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closely after from Mi. T. Strickland's. Circe's Queen, full of the 

 famous Telemichus blood, has been probably the most successful 

 purchase, having had five calves, May Queen, the oldest, being the 

 prettiest co\v in the herd, while the mother is a useful heavy fleshed 

 sort. Lord Derwent 46442, a son of Grand Duke 31st 38374 and 

 Darlington 26th, is a massive white, to whom Circe's Queen and 

 two of her daughters had cow calves last season, v hile Georgiana 

 Derwent, has a Bell Bates pedigree tracing to Mr. Thos. Bell's 

 Georgiana 5th. Mr. Burrow also breeds some very good Wensleydale 

 long-woolled sheep, and has an excellent market for the rams for 

 crossing purposes. 



Underley has been the home of Shorthorns for almost a "score" 

 of years, and no breeder, we venture to state, is better known and 

 more widely esteemed than the noble owner, the Right Hon. Earl 

 of Bective, M.P., in support of this assertion, the Underley sales 

 have always compared most favourably with the others of their 

 respective seasons, and the most recent, only held a month before 

 our visit, has quite placed in the shade the remainder of the Bates 

 auctions of the year. The Killhow sale in 1868, witnessed the 

 beginning of the herd, whose name was to become known all over 

 the civilized world and the Underley Darlings descended from 

 Turk's Darling form one of the most prominent and favourite 

 families in the herd, where they have been retained on account of 

 their great milking properties. The Park, through which winds the 

 River Lune, is an excellent grazing ground for shorthorns, while 

 artificial food has not been used to such an extent as to impair the 

 breeding and dairy properties of the cattle, thus they are found 

 very healthy, and well coated with hair. The Duchesses are the most 

 prominent of the dozen families (counting the recent purchases at 

 Storrs) and the Grand Duchess tribal name having been preserved, 

 it appeared a veritable Springfield, with " Frank " in attendance, but 

 he has now retired. It was from the States that the tribe were first 

 brought to Underley, and the 6,000gs. paid for Tenth Duchess of 

 Geneva will remain a prominent "laud mark" in the history of the 

 breed, while when the pair of Duchess of Hillhurst heifers, sent over 



