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His last or fourth herd numbered about fifty head, 

 fifteen of them bulls, and was located at the High 

 Grange, near Melsonby, where Mr. Wetherell took 

 quarters for them in consequence of not meeting with 

 a suitable farm. A drive of three miles from Aid- 

 borough brings you to the spot, which is nearly the 



same show, and Lord Feversham's, Mr. Booth's, Mr. Trotter's, and 

 Mr. Wetherell's were all highly commended. Barmpton Rose was also 

 an illustrious unit in the Newton Hall herd ; but after Mr. Wetherell 

 had bred Princess Royal from her, he sold her in calf with Buttercup to 

 Mr. Henry Watson, of Walkeringham, at her prime cost, 53 guineas ; 

 and at that gentleman's sale she and her nine descendants made 1033 

 guineas. Mr. Wetherell had originally purchased the mare Morsel for 

 about the same sum, sent her to Physician, and sold her when she was 

 in foal of The Cure ; and so, in this instance, the embryo calf Butter- 

 cup became the dam of Butterfly, who, when crossed with the once- 

 neglected Frederick, produced not only the unbeaten, but the highest- 

 priced bull that the world ever saw. This is not Mr. Wetherell's only 

 connexion with the Towneley herd, as Mr. Eastwood purchased 

 Blanche 5th, by Bates's renowned Duke of Northumberland, out of 

 Blanche 2nd, from him, and bore off Roan Duchess, by Whittington,' 

 out of Red Duchess, by Cleveland Lad 2nd, as well. Red Duchess 

 and Blanche 5th were both bought by Mr. Wetherell from Mr. Maw, 

 who had in his turn bought Blanche 5th from Mr. Bates. Mr. East- 

 wood's pair kept each other company, not only in the journey to Lan- 

 cashire, but through their daughters in after years, in the yard at the 

 Chelmsford Royal, where, after passing into Colonel Towneley's hands, 

 Roan Duchess 2nd was first in the cow class, and the red-and-white 

 Blanche 6th next to her. 



It was with Blanche 5th and Red Duchess that Mr. Wetherell com- 

 menced his third herd at Kirkbridge in 1848 ; and three years after 

 The Earl of Scarborough (by Roan Duke, a pure Bates bull) who was 

 bred by Mr. Maw, : and bought along with his dam at the Tetley sale, 

 carried off the head prize at Windsor, for the best bull in Class I. 

 Still, his success had many serious drawbacks, as twenty- four of his 

 cows died of pleuro-pneumonia, and thirty-three cast their calves ; but 

 the herd was gradually rising into note once more, when, in conse- 

 quence of circumstances well known, Mr. Wetherell gave up his Kirk- 

 bridge farm, where he had once hoped to end his days, and went to 

 reside about a mile off at Aldborough. He did not, however, relinquish 

 breeding entirely ; and, faithful to the blood of The Earl of Scar- 

 borough, he brought his daughters, Lady Scarborough and The Duchess 

 of Northumberland (who goes back with two crosses of Belvedere to 

 "Sockburn Sail," by John Coates's bull) along with him ; and these, 

 with M' *s Rose, Cosy, and a few others, formed the germ of the fourth 

 herd. 



