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accompanied her from Mr. Hewer's has grown into a nice straight 

 heifer. The Fillpails, bred from an uneligible cow, obtained at 

 Dudgrove are quite equal to fulfilling anticipations when hearing of 

 their suggestive names. Cheerful, from the same origin, not only 

 a good framed cow, has been an excellent breeder, her three sons of 

 1884-5-6 having been commended, reserve and winner of third 

 prize, when exhibited at Birmingham March sale, afterwards real- 

 izing fifty-two, fifty-five and sixty-six guineas respectively and the 

 roan one of this year is the best of the spring calves. 



Hatherop is half-a-dozen miles from Butler's Court and here 

 Mr. William Arkell farms even more largely than his brother, and 

 Oxfordshire Downs are also bred as well as shorthorns, three pens of 

 lambs having gained prizes at the recent Banbuiy Show. The 

 herd was founded almost solely on the purchases made at the two 

 Dudgrove sales, with the exception of the Ursulas from Mr. T. 

 Arkell of Draycott, near Swindon : Janettes and E/ubys at Mr. 

 Hewer's sale, and the Florentias through Frantic, sent by her owner 

 Mr. R. H. Carter, to be sold at Swindon. The females are not 

 nearly so numerous as at Butler's Court, the Janettes barely reaching 

 double figures, are the most largely represented, the Sixth, a nice 

 stamp of cow with a well shaped udder, is perhaps the best of the 

 family, she and her half sister the Eighth, being from the Fourth, a 

 cow that gave twenty-six quarts of milk per day for two months 

 after calving. The Dudgrove Frosts number only one sho^t of the 

 Janettes, Forest Queen 3rd is the dam of a straight young cow, 

 Forest Queen 7th, by Mr. Hobbs' Wellesley 9th 47237 and a white 

 heifer to Prince Frogmore's Seal. Factory Maid 2nd and Flower of 

 Hatheiop are from Factory Maid, one of the best breeders ever 

 possessed by Mr. "W. Arkell, she having been the dam of three first 

 prize bulls at Bingley Hall in 1880-1-3, which averaged X107 8s., 

 including prize money, such a feat is worthy of recording. Of th^ 

 half sisters Euby 4th and Euby 5th, we prefer the latter, an 

 attractive roan heifer, but the former having calved at two years old, 

 has had less chance than usual of regaining her bloom with the 

 unwonted scarcity of grass this summer. The Florentias and Ursulas 



