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competition at the London Dairy Show, while Broadmoor Fogga- 

 thorpe, is one of the handsomest animals in the herd and a very 

 regular breeder, having produced five calves before being five years 

 old. 



The day following our visit to Great Eissington we enter 

 Oxfordshire, and shortly after passing Churchill Heath, we reach the 

 Sarsden Lodge Farm, now in the occupation of Mr. Matthew 

 Savidge, who has bred pedigree cattle on it since 1864, when the 

 herd with which he had been so long connected, came to an honour- 

 able termination under the hands of Mr. Strafford, when one 

 hundred and twenty one animals averaged 42 1 8s. 6d., and at that 

 sale he purchased jointly with his neighbour, Mr. Cradock, Eoyal 

 Arch Second, of the Chaff tribe, and Silver Crescent, by Col. 

 Gunter's Archduke 2nd 15588, a cow which had been unfit to offer 

 at the auction, and there are now thirty-five animals descended from 

 her on the farm. Mr. H. Webb had bought Charity at the sale of 

 1864, and at his sale eight years later, Mr. Savidge bought her daughter 

 Faith, whose son, Eoyal Hope (by Mr. Talbot Crosbie's Eoyal 

 Blithesome 40620), put to her half-sister, Cherry Blossom, produced 

 a remarkably fine white cow, Cherry Bloom, considered the best of 

 those in milk, and her son, Monarch 54728, after being used at home, 

 has recently been disposed of to a Mr. Ireland. Mr. T. G. Cm-tier's 

 sale eleven years ago, contributed a third and last family in the 

 Knightley Walnut cow, Young Wheedle, which after breeding twin 

 heifers, Miss Wheedle and Miss Wedlock, produced nothing but 

 the opposite sex. Miss Wheedle was sold to Mr. J. Walter, M.P., 

 for lOOgs. for exhibition purposes, while Miss Wedlock bred Lady 

 Waterloo, by Mr. Oliver's Grand Duke of Waterloo 3rd 43321, a 

 second very fine white, which in turn has produced Midsummer 

 Pride to Hindlip Prince 4th 48024, considered by the owner the 

 best of the Princess bull's get, privately purchased by him from Sir 

 H. Allsopp's herd. The Knightleys have retained their habits pi 

 fertility, and a dozen trace to the twin retained by Mr. Savidge, for 

 breeding purposes. The second sire used on the farm was Harold 

 28814, bought at the Milcote sale of 1864. and the Knightley blood 



