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blood ; Duke of Devon (o4), a winner at Gloucester and Paris ; 
Czar (172) at Lincoln, and the Zouave (550), who was succes- 
siA'cly shown and gained first prizes as a calf, a yearling', and 
an old bull at the Koyal Shows. All these were descendants 
of Forester (40) ; and again two youjiger scions of his took first 
and second prizes at the Plymouth Royal Show, and 2nd and 
3rd prizes at Battcrsea. Mr. Turner lias also gained many prizes 
with females, exhibiting for the first time at the Royal Show 
at Cambridge, where his two heifers gained prizes, and a first 
at Derby in 1843. Hawthorn (218) and Wallflower (472), own 
sisters, and Ruby (405), gained prizes at Windsor ; the latter 
also at Carlisle ; and Lady (241) was a prize cow at Gloucester. 
Vaudine (1699), a daughter of Wallflower (472), sustained Mr. 
Turner's celebrity at Chester, and at the Bath and West of 
England Shows ; Piccolomini (1510) won the 2nd prize at Bat- 
tersea, of whom the stewards in their report speak as "a sur- 
passingly good cow," every one of these claiming descent from 
Forester (46). 
]\lr. Richard Mogrldge, of Cophall, Molland, is not a frequent 
exhibitor ; but has bred many animals which in other hands have 
gained first prizes. He only once exhibited at Smithfield, when his 
heifer obtained the first prize in her class, and was the "reserved 
number " for the gold medal, in case the one to whom it was 
awarded should be disqualified. Among those which he sold to 
the late Prince Consort was the first prize steer at Smithfield, in 
1854, own brother to his heifer. He sold Mr. Turner Abd-el- 
Kader (lo4), winner of first jirizes at the Royal Shows at Glou- 
cester and Lincoln ; and bred Countess (79), the dam of Czar 
(172), the first prize bull calf at Lincoln, loung Forester (759), 
bred by him, gained the first prize at the Bath and West of 
England Show at Dorchester. All these giants were scions of 
Forester (4fi). 
The Mersons of Brinswoi thy have bred Devons for two or 
three generations, and a goodly array of silver cups and other 
trophies on their sideboard bear testimony to their frequent suc- 
cesses. Mr. Richard Merson bred Cambridge (12), the first-prize 
bull at Cambridge, one of the Royal Agricultural first-prize animals 
not descended from Forester (40) ; his Northampton (86), the first 
Royal winner at that place and of other prizes,* as well as his 
Sultan (122), who was placed second at York, and was afterwards 
sold to Mr. Blom field, in Norfolk, must acknowledge their Forester 
descent. Northampton (80j became for a time the property of 
* Xortliampton ''86), -viz., 1st at the Taunton Cattle Sho\r, a prize at Bath, a 
prize at the Warwick Agiicultural Show in 1850 ; and a prize of 10^. at the same 
show, as being the best animal exhibited for breeding purposes. 
