416 SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 



used with success at Elmhurst are well known in the annals of 

 shorthorn history. Four public sales have been held, and an average 

 of .147 14s. 9d. was made in 1877 for forty-four head, the later 

 selections were of more fashionable blood, and thus the failure of 

 the more recent sales to exceed the first, was no fault of the owner, 

 but occurred through the prevailing depression which has caused so 

 serious a relapse in the shorthorn market, as also in the commercial 

 world, because Mr. Fox had as before stated made purchases f i oin 

 many of the best herds not only in this country, but in America, and the 

 sires used, had been of the bluest blood, Duke of Wetherby 5th 

 31033, being purchased from Holker, after a considerable period of 

 service in that well known herd, whence also came hi.s son, Duke of 

 Oxford 39th 38173, bought to succeed the imported Duke of 

 Airdrie 24th. 



The Elmhurst herd is now found in the spacious buildings 

 bordering on the Park, it is not so extensive as in the days of old, but 

 of the choicest materials, all the leading Bates tribes excepting the 

 Duchesses being represented, and with the judicious use of sires, an 

 average greater than the one of ten years ago, ought to be realized, 

 when the overcrowding of the buildings renders a general invitation 

 to the public to gather together once more to partake of the owner's 

 hospitality necessary, as for those gentlemen who breed not only 

 the straightest of Bates pedigrees, but animals well made, and of 

 good constitutions, there will be always a market, and with the 

 re-opening of the Australian ports there is a gleam of sunshine 

 once more for breeders. Lord Birrington Bates 45063, in his 

 seventh year still reigns at the head of the herd, he was bred on 

 the premises, being by Grand Duke 31st 38374, from Lady Edith 

 Bates, purchased atUnderley in 1880 for 300gs. and is a light roan 

 of great length and substance, with grand masculine character, while 

 most of his produce possess the robustness and length of their 

 sire. Waterloo de Breos 2rd 53820, recently purchased from Sir 

 H. H. Vivian's herd, has the credit of the "Waterloos to maintain, 

 "as no females of this tribe an now at Elmhurst, and we hear 

 that the calves arriving by him a: ' \*3ry promising. Since our visit 



