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park, which extends along a richly-wooded plateau ; 

 while at your feet there seems to be a vast plain in 

 every stage of the four-crop rotation for miles, and 

 then fading away in the far distance into some 

 heather forelands, which almost shut out the view of 

 the German Ocean. This Kirby Moor was at once 

 the hunting ground and the death scene of the 

 Duke of Buckingham, in days when the rafters of 

 Helmsley Castle rang again with his revels, after he 



(1704), whom he hired from Castle Howard, there came a bull-calf, 

 which had good looks enough to be honoured at once with Mr. Wiley's 

 favourite cognomen of Carcase, and was sold as a yearling for 200 guineas. 



Belshazzar, who got his stock very large and good-looking, was the 

 sire of Victoria, which was sold from the Brandsby herd for 160 guineas ; 

 but Carcase (3285) was the greatest hit. The latter won the yearling 

 bull prize in 1838 both at Thirsk and at York, where he divided the 

 winner Hecatomb and the great two-year-old Duke of Northumberland 

 in the classes for all ages ; but still Mr. Bates was enabled to say that 

 his crack was never beaten by a bull of his own age. His Van Dunck 

 (10,992) was a second Carcase in the show-yard. He not only took the 

 first 25/. prize at the Yorkshire Society's Meeting at Thirsk as the best 

 bull of any age, but carried off the prize for the best two-year-old bull 

 at the Highland Society, and after being placed second to Mr. Anthony 

 Maynard's Crusade in the Sweepstakes, passed for 125 guineas into the 

 hands of Mr. Whitehead of Little Methlie, near Aberdeen. Since then 

 Mr. Wiley has not cared much to show store stock ; but he has not un- 

 frequently had a prize bullock at the York fat show. Still, the leading 

 honour of the show-year was in store for him, and in 1869 he took the 

 first prize (4O/.) for the best aged bull at the Manchester Royal with 

 Earl of Derby against 23 bulls, and was second at the Yorkshire to Mr. 

 Booth's Commander- in- Chief, the first-prize Royal winner at Leicester. 



Till within the last few years he showed small white pigs with good 

 success at the Birmingham fat show, and also at the Royal Agricultural 

 and Yorkshire, at whose Chester and Northallerton shows in 1858 a 

 pen of young sows by Useful from Symmetry took first prizes. One of 

 the Chester trio was sold to Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart., M.P., but 

 there was another quite as good at home to complete the county prize- 

 lot, which fetched 12 guineas apiece, thus making up 50 guineas for the 

 four. The breed is the small Yorkshire white. This rare line of winners 

 owes its origin to Mr. Colling ; but it has been carefully crossed with 

 boars from Castle Howard, Mr. Hall's of Kiveton, and Mr. Cook's of 

 Owston. There are now few leading pig breeders who have not set 

 themselves up with a " Wiley" at some period of their existence ; and 

 Carcase, Young Carcase, Optimus, Dumfries, Dreadnought, Priam, and 

 Stanley (Young and Old) have all upheld the Brandsby bacon dynasty, 

 which has gone on at the rate of about half a dozen litters a year, 



