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by Mr. Cochrane, were offered on the heights above Lake Winder- 

 mere, who present will forget the cheers that arose when the highest 

 priced female ever sold on British soil was announced as having 

 become the property of the owner of the Underley herd. Excepting 

 Duchess 126th, the roan calf bought at Hindlip, evidently as a sort 

 of memento of the departure of the larger portion of the family once 

 more to the American continent, the remainder of the tribe are of 

 the Grand Duchess branch. When the late Mr. Oliver first gave 

 the public the opportunity of competing for specimens of the Grand 

 Duchesses, no one was more ready to take advantage of it than Lord 

 Bective, who paid 2,750gs. for the Twenty-third, she proved an 

 excellent bull breeder, and the only heifer born at Underley Grand 

 Duchess 45th is visiting Ninth Duke of York 51159, at Duncombe 

 Park in company with her daughter, Grand Duchess 58th, the result 

 of mating her with Mr. Aylmer's Baronet 4729(5, and one of the 

 Storrs heifers. Grand Duchess 56th is away at Ruddington Hall, 

 to try the introduction of the Waterloo blood, so successful when 

 experimented on at Sholebioke, and it might be added also at 

 Underley, as Grand Duke 31st 38374, the son of Grand Duke of 

 Waterloo 34577 and Grand Duchess 17th, has proved a valuable 

 sire for the ten years he has been in service, and now when only a 

 month from completing his eleventh year, he is as active and vigorous 

 as ever, and may be described as a bull of large scale with a noble 

 front worthy of the ancient line he repiesents. At the dispersion 

 of the Sholebroke cattle, four of the fifteen Grand Duchesses were 

 secured for Underley. Grand Duchess 42nd, the matron of the 

 tribe, may well be described as a " Duchess all over," when her grace- 

 ful compact form and exquisitely moulded front passes before us. 

 Grand Duchess 53rd, accompanied her dam Grand Duchess 42nd 

 from Sholebroke, and excepting a slight failing in the quarters, will 

 develope into a useful matron, her first calf, Grand Duchess 60th, 

 having already realized more than the cost price of the mother, but 

 the gem of the sale was Grand Duchess 59th, from the beautiful 

 Grand Duchess 42nd, while an older sister, Grand D'ichess 57th, 

 was retained, and with such a dam, and Grand Duke 3 1st for sire, 



