456 SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. 



John Caddy having pin chased the original cow from Mr. Singleton, 

 of Ravenglass, in 1829, she was sent to Mr. Curwetvs Coroner 3497, 

 and produced Dairy Maid, the mother of the first Buttercup, whose 

 grand- daughter, Buttercup 3rd, was sold to Mr. W. Ashburner, in 

 whose hands the family was bred for three generations before passing 

 into Mr. Westwood's, who has followed his predecessor's example 

 by mating them with males containing Bates blood in their pedigree. 

 Georgiana of York 4th, a deep milking Bell Bates, has bred three 

 heifers, but the family have not the good looks of the Buttercups or 

 Duchesses of Grange. 



With Mr. E. Barton, of Wharton Grange, near the busy 

 Junction of Carnforth, his horses are "first favourites" and naturally 

 the cattle are not found quite so aristocratic in their breeding as they 

 would have otherwise been. From one of Mr. R. Botterill's Waulby 

 sales came a Lady Fortunate, of sound descent, and Cherry Oxtord 

 4th, tracing to Col. Cradock's Old Cherry. Peeress 15th, bought at 

 the dispersion of the Earl of Tankerville's herd, has the Aylesby 

 Fitz- Roland 33036 for sire, and since coming to Wharton Grange 

 has bred Mr. Barton two heifers, the older by Mr. Bruere's Vice 

 Eegal Booth 39258, and the other, a showy roan, by Wagner 48898. 

 Amongst the cows in profit, a good roan, from Col. Graham's 

 attracts our attention, and in the calf house, a promising youngster, 

 has Royal Ingram 50374 for sire. 



The delightful situation of Holker Hall, on the shores of 

 Morecambe Bay, is well known to the countless tens nay even 

 hundreds of those interested in good cattle, who have passed from 

 the comparatively unimportant station of Carke to the little village 

 of Holker, at the commencement of which are found a substantial 

 set of farm buildings, in close proximity to Mr. Drewry's residence, 

 so that the most valuable portions of the herd can be under his 

 constant supervision, but with such a trusty lieutenant as " George 

 Moore " in charge whose connexion with the herd has lasted for 

 twenty-eight years the latter can scarcely be deemed a duty but a 

 pleasure. The noble owner- -then known as the Earl of Burling- 

 ton was a purchaser at the Kirklevington sale of 1850, but the 



