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appear extremely heavy milkers and Wild Duchess of Geneva 5th, 

 bred at Gaddesby, has recently had twins. In another pasture, 

 Lady Jane and Lady Jeannie, a pair of good looking dark red 

 Barmpton Roses, trace to Col. Townley's "Rose of Lancashire, which 

 branch passed to Pencraig, from whence they travelled to Charlton. 

 Coy Blush, in her fifteenth year, is the only doubtful cow in the 

 herd, and considering how beautiful she was in her younger days, it 

 seems a pity to part with her, yet Mr. De Vitre has a daughter and 

 grand-daughter to keep up the Blush branch, which was the late 

 Mr. B^ever's favourite, and 400gs. it is said was offered in vain for 

 Coy Blush, when at Pencraig. Townley Belle, Townley Memento, 

 and Dereham Butterfly, are of three different lines of the Barmpton 

 Rjses, one going back to Rose of Lancashire, another to Paris 

 Butterfly, by the illustrious Master Butterfly 1331, and the third to 

 the Duchess of Lancasters, which were conspicuous in the second 

 Townley herd. The latest arrivals in the calf pens are by Gerald 

 3rd 46419, while three older ones are by a son of old Coy Blush's 

 and in naming the calf, by Oxford Duke of Killhow 6th 50130, out 

 of Lady Alice Siddington, Charlton, the owner has followed the late 

 Mr. Bowly's example with the tribe originally, as the Siddingtons 

 acquired their name from his residence. The older heifers are in an 

 off lying pasture near to Wantage Road Station, here we have 

 Chatter, of the Chaff tribe, Wild Duchess of Charlton, Princess 

 Blanche a lineal descendant of the beautiful Royal Butterfly's 

 Duchess as well as Barmpton Roses and Old Daisies, all reared in 

 a natural state thus being more likely to ensure the thorough 

 development of the milk glands. 



