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Nova Scotia, and the other, Laird o' Benton 1895, from 

 Blooming Heather 2nd, to the Marquis of Londonderry for 

 crossing purposes. The calves are allowed to suckle their 

 dams, but are kept in a covered yard during summer, their 

 dams being brought into them morning, noon, and night 

 for a time, and afterwards night and morning. The heifers 

 are put to the bull when about fifteen months old, and 

 having been well kept are strong and well-matured. Mr 

 Stephenson has allowed his neighbours the use of his 

 bulls, and the result of the cross of the polled bulls on 

 the ordinary cows of the district is very flattering to the 

 polled breed. As a rule the cows in the district lack flesh, 

 being kept principally for milk, and the polled bull not 

 only gives this, but what is more noticeable, he is very 

 impressive as to colour. A great proportion of the calves 

 come black or nearly so, and seem to have many of the 

 good characteristics of the polled breed, being full of flesh 

 or muscle, and giving promise of being grand butchers' 

 cattle. 



Beechwood. A very fine herd has been collected by Mr 

 W. B. Greenfield of Beechwood, Dunstable, Bedfordshire. 

 It was commenced in 1880 by purchases at the Glamis 

 sale. On that occasion six animals were procured, five 

 females from the Earl of Airlie and a bull from the 

 Earl of Strathmore. The females comprised Eose of 

 Guynd 2nd 2599 and her daughters, Gay Lass 3511, by 

 Gainsborough 3rd 598, and Griselda 3877, by Timour 3rd 

 1287, the last-named having been the highest-priced 

 animal at the sale (70 guineas), Eose of Guynd 2nd is 

 a good milker, a splendid breeder, and since she went to 

 Beechwood has produced Gay Lass 2nd 4723, the winner 

 of the third prize as a calf at Peterborough in 1881, an 

 animal of rare quality and style. Gay Lass 3511 is a 

 strong, big, heavily-fleshed cow. Her last two calves were 

 both heifers. Griselda is a beautiful specimen of a polled 

 cow, with nice feminine head and splendid back and hind- 



