426 SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Tlie Lancashire Herds. Lathom House. Springwood. Croxto n 

 Hull. Lime/ield House. Livesey. Moreton Hall. Penwortham 

 Priory. Clifton Hill. Scale Hall. South Westmoreland Herds. 

 Arkholme. W rayton Hall. Underley Hall. Rigmaden Park. 

 Coat Green. Thorn Leiijh. GreenJiead. Deepthwaite Honw. 

 Hohnscales. Sedywick. Water Crook. The Lound. Lane Foot. 

 Skehincrnh Hall. Cleabarroic. Lancashire Herds (continued). 

 Colthouse. Hawkshead Hall. Coniston Bank. Low Hall. 

 Grange. Wharton Grange. Holker Hall. 



Lancashire, although largely covered with manufacturing 

 towns, has many a quiet corner in which shorthorns are bred with 

 as great zeal as in the more favoured counties, and several oF the most 

 successful sales in connection with the breed have taken place 

 within its area. Crossing that important centre of commercial 

 life Liverpool and proceeding to Ormskirk by a section of the 

 "Lancashire and "Yorkshire," we are within three miles of Lathom 

 House, where resides the Right Hon. the Earl of Lathom, the 

 possessor of one of the purest Bates herds in the kingdom. The 

 herd was founded in 1864, by purchases made at the TWnley sale, 

 afterwards the leading sales of the day supplied other animals, but 

 it was not until 1873 that the noble owner then known as Lord 

 Skelmersdale made his famous purchase First Duchess of 

 Oneida at New York Mills in 1873, for 3000 gs., and which has 

 since proved the most prolific of the tribe sold that day, and indeed 

 we may add that there is not a single descendant from any of the 

 females sold on that occasion, excepting First Duchess of Oneida, 

 from whom the owner has sold three females, Duchess of Ormskirk, 

 reaching 2000gs., at the sale of 1879, when over o300 was the 

 average of not quite a score of females, while two heifers were the 

 highest priced animals at the latter sale, and in addition four are 

 now at Lathom, Duchess of Ormskirk 2nd, a handsome red and 



