SHORTHORN HKHDS OF ENGLAND. 4.">."> 



Westtnoteland is once more entered from the important junction 

 at Carnforth, and although Arkholme, is the Midland station for 

 Underlay, we have yet tvvo "calls" to make, before proceeding 

 thither. AVithin ten minutes walk from the station, Mr. W. S. 

 Ciagg, for nearly thirty years, has bred from the best stocks in the 

 district and in the autumn of 1875, the thirty-eight head, brought 

 under Mr. Thornton's glass, averaged over ,45, an excellent result, 

 as beyond the purchase of shorthorn bulls and Lucretia at the Hay 

 Carr sale of 1861, all the animals had pedigrees founded by Mr. 

 Crsgg thiough using good males on the dairy cattle of the district. 

 More especially must be mentioned the ancestress of the Lady 

 Ca woods, who was supposed to have been bred by the Bishop of 

 Carlisle, she came in calf to a bull of Sir Charles Tempest's pedigree 

 unknown which in due time was sent to Horton Bay V/050, and 

 the produce is the first registered cross in the Lady Ca wood's 

 pedigree. Pievious to the sale twelve years ago, Mr. Bowly's 

 Captain Tregunter 28136 had been used, and males of Bates blood 

 have succeeded him. The three Lady Cawoods now in Mr. Cragg's 

 possession include Lady Cawood 16th, by the Duchess bull, Duke of 

 Leicester 43112. The Lucretias of the old Maynard blood, are 

 descended fiom Lucretia, purchased at the Hay Carr sale of 1861, 

 whose ancestress, Flora, was brought into the district in 1839, from 

 Mr. John Ceilings' sale, held at Whitehouse, near Greta Bridge, 

 having cost 31gs. at the sale, together with 3 12s. additional for 

 expenses before reaching her destination. There are still five 

 females in the heid comprising Lucretia 6th, a good square fiam/d 

 co\v, by Capfc. Tregunter 28136, and her four. daughters excepting 

 the youngest, a pretty roan are by Earl Ashton 39808, a remarkably 

 fine Winsome bull, used by Mr. Cragg, and afterwards sold to Mr. 

 Drewry for service in the Holker herd. 



Ciossing the Eiver Lune, Mr. llobeit Burrow is found at 

 home, but the owner's name is much better known in the district 

 for the success of his horses than by the doings of the herd which 

 he quietly breeds at Wrayton Hall. The Medora cow, Lady Bright 

 Eyes, was the fiist purchase, and The Belle and Sultana, followed 



