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sale immense ; everything was eaten up, so that bread had to be sent 

 for into Darlington. Mr. Kingston, the auctioneer, sold the cattle by 

 the sand-glass, and in accordance with the custom of the time received 

 about five guineas for the business, the work of the sale falling more 

 on the owner than the auctioneer. The cattle were not fed up for 

 the sale, but kept naturally, and sold when they were in great condi- 

 tion from natural keep. 



" The Ketton stock at this time is described by Mr. Wright as of 

 great size and substance, with fine, long hind quarters ; the space from 

 the hip to the rib was long and counteracted by a broad back and high, 

 round ribs. The shoulders of the males were upright, and the 

 knuckles, or shoulder points, large and coarse a defect not so appa- 

 rent in the females. The general contour, or side view, was stately 

 and imposing, but their great superiority consisted in their extraor- 

 dinary inclination to fatten. - On handling, the skin was loose and 

 pliant, and the feel under it remarkably mellow and kind. The color 

 was greatly varied ; red, red and white, roan, and also white being 

 found in the same kindred ; while in all cases of close affinity there 

 was a tendency to white, with red ears and spots. 



" Many of the cows were excellent milkers, giving twelve full quarts 

 at a meal. Cherry, the first lot, was one of them, a plain cow in 

 color, red and a little white, whose descendants are now in exist- 

 ence in the neighborhood of Stockton-on-Tees and Malton, Yorks. 

 Countess [Alloy] was undoubtedly the finest cow in the sale, but she 

 wanted hair and milk; in character she came nearest to Mason's 

 style, and her back and belly formed parallel lines. She produced 

 three heifers and the bull Constellation (163), in Major Rudd's pos- 

 session, and died in 1816. Selina [Alloy] had the style of her dam 

 Countess, but not her magnificent appearance ; she bred ten calves 

 at Denton Park, and her descendants in the ninth and tenth genera- 

 tions are still in existence at Siddington, Gloucestershire. Lady 

 lacked elegance, but had great substance and good hair ; in color she 

 was red and' white. 



"Lily, pure bred, sold to Major Rudd for 400 guineas ($2,152), a 

 splendid white cow, was the highest priced female, but did nothing in 

 Major Rudd's possession. Daisy, a small roan cow, but a grand 

 milker, was most fruitful with Major Bower; her dam, Old Daisy, who 

 gave thirty-two quarts of milk a day, had been sold to Mr. Hustler, 

 who bred Fairy from her, the ancestress of Rev. J. D. Jefferson's 

 Lady Abbesses. This Fairy was afterwards bought by Mr. Bates, 

 who reckoned her to be the finest specimen of quality imaginable ; 



