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inclined to turn their attention towards such highly bred females as 

 Mr. Airey has been purchasing for Mr. Worsley -Taylor, during the 

 past three years, but considering that a brother of Mr. James 

 Knowles of Limefield, has for many years had charge of the 

 Home Farm, it is not to be wondered that a " bit of Bates " should 

 at last find its way into the pastures bordering on the river Calder. 

 Of the three families which may be described as the "remnant" of 

 the herd owned by Miss Filling-Taylor, the one tracing through the 

 Beaumont Grange herd, to a good ancient foundation, comprising 

 the cross of Blyth Comet 85, who had the illustrious " Comet " for 

 both sire and grand-sire may be pronounced to contain the choicest 

 blood, and certainly when the massive red and white Harriet is 

 viewed, it may be also said to own one of the best animals, but 

 Lady Lucy, descended from Clove, by Tom of Lincoln 8714, 

 purchased at Broughton Hall, in 1842, when the foundation of the 

 Moreton Hall herd was laid, may be said to surpass Harriet with 

 her massive beauty, she has for fifth sire, Orion 18487, bred on the 

 estate, and winner at the Leeds Royal in 1861, as a yearling. Rose 

 of Waterloo 2nd and Cambridge Fantail 2nd, a pair of fashionably 

 bred young cows, have recently produced female produce to Lord 

 Oswald 53195, a dark roan massive bull purchased privately from 

 "Wetherby, for service in the herd, he is a son of Duke of Tregunter 

 9th 46272 and Ondine, what few calves have been dropped appear 

 very promising. The Old Daisies have been acquired on no less 

 than four different occasions, Daisy, coming from Bingley Hall, 

 bred Moreton Daisy 2nd, while the first had been calved by Rosalie 

 Daisy, bought with Mignon 2nd, an exceedingly handsome cow at 

 Mr. W. S. Cragg's last sale whence also came Sweetheart and 

 Gazelle heifers while Siddington Blush 2nd was fancied by Mr. 

 Airey, when Sir H. H. Vivian sent his contingent to be sold at 

 Langleybury, it is thus evident that the tribe is to be one of the 

 strongest at Moreton Hall. A Waterloo was secured at Pool Park 

 and a Lady Worcester at Dringhouses, while a couple of heifers 

 from the dispersion of the Upholland herd, form the conclusion of 

 the recent additions. 



