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off future honours, to add to the numerous display already on the 

 sideboard in the dining room. The Gillivers include the, Lorns, 

 which obtained the family prize at the Shrewsbury Eoyal, Lady 

 Lorn, and Countess of Lorn, although wealthy good cattle, have not 

 the graceful beauty of Winsome Gem, she has the true character of 

 a shorthorn, yet cannot compete with her often-times showyard 

 companion, Ruby 19th, in the evenness of her lines. As regards the 

 Bates tribes, the Kirklevingtons may be deemed to have front rank, 

 and Kirklevington 29th the mother of a nice young heifer 

 promises to develope into a useful matron. The Duchess Nancies, 

 Fantails, Lady Bells and Places, also of Bell Bates origin, appear to 

 specially excel in their milking properties. The Wild Eyes' have 

 two branches, Lady Winsome 4th and Lady Winsome 5th the latter 

 a very taking heifer are from Wayward Eyes, bought at TJnderley 

 in 1879, while Wild Eyes SS'-h, in her tenth year, appears very 

 blooming and has a growing two year old daughter Baroness Wild 

 Eyes 2nd grazing on the hill-side. Worcester Daisy, from Cawood's 

 Mignon, bought at Mr. Oaggs' sale, is one of the most fancied of 

 the younger stock, included in which is a substantial Knightley 

 Walnut, as well as an Ursula of Didrnarton fame, whose dam 

 Duchess Ursula 4th is one of the best of the matrons. Princess' 

 descendants of the Elvira, Minstrel, Biddenham and Rougholm 

 branches of the Gwynnes, number into the "teens," none is more 

 massive than the aged Oxford Gwynne, and the only female Elvira, 

 Princess of Kiikby 2nd, once more it must be added that the tribe 

 are popular in the herd for their milking qualities, and Florence 

 Gwynne a beautiful type of a " dairy shorthorn," has not long been 

 sold to go into Cheshire. 



Passing over the heights of Kirkby Moor to Ulverston, and 

 proceeding by rail from that place to Carnforth, we call at the 

 fashionable watering place of Grange, to see Mr. T. Westwood's 

 family of Buttercups, or now better known as the Duchesses of 

 Grange, with which he has carried off many honours at the district 

 shows. They are found a sy in metrical lot of cattle, and worthy of 

 the descent from the old established Rougholm stock, the late Mr. 



