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two years, at 300 gs., and into Yorkshire, making altogether, in let- 

 tings and sale, noo guineas. Sir W. Cooke bid for him, but Mr. 

 Wiley bought him for 270 guineas. He died suddenly at Brandsby, 

 having got only two calves. Mr. Wiley returned to Mr. Colling 

 greatly disappointed, and asked for the use of Barmpton (54), but 

 Mr. Colling would not part with him then to anybody, as he consid- 

 ered him one of the best bulls he ever had. The two calves, how- 

 ever, turned out to Mr. Wiley a great profit; one was Midas (1230), 

 and the other the famous Grazier (1085). This bull became a great 

 celebrity ; he was used three years by Sir John Johnstone, who chris- 

 tened him Grazier on account of his good qualities. Mr. W. Smith, 

 West Rasen, had him two years, Mr. Slater one year, and Lord 

 Feversham and the Earl of Carlisle for some time. He then went 

 home and was used by Mr. Wiley, and afterwards, in his old age, by 

 Sir John Ramsden, with whom he died in his fourteenth year, and 

 was buried in his skin. He^was a fine, massive bull, a dark red, and 

 a little white in his fore quarters. Baronet (62), also a good bull, 

 was hired by Sir Charles Loraine, who bought him in 1820, and took 

 in five cows of Mr. Wetherell's at 10 guineas ($52) each. Pilot (496) 

 has been described in Mr. Carr's History of the Booth Cattle ; he 

 was a red and white, rather a small bull, but of good quality and a 

 good stock getter. At the time of the sale, Mr. J. G. Dixon and 

 Major Brown joined purses in order to buy a good bull, and Mr. 

 Dixon bid from 100 to 250 guineas, at 10 guineas biddings, opposed 

 by Mr. Thomas Booth, who bought him for 270 guineas ($1,404). 



" Red Rose's daughter, Rosette, lot 20, made 300 guineas, and bred 

 four heifers, of which there is now no trace. At eleven years old she 

 was sold at Lord Althorp's sale in 1825, for 25 guineas. Ruby, lot 

 32, made the second highest female price, 331 guineas, and went into 

 Mr. Robson's large herd, which is said to have contained more grand 

 cows than any other herd in Lincolnshire. Moss Rose bred four 

 calves, three bulls Barmpton (54), Lancaster (360), and one that 

 died young and one heifer, lot 1 8, Young Moss Rose, which went to 

 Lord Feversham for 190 guineas. She produced one heifer, lot 33, 

 at Barmpton, which went, with Ruby, lot 32, into Lincolnshire, and 

 two heifers at Buncombe, from one of which, Beauty, by Baron (38), 

 we have descendants even now at Stockeld Park. Barmpton (54) 

 was a small-sized, beautiful roan bull, as neat as his dam, and got 

 splendid stock ; he had a very broad back, fine quarters, but rather 

 upright shoulders, and most of the heifer calves at both sales were by 

 him. Mr. John Wright used him two years, first at 60, and then 70 



