averaged <179 4s. 8d., and 7(50gs. was given 

 for a Wild Eyes heifer, by Mr. W. Angerstein, yet notwithstanding 

 that an Oxford realized " eleven hundred " four years later, the 

 average fell short by nearly <80. 



Bell Bates cattle formed a larger proportion of the herd a dozen 

 years ago than at the present day, when their descendants number 

 rather more than a third of the entire stock. In Ariel Girl, the 

 fifth generation bred at Kingscote, from Ariel 5th, the entire hopes 

 of the A combs are centred. The Capsicum", or Lady Bickerstaffes as 

 they are now named, trace like the Georgianas and Peaches, to animals 

 bought direct at Brockton Hall, Lady Bickerstaffe 4th, the matron, 

 is one of the few daughters left in the herd, by a very fine bull 

 Cowslip Boy 38051 exhibited successfully at the Kilburn Royal, 

 where he was placed second to Vice Admiral, but our favourite is 

 Lady Bickerstaffe 7th, a neat level red heifer bought as a calf at 

 The Hendre along with her mother, Miss Bickerstaffe 3rd, whose 

 dam had previously gone from Kingscote. Another very coloury 

 nice heifer of this family is Lady Bickerstaffe 8th, one of Prince 

 Saladin 4th's get, a son of the Earl of Bective's favourite Lady Sale 

 of Putney, and used by Col. Kingscote with his son George Saladin 

 2nd 51331, previous to the purchase of the present sire. The 

 Georgianas here named Georgies, with part of the sire's name 

 added are well represented by the lengthy Georgie Hazlecote, with 

 her pretty roan calf, and number one more than the Peaches, the 



