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although different in colour, the first born baing a red and the 

 second a roan. The compact and level Duchess of Holker, 

 belonging to the Duchess of Airdrie branch, has a useful red and 

 white son by Duke of York 9th, 51159, and Duchess of Killhow 

 has grown into a very pretty heifer although hardly on sufficient 

 scale. The Oxfords, numbering forty-eight females, are of two 

 branches, and with the exception of thirteen, all trace to the 

 Tortvvorth purchase, again they may be divided into three sub- 

 branches, one of which may be called "pure," in the sense in which 

 the term is now used, no sires excepting of tribes in Mr. Bates' 

 possession at his death having been allowed to mate with the 

 descendants of Oxford loth's daughter, Grand Duchess of Oxford 

 4th, while her other daughter, Countess of Oxford, was by the 

 Princess bull, Earl of Warwick 11412. and a further innovation 

 was introduced, when she bred a heifer to Dr. Dickinson's Priam 

 18567, having previously had the first of the Grand Duchesses of 

 Oxford to Mr. Bolden's Grand Duke 3rd 16182. Although Earl of 

 Warwick and Priam introduced a variety of fresh blood, yet the 

 grand array of first class Bates sires used during the past quarter 

 of a cantury have made the tribe all of one uniform type, more 

 especially the Tort worth branch, as it has been customary to send 

 Lady Oxford 5th and her descendants to the first Duke sires in the 

 kingdom. Grand Duchess of Oxford 32nd, the matron of the 

 family, is in the calving box, and the Thirty-fifth the two last 

 daughters of Duke of Wetherby 5th 31033 are fine handsome 

 red cows of large scale and robust constitutions. The Forty-sixth 

 and Fifty-third are an especially grand pair, and two of the best in 

 the herd, the younger being wonderfully good in her brisket, and 

 the older of extraordinary size and robustness. The Twenty-second 

 has quite the Bates gaiety of carriage, but passing into the Park, 

 it is the beautiful lot of heifers by Grand Duke 40th 41)371, that 

 are the most admired ; they are wonderfully alike with their lengthy 

 level frames and grand colours almost all b^ing rich roans which 

 tends to enhance their many other charms. To particularize would 

 be tedious, so we must be content with naming a few of the best : 



