414 SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 



Returning to Shrewsbury, we depart early the next morning to 

 visit the Rev. IT. Beck with, of Eaton Constantine, who is an 

 admirer of a well descended shorthorn, with a pedigree containing 

 a dash of Booth. Mr. Beckwith has been a breeder since isiis, 

 when he purchased Bonne Bouche, by Mr. Richaid Booth's Sir 

 Roger !(){)!)!, a grand-daughter of Mr. B. Wilson's Bra with Lass. 

 Jn 1871, Chemois, representing Mr. R. Ceiling's Blight Eves tribe, 

 came fiom Mr. C. Stubbs' sale. Lastly, Peeress, of the Lavender 

 family, \v,is bought from Mr. T. Harris, of Stoney Lane. The sires 

 used h.ive frequently had a preponderance of the blood of either 

 Warlaby or Killerby in their veins, the most recent having been 

 Prince Fragrant 43795, Herod 49718, and Hecatomb 4H4S9 own 

 brothers and Paymaster 53395, from Artfeit, Acton Burnell, and 

 Mertoun. The entire herd are descended from the three oiiginal 

 purchases, and number forty head, the, animals are only of medium 

 size, owing to some extent to the limited accommodation and the 

 number of stock bred upon it. The eight young bulls in preparation 

 for Bingley Hall are principally sons of the neat and short 

 legged Paymaster 53295. 



After returning from Mr. Beckwith's, we proceed to Newport, 

 and thence to Sheriff Hales Manor, the residence of Mr. G. T. 

 Phillips, where we find a compact little herd, all descended fiom 

 Honeysuckle, bought from Mr. Bradburn in 1870, and tracing to 

 Mr. Colling's Wellington 680 and Favourite 25'2. It has been Mr. 

 Phillips' practice to send most of his cows for service to the late 

 Mr. S. L. Horton's bulls the breeder of Ruckley 50398 and 

 annually dispose of his male produce, like most of the Shropshire 

 breeders, at Birmingham each year, and the female portion of the 

 herd is in this manner also reduced from time to time, and at present 

 consists of about a dozen, but they are cattle of large scale, and 

 a taking character, each animal showing afamily likeness. Charming 

 Princess a daughter of Honeysuckle in her sixteenth year, would 

 make a worthy matron of an) I.ibe, yet Snowdrop, her niec?, at 

 eleven years of age, is quite on a ! equality with her on every point, 

 she has been the winner at m ..sy an agricultural .show, and her 



