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roan, with very good looks, has also had his share of Showyard 
honours.* A calf by him and with much the same pedigree as 
" Master Harbinger," got a high commendation and the reserve 
number in his class at Carlisle, and will probably be heard of 
again. 
Another bull, to which Mr. Handley's sideboard owes much, 
was " Lord St. Vincent," who took many prizes as a yearling, 
and Avas shown at Kilburn last year, where, however, he did 
nothing. 
The Cozes. — But it is time that I turned to the cows. " Place 
aux dames ! " as I have heard an enthusiastic amateur exclaim. 
Without going into the hysterics which most Shorthorn writers 
of the present day think it necessary to affect, I must record the 
opinion of the Judges, that they saw in February, turned out of 
the byres, o5 cows, nearly all of which, for size, symmetry, 
character and healthy condition would do credit to any herd in 
England. 
Among the younger stock, the heifer " Queen Mary," who was 
also at Kilburn last year and was highly commended, could not 
escape observation. She also is a roan of excellent form and 
fashion, and is now about twenty months old. I find, however, 
that there were so many of the younger as well as the older 
cattle which challenged our admiration, that I must decline to 
individualise them, feeling that there is other work before me 
than the enumeration of those many features on which the men 
whose " talk is of cattle " love to linger. I shall therefore con- 
tent myself by remarking that Mr. Handley, as the farmer of 
only 200 acres of land, may well be proud of the eminence he 
has achieved in this department of his business, and that he may 
probably challenge comparison with any herd in England owned 
by an occupier of equal extent. 
With reference to the keep of the herd, it is needless to say 
that it is not done for nothing ; but I shall produce figures by- 
and-bye which will dispel the notion that any extravagance is 
practised ; and I wish here to remark that the younger stock get 
neither corn nor cake in winter, but live on swedes and oat- 
straw, and it is only the animals intended for show which are 
indulged to any extent, although the cows generally get some 
linseed-cake or meal together with their swedes, to the extent 
of perhaps 4 lbs. a day. About thirty cows are generally 
calved, and the calves are all hand-reared. Up to a month old 
they get new milk, and are fed three times a day. Afterwards 
they are fed on skim milk and oil-cake, or oatmeal porridge. 
None of the male calves are steered, a ready market being found 
* He took ten First Prizes as a yearling. 
