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priced cow (115gs) at Mr. Stratton's sale three years ago when an 

 average of 43 3s. Id. was made for the forty head. Day Dream 

 has a roan son at the homestead, with a tremendous coat, but 

 it is Bo-peep and Golden Fleece, both quite of the " Stratton" type 

 that engage our thoughts as we are hurried off to distant meadows 

 to see a large contingent of dry cows and heifers, with a few suckling 

 their calves, comprising a total of some forty to fifty head. In the 

 nearer of the two meadows we admire Lustre, a beautiful fronted 

 heifer, Timbrel 5th, a white, of a family, bred for many years at 

 Artfert, tracing to April Daisy, by Belshazzar 1763, but Wild 

 K-ose, a roan, out of March liose is the handsomest. Again in the 

 adjoining field the exceedingly level roan, Timbrel 9th, out of 

 Timbrel 4th, immediately attracts attention ; Picotee, a Moss Rose 

 with beautifully level shoulders, is engaged in suckling a cow calf ; 

 a Llanwern does not disgrace the family name, but it is the grand 

 old matron, Maid of Isis, by Twentieth Duke of Oxford 28432, from 

 Maid of Athens, that is most admired, with such an example of 

 success from the union of a Bates sire with a home-bred cow, it is 

 almost a wonder that the owner has not ventured further experiments 

 in this direction. 



Leaving The Duffryn, we proceed to Llanrumney Hall, about 

 five miles distant, where the river Kuraney only divides Mr. G. C. 

 Williams' estate from the " Principality." Mr. Williams believes 

 like Mr. Stratton, that shorthorns should milk, and in fact not only 

 pay for their keep, but yield a profit in addition. The milk is sent 

 into Cardiff twice every day, and the purchases are selected with 

 regard to their dairy properties, and any animal which does not reach 

 Mr. Williams' standard is drafted. The herd was founded seven 

 years ago, by the purchase of Portrait 9th, with her daughter, 

 Rosebud, by Grand Duke of Geneva 2nd 31288, of the Bioadmoor 

 Pye tribe, from the late Mr. J. R. Homfray, of Penllyn Castle, the 

 former came in calf to Lord Hindlip's Confirmative 4563, and 

 Llanrumney Portrait was the produce, but she is not so handsome 

 as Rosebud, a very fine cow, one of whose sons has been exported 

 this year to Buenos Ayres and she also has a promising daughter in 



