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Tortworth was recognized close on half-a-century ago, as one 

 of the leading herds, and again is the fame revived by the Eight Hon. 

 Lord Moreton grand-son of the late owner who possesses a con- 

 siderable number of the fashionable Kirklevington and Wild Eyes 

 tribes in addition to nearly a score of Chaffs representing the old herd, 

 and some well bred Knightley Furbelows and B-osies. The cattle are 

 not located at the Home Farm as in olden times, but at the home- 

 steads on "Whit field, or perhaps better known in the county as 

 "Example Farm." The first important purchases made by Lord 

 Moreton were Kirklevington Duchess 9th and Siddington loth, at 

 the Ashdown House sale in 1878, both have been wonderfully prolific 

 and are still breeding at the respective ages of fifteen and twelve 

 years, what more can be- desired of two of the purest Bates animals.' 

 The red Kirklevington Duchess 9th is a nice type of an old 

 shorthorn cow, and has been both a good breeder and an excellent 

 dairy cow. Of her three daughters, the Second, Eighth and Tenth 

 Marchionesses of Kirklevington. the calf is extremely pretty ; the 

 two year old very lengthy and level appearing likely to develope 

 into the same stamp as the dam ; and the oldest is hardly so hand- 

 some as we would have expected from the union of Twentieth Duke 

 of Oxford 28432. Siddington 15th, possessing somewhat more 

 substance than Khklevington Duchess 9th, was twin to Siddington 

 16th, and the pair were sold when eight months old, at one of the 

 Siddington House sales for l,105gs., the only daughter now seen is 

 Lady Siddington 4th, by Grand Duke 34th 11642 hired by Lord 

 Moieton from Messrs. Hosken, and who has left a grand lot of 

 daughters at Tortworth very lengthy and low, she is one of the 

 handsomest heifers in the herd. Lady Siddington 5th, another of 

 Grand Duke 34th's get, is from Siddington 10th, bought from Mr. 

 H. de Vitre who had obtained her from head-quarters. Fair 

 Kirklevington 4th, represents what may be described as a third 

 branch, but in reality she is a Siddington, as her fourth dam was 

 the first of that celebrated branch of the Kirklevingtons, so named 

 by the late Mr. Bowly, after their birthplace. Although the 

 Kirklevingtons, like the "Wild Eyes, only number nine females, yet 



