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yearlings are seen on the opposite side of the homestead, where 

 Barbarina and Epitaph 34th, from two cows which averaged 676 

 gallons for last season, are our especial favourites, thus showing 

 that deep milkers can breed quite as attractive produce as indifferent 

 ones, and are much more profitable, thus why do not all breeders 

 only retain them ? 



After having travelled through a bleak and half-cultivated 

 district on the opposite side of Cirencester, locally pronounced 

 " Cicester " we suddenly have a change for the better, but this part 

 of the county being strange to us, we have not the opportunity of 

 knowing whether the land is of a better description, or the trans- 

 formation is owing to the occupier Mr. T. K. Hulbert who won 

 the Eoyal prize for large arable farms with North Cerney. when the 

 Society held its last meeting at Bristol. Mr. Hulbert's spacious 

 occupation of 1,100 acres is rented from Lord Bathhurst, and is a 

 farm somewhat more adapted for a good flock of sheep, than for a 

 herd of shorthorn cattle, but a spirited and enterprising tenant like 

 Mr. Hulbert feels sure that he is capable of producing both with 

 such a large area and variation in the quality of the land. A flock 

 of over 350 ewes are kept, of which two-thirds are Cotswolds, and 

 the remaining portion, Shropshires. Although out of their district, 

 the ownef informs us they answer remarkably well, and believes 

 there is little difficulty in having a pure flock of each. But as it is 

 more especially the cattle we have to deal with to-day, it may bfc 

 stated that Mr. Hulbert's first purchases were six animals from the 

 Marquis of Ailesbury's sale in 1874, and Countess 13th and 

 Victoria at the Siddington and Berkeley Castle auctions two years 

 'later, the last-named being now represented by her daughter, Victoria 

 Waterloo, a very massive cow of Bates character with a snowy 

 white calf by her side ; "her daughter Virgin, by Mr. Stratton's 

 Pearl Setter 43745, of a coarser description ; and a younger sister 

 by Harold 44920, being more to our fancy as a shorthorn. Gra/elle 

 45th, of the late Mr. Bowly's breeding, is a grand cow, but unfor- 

 tunately has no female offspring. 



