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Llanrumney Eosebud, by Eed Eover 46963. Lady Gwynne, 

 another grand old matron, displaying nice shorthorn character, is 

 however only a recent acquisition, having been purchased with her 

 calf, New Year's Gwynne, by Lord Lat horn's Prince of Cranes 2nd 

 45387, thus combining the two different branches descended from 

 Mr. Eobert Collings' Princess, which report credited with having 

 been sold for TOOgs. in the early part of the century, to Sir H. 

 Vane Tempest, Bart., and whose daughters, Nell Gwynne and Elvira, 

 proved such extraordinary milkers. Lady Daisy 2nd, a very level 

 roan, is the best specimen of milk and flesh combined in one animal, 

 as she has a particularly nice udder, and Mignon Daisy 5th, also of 

 this family is another straight young cow. Turning riverwards after 

 seeing the dairy cows, and passing through a nice piece of coppice, 

 suitable alike for either reynard or pheasants, we come in view of 

 the best crop of swedes seen this season, in the pasture to the right, 

 are a small flock of Oxfordshire Down ewes, with a fine ram of Mr. 

 Albeit Brassey's in their company, and on the left, the heifers. 

 George Eosedale 2nd 47949, a dark red robust five year old, of 

 excellent quality, was bred at Kingscote, from the Bell Bates Georgie 

 Hillhurst 6th. His young stock are satisfactory and Mr. Williams 

 intends in future never to purchase a sire without seeing its dam, would 

 that mote owners of pedigree cattle, who attempt to breed not only 

 purely dairy shorthorns, did likewise, and even go a step further, by 

 seeing the dam of the sire, then we might hope to find the shorthorn 

 breed still more popular for its dairy and flesh forming qualities 

 than it is at the present day. 



Mandiff Court has a beautiful situation on the Welsh borders, 

 in close proximity to Pen-y-Va], otherwise the Sugar Loaf Mountain, 

 the summit of which is nearly two thousand feet in height. The 

 late Mr. Crawshay Bailey, was an extensive purchaser at the 

 Pencraig Court sale of 1879, he having bought nine females of the 

 Strawberry branch of the Old Daisies, and with the exception of Mr. 

 Richard Stratton's Prairie Flower and her daughter, Precious 

 Flower, the present herd are entirely descended from these pur- 

 chases, from the latter breeder came Ameer 40974, of the Moss 



