SUPPLEMENT. 735 



PORTRAITS OF CELEBRATED BRITISH PRIZE CATTLE. 



[Inclosure O O O in report of Consul-General Merritt, of London; text and portraits being taken 



from English publications.] 



A, Shorthorn cattle; B, Devon cattle; C, Suffolk cattle; D, Longhorn cattle; E, Here- 

 ford cattle; F, Sussex cattle; G, Ayrshire cattle; II, Jersey and Guernsey cattle; I, 

 Welsh black cattle. 



The portraits of each group immediately follow the text relating to the same. 

 A. SHORTHORN CATTLE. 



Shorthorn Bull Duke of Underley. We here present our readers with Mr. Williams's 

 sketch of Lord Bective's Duke of Underley. The following descriptive paragraph re- 

 lates rather to general family history than to this particular bull. The Duchess of Ge- 

 neva Tenth came over to this country with the reputation of being one of the most beau- 

 tiful Shorthorned cows in the United States. Nor did her merit end with herself. Her 

 first calf in England was Duke of Underley, the subject of this portrait. He too 

 satisfied the most fastidious breeders, whatever their preferences might be. He repre- 

 sents the Duchess family as America has made them, i. e. with a slight infusion of 

 strange blood through Romeo, who entered, indirectly, into the pedigree of the sire of 

 Duchess of Geneva Tenth. She was put to Duke of Tregunter Second, a Duchess bull, 

 having the "Usurer" cross, which was added by Earle Ducie. Duke of Tregunter 

 Second had proved himself, in Gloucestershire, to be a sire of remarkable merit: his 

 daughters, especially, at Kiugscote and Siddington, being very grand animals, with the 

 best of middles and long hind quarters. It seemed but reasonable to expect that the 

 coupling together Duchess of Geneva Tenth an American success in breedingwith 

 Duke of Tregunter Second, a well-proved English sire, would, to borrow a Yankeeism 

 from Mar tin Chuzzlewit, "eventuate a spanker." The engraving is from a drawing 

 in the preparation of which measurement and photography were both employed. 



Shorthorn heifer Lady Violet. These portraits (front and side views) represent Mrs. 

 Pery's Shorthorn heifer, Lady Violet (calved December 19, 1876), to which was awarded 

 the first prize in her class at the Royal Dublin Society's last spring show. Lady Violet 

 is by Don Diego (33539) dam Lady-love by The Earl (27623), g.-dam Lady Sarah by 

 Best Hope (23413), &c. The side view is a good reproduction of a very successful pho- 

 tograph. 



Shorthorn lull Anchor. Lord Rathdonnell's bull Anchor (winner three years running 

 at the Dublin Spring Show) was one of the sights at the Kilburn Show. It is good to 

 have opportunities occasionally to compare the products of the sister kingdoms with 

 our own. Clydesdale horses and Irish and Scotch Shorthorns are good tests by which 

 to try English showyard favorites. Mr. Chaloner (the Irish judge), who bred Anchor, 

 stepped on one side when the chief prize in this class was awarded. The other two 

 judges gave the first place to Anchor, who, in addition to his personal successes, was 

 shown in comparatively hard condition, an example worth copying. The engraving is, 

 we think, a remarkably successful example of justice done by photography. 



Shorthorn bull Tchmachus. Four or five groups of Shorthorns have, in the course of 

 the last two reasons, made themselves conspicuous above their rivals for number and 

 excellence. Tiiese are the Marquis of Exeter's Telemachus family, the Earl of Dun- 

 tnore's Red Roses, Colonel Loyd-Lindsay 's Burlesques, Mr. T. H. Miller's Ringlets, and Mr. 

 W. H. Wodehouse's Countess groups. One and all of these are a sufficient answer to the 

 oft-repeated assertion (which is, however, very limited truth) that fattened parents en- 

 tail barrenness or degenerate offspring. It is one of the merits of the Shorthorn that it 

 will bear forcing without breaking down. Among all the groups named the Burghley 

 one must now be held to be entitled to the first place. Sea Gnll and her offspring, ail 

 by Telemachus, are so curiously alike, and all of such a very striking type in the show 

 ring, that she and they must be held to be the most remarkable family group in Eng- 

 land. The members of the group seen at Kilburn were by no means all Sea Gull's pro- 

 duce by Telemachus. 



Here we have a portrait of one of the winning four, all of whom are for color, size, and 

 condition, entitled to rank separately as prizewortby cattle. 



Shorthorn cow Lady Carcio Third. In her old age Fanny, a Warlaby cow, went from 

 Mr. Wilson, of I'.rawith, "fora song" to the Hon. Colonel Duncorabe, who, bringing 

 her to Waresley Park, had a heifer calf from her by Hero (a bull sharing Bates blood), 

 which he called Heather Bell. 



