362 SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 



Euby 3rd, it is the owner's intention to use on the heifers. Weston 

 Gazelle 2nd, a highly bred specimen of her tribe, whoso family had 

 passed through the herds of Ashdown House and Weston Park before 

 arriving at Maiseyhampton, has had a cow calf since her arrival. 



The Matchlesses and Quicksilvers, are descended from Matchless 

 and Kiss me-Q.uick, bought at Mr. John Lane's sale in 1864, here 

 again the various animals are known by number and we observe it 

 is the practice to so name all females bred on the farm, th0 Twentieth 

 and Twenty-first, of the former family are a pair of nice cows, while 

 Quicksilver 9th, has an extensive udder, but not near so shapely as 

 many of Mr. Hobbs' animals. Of the Fannies, the Twenty -fifth is the 

 best of five and has, like the Eighteenth, bred a Bingley Hall 

 winner. Constance and Darlington 3rd, although quite alone in 

 representing their different families, the owner has every reason to 

 be satisfied with their appearance when compared with the more 

 numerously represented ones. The yearling heifers are a nicj lot and 

 with the exception of Lady Lumley from The Wolds, are all by 

 Devonshire 47686, a handsome red bull bred at Hindlip from that 

 fine cow Darling which has done excellent service. Two roan 

 Musicals are our favourites of the yearlings, but a Quicksilver takes 

 precedence in an older lot, where we find the solitary Orange 

 Blossom. In addition to Devonshire, whose sons and daughters are 

 so promising, Mr. Hobbs has purchased two still more fashionably 

 bred males, Duke of Brunswick 51009, descended from Tenth 

 Duchess of Geneva of New York Mills fame, having come from the 

 dispersion of the Ullenwood herd, and Thorndale Duke 3rd 53754, 

 from Audley End, where he had been sent by his breeder Mr. A. H. 

 Lloyd to be sold in company with the famous Thorndale Roses, to 

 which tribe he belongs. His dam has already been favourably 

 noticed in The Harewoods herd, and of the two later acquisitions of 

 Mr. Hobbs' we prefer the dark red masculine like animal hailing 

 from Surrey, although " His Grace " has many good points, yet he 

 might have been of greater scale, but mated with the large fine 

 cows at Maiseyhampton there will be little fear of the produce 

 wanting in this respect. 



