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The third-prize pair, " Clinker 3rd and 4th," bred and exhi- 
bited by Mr. Hill, of Felhampton Court, are sons of " Merry 
Monarch," a descendant of the old Downton Castle Herefords 
of Mr. Knight, famous at the end of the last and early in 
the present century, through the herds of Mr. Theophilus 
Salwey, of Ashley Moor, and Lord Berwick. The power 
of a good old strain of blood has been remarkably shown in the 
excellent and uniform character of " Merry Monarch's " pro- 
geny, and the two young bulls at Shrewsbury, from dams of 
Messrs. Green's " Cherry " family, are fair specimens, not above 
the average, of his stock. 
In a fine Class of Cows the Earl of Coventry exhibited two, 
and gained the first prize and a commendation. The first- 
prize cow, " Golden Treasure," bred at Croome Court, is the 
offspring of " Marechal Niel " and " Giantess " (the dam of 
" Good Boy," the first-prize bull in Class 60), both bred by the 
late Mr. Tudge, of Adforton, a breeder who has certainly left 
the impress of his mind upon the Herefords representing the 
Adforton herd and its offshoots. Among the indirect descend- 
ants of that herd may be included the progeny of " Regulus," 
" Lord Wilton," and other sires whose names must occupy pro- 
minent places in Hereford history, and whose blood is already 
circulating extensively in the leading herds of this country, the 
colonies, and the United States of America. " Golden Treasure," 
wide, deep, and immensely massive, showing a trifle too much 
white, is a lower built and more compact cow than her dam, 
" Giantess," with whom and her half-brother, " Good Boy," she 
was last year one of the first-prize family group at York. 
Through her sire she is a grand-daughter of the " Royal " first- 
prize cow " Rosebud," the dam of Mr. Arkwright's second, and 
grand-dam of Mr. W. Tudge's third-prize bulls in the same 
class this year with " Good Boy," who, as we have seen, took 
the first place. The other cow from the Croome Court herd, 
"Rarity 14th," bred by Mr. R. L. Burton, of Longner Hall, 
belongs to a fine old family in the Cronkhill (Lord Berwick's) 
herd, dispersed in 1861, and is descended from very celebrated 
winners in former years. Although not a perfect show-cow, 
having " gone to pieces," as the term is, or become " patchy " 
in her after-parts, she has a girth which reminds us of her 
ancestor, " Attringham," being, as all Herefords should be (and 
Hereford breeders likewise, in their estimate of each other's 
labours), great through the heart. The shoulder is neatly laid, 
and the out-shoulder big, a point in itself surely advantageous, 
if not spoiled by the too frequently accompanying fault of 
bareness immediately before the out-shoulder, and if the fore- 
rib, as in this case, is sufficiently expanded and sufficiently 
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