the  Society's  Meeting,  1883. 
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sweet-looking,  if  not  so  masculine  as  it  should  be.  This  fault, 
however,  may  mend  with  age.  He  was  bred  by  Mr.  Drewry, 
at  Holker,  out  of  a “ Wild  Rose  ” cow,  which  was  bought  at  a sale 
near  Preston.  His  sire  was  an  “ Oxford  ” bull,  his  grandsire  and 
great-grandsire  “Duke”  bulls,  used  in  the  Duke  of  Devon- 
shire’s magnificent  herd.  Mr.  John  Foster’s  Reserve  bull  is  a 
finely-topped  red  and  white,  bred  by  the  exhibitor,  not  very  high 
in  condition,  but  straight  in  top  and  under-lines,  and  sired 
by  the  prize-bull  “ Kalamazoo  ” (40,093).  The  others  in  the 
class  included  three  promising  youngsters  — a “Gazelle,”  a 
“ Cold  Cream,”  and  a “ Prunette  ” — from  Sandringham,  a 
“ Lady  Bates”  from  Low  Hill,  &c. 
Cows  and  heifers  were  relatively  better  represented  than  bulls. 
The  Cow  Class  occupied  the  attention  of  the  Judges  for  fully  an 
hour.  Often  when  so  much  time  is  taken  the  awards  are  not 
very  satisfactory.  It  was  so  on  the  16th  of  July.  From  the 
beginning  of  the  Show  till  the  end  the  favourite  cow  among 
the  experienced  onlookers  was  Mr.  T.  H.  Hutchinson’s  beautiful 
four-year-old  “ Gratia,”  of  his  own  breeding,  after  the  Killerby 
bull  “ Pluto  ” (35,050),  out  of  a cow  by  the  Killerby  bull 
“ M.  C.”  (31,898).  The  other  sires  constituting  the  last 
four  were  no  other  than  the  Warlaby  “ Knight  of  the  Shire  ” 
and  “Vain  Hope”  (23,102).  She  is  thus  well-bred,  and 
is  quite  as  good-looking  as  she  is  fashionably  descended. 
She  was  the  first  two-year-old  heifer  and  Champion  female  at 
Derby,  and  third  cow  at  Reading — one  from  the  same  herd, 
“ Gainful,”  having  been  first  on  the  latter  occasion.  The  great 
length  of  her  frame,  and  grandeur  of  her  shoulders,  bosom,  and 
brisket,  with  the  massiveness  and  depth  of  her  hind-quarters, 
make  her  appear  a little  slack  on  the  loins.  She  is  not,  how- 
ever, far  gone  there,  and  then  what  a noble  bearing  she  has ! 
What  fine  bone,  wealth  of  flesh,  and  feminine  character  she 
displays ! In  her  appearance  there  was,  perhaps,  more  of  “ the 
lady  ” visible  than  in  that  of  any  other  cow  or  heifer  of  the 
breed.  Yet  she  only  got  Reserve,  or  fourth,  which  was  gene- 
rally regarded  as  a mistake. 
The  three  cows  placed  before  her  are  good,  thick,  round- 
ribbed,  substantial  animals,  partaking  largely  of  what  is  recog- 
nised in  England  as  “ the  Scotch  type.”  It  would  ill  become 
me  to  leave  readers  to  infer  that  the  cow  s are  any  the  wrorse  for 
that  resemblance.  They  may  be  all  the  better,  but  they  are  not 
square  enough  in  the  quarter,  nor  sufficiently  developed  on  the 
more  inviting  points  of  a Shorthorn,  to  have,  in  the  opinion  of 
many  people,  beaten  “ Gratia.”  Mr.  C.  W.  Brierley’s  tidy  white 
“ Snowflake,”  rising  five  years  old,  and  bred  by  the  exhibitor, 
which  made  a good  fight  at  Reading  for  only  “ reserve,”  was 
