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Passing on fioni Fairfoid to Poulton Priory, we call at Marston 

 Hill and see Mr. F. P. Bulley's herd which has recently 

 produced the Royal winner B.uonet 52459. Lord of the Forest 4th 

 51622, bred at Pririknash, is a great lengthy three year old, suffering 

 from a tender foot and is thus seen at a disadvantage. His pre- 

 decessor, 8ir John Carew 2nd 47107, was also of Mr. Ackers' breeding 

 and closely related to his Yorkshire prize family of 1882. The 

 heifers are in some distant pastures and we have to be content with 

 seeing the cows which include several very fine daughters of Sir 

 John Carew 2nd. Rosebud, a deep fleshy sort is from a Dudgrove 

 cow ; Brown 6th and Brown 8th, are half-ulsters, one by a Bates 

 and the other by the Booth bull, from Brown oth, purchased from 

 Mr. C. Hobbs, the former appears to be an especially deep milker ; 

 but Lady Waterloo, a grand-daughter of Brown 5th, by one of the 

 Maiseyhampton Wellesleys, is considered by the manager to be one 

 of the best cows at the pail under his charge. Venus 8th, the 

 mother of Baronet, has a capital frame and let us hope the owner 

 may have the pleasure of winning a Royal victory with one of her 

 sons. Daisy, also of Venus ancestry, is very straight on her top, 

 while Red Rose is a stylish dark red of similar descent. 



Arriving at Poulton Priory, we find Mr. H. J. Marshall has 

 been carefully cultivating the milking properties of his cows for 

 several years and although not being able to compete successfully 

 with some of the records published from time to time, yet he has 

 succeeded in obtaining an appreciable improvement in the yield of 

 milk, last season out of his dairy of thirty cows, of which a third are 

 usually heifers having had their first calf, twelve of them including 

 two heifers gave an average of 646 gallons, and that of the 

 whole dairy at the weekly measurement a few days before our visit 

 in the month of August, with almost a total absence of grass, was a 

 fraction over two gallons per diem. Before resorting to the pur- 

 chase of pedigree females, Mr. Marshall began by using bulls of 

 shorthorn descent twenty-seven } ears ago, when Royalty was bought 

 from the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester, and five years 



