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omitted mention. Altogether Mr. Munton may be congratulated 

 on possessing a number of very good cows ; but it is in th*> younger 

 stock, where so many herds fail, that Mr. Munton especially excells, 

 and the grand half-dozen blood red yearling daughters of May 

 Duke, are "as like as peas." 



On arriving at Windsor, we wend our way through the town, 

 past the Grates of the Castle so well known to all loyal English- 

 men and enter a magnificent avenue of elms, which have stood for 

 many generations and still appear as graceful and noble as ever, 

 yet showing the approach of autumn, as here and there a leaf is 

 descending from its lofty seat upon the walk along the Royal Park, 

 which is so often travelled by young and old, but our destination is 

 the Prince Consort's Shaw Farm, causing us to turn abruptly to the 

 left before the first mile is covered. Having obtained the necessary 

 permission from Mr. VV. Tait (who succeeded his father, the late 

 Mr. H. Tait, in the management of the herds and farms, with which 

 his name was so honourably and successfully connected for many 

 years), there is no hindrance to our entering the farm premises 

 where the spacious buildings are arrayed as if they had been built by 

 an experienced hand, and the general neatness impresses us 

 most favourably as to the present management. It is not however 

 the buildings we have come to see, but their contents. 



The Windsor herd dates to the days when Mr. Majoribanks' 

 herd was kept in Bushey Grove, yet it was not until theFawsley sale of 

 1856 that the most important purchases were made, Cold Cream 

 and Alix, of the Furbelow and Walnut families, being then bought 

 for lOOgs. each. Prince Alfred 13494 (afterwards used in the 

 Imperial herd in France), was the first of a long series of bulls 

 hired from Warlaby, but in Field Marshal 47870, the present head 

 of the herd, quite a different line of blood is introduced, as he was 

 bred at Sittyton, although purchased a year ago from Mr. W. 

 Duthie, his fine masculine head, deep chest and flank, heavy thighs, 

 lengthy hindquarters, broad loin, well sprung ribs, neatly laid and 

 well covered shoulders, constitute him one of England's noblest sires, 

 unfortunately his age prevents his competing at the Eoyal, otherwise 



