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the successful family group at the Shropshire and West Midland 

 show. This tribe is full of Messrs. Colling, Crofton and Jo bl ing's 

 blood, in the earlier generations, while naturally to be thought 

 worthy of a place in the rising Adcote herd, it. h is been in recent 

 years mossed with Booth. Twinkling Star, compact and level, with 

 grandly sprung ribs, is of excellent quality and appears likely to 

 breed some good bulls, but it is hoped so fine a representative of the 

 ancient Vesper tribe will leave female produce to perpetuate the 

 tribal name. In another pasture, Lady G-aiety, a giand heavily 

 fleshed roan of the "Angus" blood on both sides being out of the 

 Duke of Northumberland's Gaiety 3rd is greatly admired. 

 Claribel, her companion, has been a fine cow in her younger days, and 

 although suffering from a dislocated hip, is now heavy in calt to 

 King Hector 49809. In returning to Ba^church, we are shown 

 two more small groups, the first comp ising four young heifers of 

 Mr. Meade-Waldo's Sir Watkin's get, although great substance is 

 possessed by Eosa Morrella, yet Princess Gay out of Lady Gaiety- 

 is the most shapely of the quartette. In the adjoining pasture, 

 Lady Leodine, grazes with Nancy L?e and her daughter, Nancy Fell, 

 very handsome cattle of the Warlaby type. Mr. Darby's pens of 

 Berkshires and Cochin Chinas are well known by the frequency of 

 their successes at the shows, and we regret not having time to visit 

 them. 



Passing northwards to Ellesmere, we drive to see Mr. W. 

 Sheraton, at Broom House, who has been interested in shorthorns 

 for the past thirty-seven years, his first purchases being made at 

 Darlington Market in 1850, from Mr. R. Emmerson of Ery holme, 

 and Mr. Teasdale, of Darlington, while General Aylmer, of 

 Wai worth Castle, contributed the animal that proved the ancestress 

 of the Wai worth Ladies. Cattle were also bought from Mr. Forrest, 

 of Stretton, in Cheshire, and Major Poole, of Terrick Hall, Whitchurch, 

 the Lady Stowells being the names of the cattle tracing to the former 

 herd, and Halstead Ladies and Terrick Ladies to the latter. The 

 Lady Harpers, originally descended from Lord Hill's stock, were so 

 named on account of being bought of a Mr. Harper, in 1851, and 



