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the Hawarden Ladies, after the mansion Hawarden Castle of Sir 

 S. Glynn. The ancestress of the Baroness Beethams and Lady 

 Hoppers also came in 1851, from the neighbourhood of Yarm, while 

 Actonia 4rh, was bought at the Scaleby Castle sale of 1868. Eiom 

 these purchases the herd is descended and most of the families are 

 of Mr. Sheraton's own "founding," he began by using Mr. B. 

 Stratton's Herod 14670, and the sires that have succeeded him have 

 been selected, either for personal merit, or owing to being descended 

 from what in the owner's opinion, were capital milking families, 

 included in the numerous array of sires which he has bought, have 

 been Lord Fitz-Hugh of Wen sley dale 26645, from the Earl of 

 Zetland, of the Sonsie tribe : May Duke 26885, bred by Mr. Tunni- 

 cliffe, out of a May Duchess, said to be a k ' fourteen to sixteen quart 

 cow" at a meal when on a good pasture ; The Sultan 40811, bied at 

 Alnwick, and Mr. Edmonds' Earl of Southrop 22nd 51191. Mr. 

 Sheraton has continued during the long period he has been a breeder, 

 to keep the milking properties in view, and we think perhaps to 

 some extent to the extreme of overlooking the good qualities of the 

 animal. 



After visiting Broom House, we are soon in company with 

 Mr. J. D. Owen, who drives us to his residence at Plasyn Grove, 

 surrounded by a nice estate of three hundred acres of mixed soil, 

 evidently it will grow shorthorns by the class of cattle we find grazing 

 on it. Pedigree cattle have only been bred by Mr. Owen for nine 

 years, when several purchases were made at Major Conwy's sale in 

 1878, and two years later, Twilight, Barrington Belle 2nd and Lord 

 Muncaster 2nd 43542, came fiom Winterfold, the male was used 

 very successfully, as witness the exceedingly fine cows by him now 

 at Plasyn Giove. A fuither addition of th*ee females was made in 

 1885, at Capt. Mytton's sale, but previously Mr. Sheraton had 

 supplied him with the same number, as well as Duke of Hamilton 

 3rd 4-3103, the first pedigree male used by Mr. Owen. Oxford 

 Bruom 48394 and several cows were obtained from Mr. Topham, 

 and lastly, Lord Waterloo 4th 53228, came from the Osgodby .herd, 

 he is massive without coarseness, his shoulders are well laid and not too 



