380 SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 



On reaching Newport, our first enquiry is for The Duffryn, and 

 on arriving there we have the misfortune to find Mr. Richard 

 Stratton absent from home. The family have long been connected 

 with a breed of cattle which may be said to have been of their own 

 founding, as the short legged, heavily fleshed animals of medium 

 size, inclining more to the Booth type than the Bates, have been 

 long and honourably known in English showyards, but the greatest 

 successes achieved in late years have been in the Halls at Birmingham 

 and Islington at Christmas time; Mr. Stratton in 1878 and 1882 

 winning the champion at Smithfield, and on two other occasions the 

 champion in the female classes, while from 1849 to 1871, six gold 

 and fourteen silver medals were won by Mr. Stratton's father, whose 

 herd at Broad Hinton was commenced by the purchase of Phoenix 

 6290, in the year 1838, one of his get, named Moss Eose and her 

 daughter, Young Moss Eose, by Mr. Adkins' Lottery 4280, proved 

 extraordinary prolific, and at the respective ages of twenty and 

 seventeen years, their portraits appeared in the Farmer's Magazine. 

 From the descendants of Moss Eose and her daughter have sprung 

 the best of the " Stratton " the name has almost become as familiar 

 as Bates and Booth, amongst showyaid frequenters cattle, and of 

 the one hundred animals which comprise the present herd, the 

 greater part are their descendants, while many of the sires used at 

 Broad Hinton, Alton Priors, and The Duffryn, have been of this 

 family, and the time of our visit is no exception, as Pilot 51837, a 

 level white two year old of excellent quality, with a deep full chest 

 and good wide loin, but if anything hardly of sufficient scale, is 

 assisting Fitz Mowbray 49591, hired from Warlaby, to prevent 

 the deterioration of the herd with regard to size, on account of the 

 somewhat close breeding followed by the owner, as with the 

 exception of Bellerophon 47471 and Rob Eoy 29806, nothing but 

 Moss Eose males have been used since the foundation of the herd, 

 sixteen years ago, although Booth blood had been introduced at 

 Broad Hinton ty the purchase of bulls bred at Athelstaneford 

 and Westland, and Mr. Ackers' Crowned Victor 36408 is the 

 grandsire of Pilot, while Pearl Diver 3718-, a son of Col. Lloyd 



