736 CATTLE AND DAIRY FARMING. 



When Heather Bell was well-stricken in years she fell "to the nod" of the late Mr. 

 Pawlett: who, hardly venturing to expect produce, put her to one of his Booth bulls 

 Prince James and had a rah'. >> little expected that he named her Miracle. Miracle, in 

 her turn, bred freely; and her blood- red daughter Lady Jane, by the ''Bracelet" bull 

 Baron Killerby. was one of the cheapest lots at the famous Beeston sale in 1872. 



Mr. St. John Ackers took Lady Jane to Gloucestershire, and she has proved that the 

 virtue of regular and long-continued fecundity ia hers, as well as her granddam's; for 

 she ha* produced in succession three light roan heifers, each of which in turn received 

 the name of Lady Carew, by the white Wurlaby-bred bull, County Member, of the 

 Christon tribe. All the Ladies Carews have been successfully exhibited, and all have 

 had the same characteristic's. AH have been somewhat small heifers; with very line 

 bone and on very short legs. All have had the silkiest of hair, and a long even carcase, 

 pomewhat unduly weighted with llesh and fat at both ends. Lady Carew third (of whom 

 we give a portrait) has a bosom which is wonderful to see. She inherits the blood o 

 almost all the leading strains, though her sire is purest Warlaby. 



Shorthorn dairy CHIC Victoria. The portrait represents Mr. Fred. Harvey's first prize 

 cow in the dairy cla,ss at Kilburn, named Victoria type of a capital dairy cow; well 

 formed as the mother, whether of meat-carrying steers or milk-producing heifers. Here, 

 too, we have an example of successful representation by means of photography. 



Shorthorn dairy cow Jfniilfn. The prolilc portrait represents Mr. W. Stratum's white 

 dairy cow, Maiden, which took the lirst prize in the class of unpedigreed dairy cattle at 

 the dairy show in the Agricultural Hall. She is, we understand, out of a good ordinary 

 Shorthorn dairy cow, by the same sire as got Nectarine Bud, which was a noted prize- 

 taker at both the Royal Agricultural Society's and the Birmingham shows. 



Shorthorn hcifcr^Sianicick tioxe and Gaiety Sixth. The portraits represent two very 

 pretty Shorthorn heifers exhibited at the Perth show of the Highland Agricultural So- 

 ciety' by Mr. James Whyte, of Aldbro, Darlington, which took the first prize in the. 

 ci.ui.-es for yearling and a two-year-old Shorthorn heifers respectively. The older heifer is 

 Stanwiek Lose, bv Lord Godolphin (36065), dam Moss Rose by Baron Killerby (27949). 



The yearling is Gaiety Sixth, by Ben Brace (30524), dam Gaiety bv Merrv Monarch 

 (22344). 



Short /torn roic Ajiri! 7,W. The favorite old " Mossrose" cow April Rose, having ceased 

 to breed, has gone to the, butcher. This cow was remarkable, no'. only for her personal 

 merits, which were very great, but for the excellence of her progeny. Calved in April, 

 1-62, she brought her lirst calf in August, 1864, and her thirteenth and last in 1876. 

 Among the best of her produce were the following: A white steer, calved in 1865, that 

 gave remarkable promise, lor Christmas honors; but he went wrong before the shows, and 

 when slaughtered, a large stone was found in his stomach. Twin steers in 1867. One 

 of these won the prizes for best Shorthorn and for best ox or steer in any of the classes 

 at Birmingham: also the Champion cup and gold medal for the best beast in the yard 

 at Smithlield, 1-71; and further distinguished himself in the hands of Mr. Morrison it 

 1-72. FlowerGiri, by James First (21202), won first prize as calf at Manchester "Royal;" 

 and among her many other prizes was lirst as breeding cow at the Bath and West of 

 England at Dorchester. Passion Flower, own sister to the above, was never shown, but 

 wa* the /f i>!n* ultra of a Shorthorn. Village Rose, another own sister, won the lirst prize 

 as calf at the Yorkshire; lirst at the Bath and West of England as a yearling; and sec- 

 o:>d at Cardiff " Royal," where sho was sold to Mr. Cochrane, Canada, lor 300 guineas. 

 Sinee these. April Rose, has produced two heifers and three bulls, one of the former, 

 March Kosc, by Protector i 32221 |, is .still in the herd; two of the bulls died young, but 

 E\'p'-ctation (3-261) is being largely used in the Dutl'ryn herd. 



Shor!/tr;> l>nll Duke of /fowl Jo.'ni. This white bull is Mr. John Vicker's Duke of 

 Howl John, a not euphoniously named, yet a remarkable animal. He was six years 

 two months three weeks two days old when his photograph was taken. How well ho 

 has held together during that long fatt-ni'ag time, his portrait tells. He represents 

 thi- mixture of Bites blood (in a small indirect infusion) with that of the elder Mr. J. 

 Booth. Th" earliest nani'-d dams came; from Killerby, the latest sire from Mr. Barnes, 

 of '\\Y-tland, Meath. The bull himself has attained great distinction. Almost every 

 recent English show of " lirst " class IKIS seen those; victorious which were placed below 

 him at Carlisle; yet D;ike of Howl John, by his selection by a quite competent bench 

 wa< pp-f'-rred to all of them. 



It is not to b" i \-p"efe 1 that such a success should be at once accepted as deserved by 

 f v.-ryl) >dy. Vet it would puz/lrthe crit ics who challenge the decision to find more fault, 

 i" th" I>uke of Howl John as a breeding animal (about whom the ugliest point is his 

 nam-, than can be Dinted out in any ol his defeated rivals. His rough shoulder points 

 are In-, i Most conspicuous delect-: and this is probably owing to his sire, White Duke, 

 \\l\i inherited the hloi.d of Grand Duke Third. Yet tho presence of these shoulders, 

 would seem to imply great masculine vigor. At ail events, unsightly as they are, the 



