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tlie " Kni<i;ht's Greys." Some of those exhibited from the 
Downton herd of late years have been perfectly white. Mr. 
Salwey, of Ashley Moor, was a great admirer of the liglit- 
jjreys, and it was with cows purchased at his sale in 1844 that 
Lord Berwick laid that foundation, on which he built so judici- 
ously, with white-faced bulls from the herds of Messrs. Hewer, 
Carpenter, Longmore, and Williams, At his lordship's death, 
eighteen years later, there was only one light-grey " Lord Grey " 
in the herd, and Mr. Knight purchased him. 
The love of good bullocks is an honest prejudice which 
cleaves to the heart of the county. Its beef raising system is its 
especial glory, and farm after farm has played its part well, not 
only on the " home-fields " of Hereford and Leominster, and 
under the Norman fortress of Ludlow, but in a wider sphere 
each December and July, or on the Smithfield stones. It 
would be invidious to speak of one county-man above another, 
but crossing over the boundary line near Moor Court, with its 
quaint gables and black Cheshire cross-gartering, and its recol- 
lections of " Cotmore " (376), who could pull down 35 cwt. on the 
scales, we enter Radnorshire, and reach Monaughty or the Monk's 
House. Here for nearly half a century, the late INIr. Thomas 
Rea followed up what the white " Snowball " had begun, with the 
choicest bred sires from " Crabstock" (3U3) to "Sir Benjamin" 
(1387), and "Grenadier" (961), and won fully two hundred 
prizes. The late Mr. Marsh of Elkstone also backed up the 
breed well outside the county limits ; and " Battersea " (1865), 
and five Royal Society female firsts have graced at one and the 
same time the Luddington herd near Stratford-upon-Avon. 
"Claret" (1177), " Milton" (2114), and " Lady Ash" are still 
well remembered names round Golding Hall in Shropshire, 
although Mr. Hill has quitted it ; and we find solid traces of 
"The Knight" (185), "Sir David" (349), and "Big Ben" 
(248), in the Vale country near Welshpool. " Wonder " (420), 
"Walford" (871), " Attingham " (911), "Albert Edward" 
(859), and "Severn" (1382), have all borne their part in the 
Attingham and Cronkhill pastures, which sent up in their day 
twenty-seven firsts and seconds to the Royal Agricultural lists. 
"Tom Thumb" (243), was a very favourite bull at Cronkhill, 
and his lordship was wont to quote him as an instance of the 
thriftiness of the sort : — " one which will get fat upon nettles." 
The " Silver " tribe, consisting of the old cow, whose origin was 
not very clearly known, six daughters and a calf, made 376/. 17.?., 
and one of them, the prize cow " Carlisle," by " Albert Edward " 
(859), passed into Mr. Duckham's hands, as a doubtful breeder, 
and became the dam of the double first " Commodore " (2472), 
by " Castor " (1900). 
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