360 SHORTHORN HKRDS OF ENGLAND. 



bought, although the latter tribe are only three in nnmber, they are 

 fine cattle and deep milkers, a great favourite in the herd being 

 Dido 8th, a short legged massive red, which the herdsman remarks 

 "still gives six gallons per day (August) and calved on March 7th." 



At Eastleach, a few miles from Southrop, Mr. Thomas Mace 

 has been quietly breeding a herd from one animal named Butterfly 

 Duchess, until it has reached thirty-six females and the old lady 

 still breeding, while nearly the same number of produce of both sexes 

 have been sold, she must thus be reckoned one of the most prolific 

 animals in existence, and has been a handsome cow in her younger 

 days and is still graceful in her old age. In breeding she is a 

 daughter of Mr. E. L. Setts' Royal Cambridge 2i?d 25010, from a 

 Royal Butterfly 14th cow, both sires used in the old herd at 

 Sherbourne, the property of the late Mr. Thomas Mace. Red 

 Butterfly, a real good sort, was Butterfly Duchess' first calf, she has 

 also a very straight topped daughter in Red Butterfly 3rd and 

 another, Red Butterfly 4th, has Lord Penrhyn's Geneva's Duke 

 38349 for sire. Roan Butterfly, the mother of Red Hero, sold to 

 Mr. J. Game for 76gs., is also in the pasture with several 

 more fine shorthorn like animals. In wending our way towards 

 Eastleach, we find Roan Bntteifly 4th, a good looking young cow, 

 which has begun her breeding career by having produced the best 

 of three grand roan yearling heifers, by Prince Frogmore's Seal 48488. 

 Mr. Mace has recently purchased Yiscount Harrington 3rd 53797, 

 a level well proportioned two year old, bred at Elmhurst, and Lord 

 Roseberry 5th, a promising roan yearling, out of Red Rose of 

 Glamorgan. 



Maiseyhampton has been brought prominently into the front 

 ranks of dairy herds by the successes of Matchless 5th, at the London 

 dairy show, and as a breeding herd, the annual contingent of good 

 coloured youngsters, full of flesh and hair, sent to the great Birmingham 

 March sale has impressed the public favourably, if their prices are 

 to be taken as a criterion. Mr. Hobbs after using Duke 10145, 

 bought in 1850, bred like his neighbour, Mr. Edmonds, almost 

 exclusively from the Siddingtou herd by purchasing no less than 



