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The Rise and Pror/7'ess of 
Show ; and steers wliich, in Mr. Heath's hands, have won the 
higliest honours at Smithfield. Both Messrs. Tapp and Pass- 
more live near, and use Quartly 's bulls. 
The present Earl Fortescue. like his father, has a herd, and 
breeds from Messrs. (Quartly, Turner, and Davy. 
jNIr. Hole, of Hannaford, near Barnstaple, has bred many prize 
animals. Among them Zemindar, the Canterbury second-prize 
calf, and the third-prize bull at Battersea ; Rosetta (1026) and 
Camilla (563), prize heifers at the Bath and West of lilngland 
Show, and Isis, the reserved number at the Battersea Show. 
Mr. Bodley, of Stockley Pomeroy, has gained several prizes at 
the Devon County, and the Bath and West of England Shows. 
At the Royal Show at Plymouth he took the third prize with his 
yearling bull, Lincoln, by Champion (588a), and the following 
prizes offered by the Local Committee, viz., the first for a pair 
of two-year-old heifers, the second for a pair of yearling heifers, 
and a second for a pair of bull-calves. His bull Perfection 
(688) took the first prize at the Royal Show at Leeds. He objects 
to fatten females for exhibition. 
J. H. Buller, Esq., of Downes, gained a second prize for his 
two-year-old bull at the Royal Show at Plymouth ; first prizes 
for his yearling bull and for his in-calf heifer at the Bath and 
West of England at Wells, and his father, the late J. W. Buller, 
Esq., ALP., took the first prize for his heifer at the Bath and 
West of England Show at P]xeter in 1863. 
Mr. Amos Parsons, of Black Torrington, a breeder, of over 
thirty years' standing, from Davy, Merson, and Quartly, has 
gained prizes at the Royal Cornwall, Lifton, and Tavistock 
Shows. His bull Waldo (333), by Earl of Exeter (38), gained 
first prizes at Stratton and Holsworthy ; his cow Buttercup 
(058), by Earl of Exeter (38), out of Mr. J. Davy's Duchess 
((j7'>), took ])rizes at the last-mentioned place ; whilst Homely 
(781) and Vellacott (1103) were also winners at Holsworthy. 
Mr. W, Northey, of Lifton, breeds from Davy and Quartl}', 
and has been successful at local shows. 
About the year 1815 or 1846, the late Mr. Webber, of Hal- 
berton Court, purchased Hundred Guinea (56) of Alessrs. Bult 
and Bond to work with his herd, which gained many local 
prizes. At his death his brother, Mr. T. Webber, succeeded to 
the farm and herd, and has gained the following prizes at the 
Bath and West of England Shows : viz., at Taunton, in 1852, 
with Magnet (232) ; at Tiverton, in 1855, with General Have- 
lock (42U), by a bull bred by Mr. Davy ; at Yeovil and at 
Cardiff with Prince Albert (4i)0) ; and at Tiverton with Jenny 
Lind (1413), who also gained a second prize at the Royal Show 
at Lincoln ; and with Nelly (1514) at the Taunton Show in 
