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celebrated Mason cows. Two females from her are now at 
Aylesby. 
The last introduction into the herd, also made in 1862, was 
the Cherry family, by the purchase of " Cherry Duchess 3rd," 
got by "Second Grand Duke " (12,961), dam "Cherry Duchess 
2nd," and descended direct from Colonel Cradock's " Old 
Cherry." This enabled, perhaps, as good an introducticm as 
possible of the Booth blood to be made upon the Duchess and 
Cherry strains. " Old Cherry " was the dam of " Mussulman," 
the sire of Mr. Booth's "Buckingham," which was out of the 
celebrated " Bracelet ;" while, on the other hand, all the bulls 
which have been used at Aylesby have come from Killer by and 
Warlaby, and possess a large amount of Buckingham blood. The 
Cherry and Duchess blood in their best forms are thus com- 
bined, and the progeny, of which about half-a-dozen females 
are now at Aylesby, take the name of " Cherry Queen."* 
Feedhif) Beasts. — About forty three-year-old steers are grazed 
every year, getting an allowance of cake on the grass towards 
the end of summer. A similar number of two-year-olds and 
yearlings remain after these are gone off, and are similarly treated 
in succession. 
The steers grazed as three-year-olds are allowed during the 
previous winter about 6 lbs. of oilcake per diem in the foldyards, 
with a moderate quantity of pulped turnips, straw, and chaff. 
The two-year-olds have the same keep, with the exception that 
the allowance of oilcake is reduced to 4 lbs.; while the yearlings 
get only from 2^ to 3 lbs. of cake, but a rather better chop. 
About ten cows are fed off on grass every year, in addition to 
the nurse-cows, which swell the total to about sixteen or twenty 
per annum. 
The steers and the young breeding-stock are, in winter, kept 
entirely in small foldyards with open sheds, the covered part 
occupying from one-fourth to one-third of the total area of the 
yard. The main principle kept in view in constructing and 
arranging these foldyards is that there shall be " no thoroughfare" 
from one to another, each yard being kept quite isolated from the 
rest. The sheds are cheaply built, on the north side of the yard, 
with a brick-wall at the back and a tiled span-roof, supported in 
front by larch props. Each of these yards will hold from eight 
to twelve head of cattle, and the sheds in some of them are easily 
converted into loose boxes, if required for breeding cows. The 
bulls and breeding cows are kept in loose boxes, of which there 
are a large number at Aylesby and a few at Riby. 
* " Clierry Queen 4th " obtained the second prize at Manchester, in the Yearling 
Heifer Class, and the first at the Lincolnshire Society's Show at Lincoln. 
