SHORTHORN HERDS OF EN&LA.AD. 



betwixt those of his brothers and in view of the old family home. 

 He at once purchased animals of the tribes most prized by the family 

 from the herds at Broadmoor and Churchill Heath, and at their 

 dispersion shortly afterwards, he obtained a number of fine cattle. 

 Mr. Game in laying the foundation of his herd had the advantage 

 of selecting from cattle whose pedigrees had assisted in building up 

 nearly half-a-century previously, and his successes in the show yard 

 are almost a natural consequence. For the three past seasons 

 more different animals have been successfully exhibited from the 

 Great Rissington herd than from any other in the kingdom, and 

 certainly the owner deserves great praise in endeavouring to main- 

 tain the superiority of the breed in such a high lying district, and 

 although the middle of March, snow is on the ground and falling 

 fast around us, as we pass from yard to yard, thus our notes are 

 taken under most disadvantageous circumstances, while the cattle, 

 when brought out for inspection from their comfortable quarters, 

 have as great a dislike as ourselves for the unseasonable weather. 



The herd, numbering close on one hundred head, are in splendid 

 order, and the land on which they are bred, being of a sweet lime 

 stone brash, it is healthy for breeding, but too weak and thin for 

 growing large frames without artificial help. The twenty-seven Pyes 

 are the most prominent family in the present herd, as they were at 

 Broadmoor, in the days of old, and they have once more asserted 

 their superiority by producing that beautiful heifer, Petted Pansy, the 

 most successful of any animal bred by Mr. Game. She has a sweet 

 feminine head and horn, with great depth of chest, good shoulders 

 and underline, while her ribs are well sprung, and quality of flesh 

 exceptionally fine, yet her quarters might be a little lengthier. 

 Scotland's Pansy, a fine shorthorn-like cow, in addition to breeding 

 the successful white heifer, has had a second Petted Pansy, to Mr. 

 Attwater's Hope 49730, a bull of the Stratton Moss Rose tribe. 

 Frogmore Pansy, from Scotland Pansy's half-sister, was obtained 

 with Prussian Pansy, Scotland's Pansy and Prussian Pansy 3rd, 

 from Mr. J. Houlton, who had been a buyer at Broadmoor. 

 Frogmore Pansy, bred two nice heifers to Mr. Lloyd's Waterloo 



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