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but excepting Twinkling Star, a grand-daughter of Autumnal Star, 

 calved in this country before Vernal Star's shipment to Canada, no 

 female produce are found in the herd. Advantage was taken by Mr. 

 Darby in 1874, on the occasion of the dispersion of the Acton 

 Burnett stock, to dispose of three of his tribes. Warlaby has supplied 

 King Harold 40053, King Hector 49809, King Eoderick 44999 and 

 Eoyal Mo\vbray 42330, on hire, and Czar 49348, a short legged 

 massive bull, wonderfully covered with grand hair, was purchased at 

 the dispersion of the Prinknash herd, his breeding is equal to the 

 Warlaby sires above mentioned, being by the Christon Lord Prink- 

 nash 2nd 38653, out of Zenaicla, a daughter of the beautiful Zvezda, 

 sad to say he is the last of this highly bred branch of the Bliss tribe, 

 which in Lady Pigot's possession produced the successful By this 

 25700, as well as Zvezda. 



In the Park we find Eose Eoyal one of the original purchases 

 of the Eose family with a rare old fashioned udder, and alongside 

 of her is Eosa Sabrina, her grand-daughter, by King Harold 40053. 

 Hill Dewberry 3rd, is a good fleshed young Cold Cream cow, so 

 favourite a sort at Windsor and Sandringham, but Clara Cleina, the 

 highest priced (leorgie at Knowlrnere is the best of the lot, with her 

 excellent ribs and well laid shoulders. Her dam, Clara Eegia, by 

 Eoyal Stuart 40646, from Claribel, bred at Killerby, was placed 

 third in the two year old class at Eeading. Several fields distant 

 are four handsome red two year old daughters of Eoyal Mowbray 

 42330, our favourites being Eosa Susanna and Nancy Mowbray, the 

 latter, a very wealthy good heifer, is however hardly firm enough in 

 her loin. Eosa Superba, from Eose Eoyal's sister Eosemary and 

 Nancy Booth, of a lighter hue in colour than any of her companions, 

 is a daughter of Nancy Lee, the first heifer calved by Cherry Eose 

 at Adcote, after her arrival from Kingsfort, where the family had 

 been for several generations crossed with Warlaby bulls, and of the 

 sires which compose Nancy Booth's pedigree, seven were bred by 

 the Messrs. Booth. Nearer the homestead are Leodine 4th, Eosa 

 Verbena * and Twinkling Star, in point of seniority, the white 

 Leodine ranks first, being nine years old in March, and the matron of 



