404 SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 



On the opposite side of Cardiff, at the Home Farm of the 

 Marquis of Bute, whose name is so well known in connection with 

 the splendid docks adjoining the town, the herd numbering not 

 quite a " score " of all ages, is under the care of Mr. Templeton. 

 Patience, a roan heifer of considerable style and substance, has been 

 exhibited, her quality is not quite so much to our liking as that of 

 Quiver, from Quicksilver 10th, a good old cow of Mr. Hobbs' breeding, 

 afterwards seen in the Park in company with Premium 6th, a 

 squarely built white of large scale. Cleopatra's Needle, bred at 

 Laughton, and Julia, from Juniper Berry, bought at the dispersion 

 of Mr. W. Bliss' herd ; as well as Harmony, a great milker, and 

 Clarionet, her red attractive daughter. Included in the older heifers 

 are a roan Eose of Eaby, by Duke of Cumberland 49439, from the 

 handsome Eose of Eaby 3rd, bought at the Hindlip sale, and 

 Thorndale Blanche 3rd, out of a Grand Duke of Geneva 2nd cow, 

 bred at Churchill Heath, the remaining ones being out of the 

 matrons already mentioned. Daisy King, a capital roan yearling, 

 particularly good in his front and middle, was purchased in Bingley 

 Hall last March, for service in the herd, after being placed second 

 in a class of sixty. 



About two miles beyond the Cardiff Castle Home Farm, we 

 find Mr. H. J. E\ans laid the foundation of his Greenhill herd by 

 selecting from Lord Bute's shorthorns, Duchess, a cow of nice 

 quality, which has since proved a particularly good breeder and 

 heavy milker. The six families now in Mr. Evans' possession are 

 each represented by three female members. Minstrel 6th, a very 

 handsome specimen of Mr. Bowly's Musical tribe was purchased at 

 the Berkeley sale of 1882, and has five of the best of the Siddington 

 sires at the head of her pedigree. Stoneleigh Duchess 14th, another 

 very fine cow, was obtained at the dispersion of the late Mr. J. J. 

 Stone's herd. Princess Honey, of Kingscote origin, bought two 

 years later, at The Hendre, and on the succeeding day, Merry 

 Thought, from an own sister to Mr. Howell's grand cow, Merry 

 May, fell to Mr. Evans' bid at The Duffryn. Lastly, Music, 

 Minstrel, and Queen, tracing to Mr. Mason's No. 25, came from 





