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all crossed hy liim ; wliile "Rose of May by Sir James^ 

 the Rose, and Lady of the Manor were put to Royal 

 Standard. 



Mr. Balfour, whose father died nine years since,, 

 in the very prime of life and usefulness, owns nearly 

 seven thousand acres round Whittingham, of which six 

 hundred belong to the home-farm. It is principally 

 on the red sandstone, and has taken many prizes for 

 grain and roots, more especially on its loam. At 

 the steading, where the turkeys and poultry betoken 

 a fancier's care, we found some Great Seal bullocks,, 

 many of them from the dozen dairy cows. The calves- 

 all get milk from the pail and a little oilcake the first 

 winter, they are grazed the next summer, and then 

 gradually carried on with turnips, cake, and corn till 

 they are shown at the United East Lothian or Had- 

 dington in the spring, where hitherto they have 

 had the first and second prizes for lots of five. Great 

 Seal left four crops of calves behind him, and the 

 last were j ust being dropped. Prince Loth, who was 

 second both at Newcastle and Stirling in his class 

 last year, is very much of the same lengthy, thick- 

 fleshed type as his father, and likely to be as good in 

 his generation as a steer- getter. His dam, Rose of 

 May by Sir James the Rose, a fine big cow, with 

 the regular family horn, stood side by side in the- 

 byre, with Lady of the Manor opposite Northern- 

 Belle and her calf, those relics of Hill Head ; and 

 Lady Blanche, a cow of no great pretensions her^ 

 self, but the dam of the prize heifer Lady Windsor^ 



