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VOLUSIE XXV—No. 7. 
NEW-YORK, JULY, 1866. 
NEW SEINES—No. 234. 
HEAD OP 4Tn DUCHESS OP 
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T II 0 END ALE.— Draivn from Life by Edwin Porbes, for the Americ.in Agriculturist. 
4th Duchess of Thorndale, bred and oivned by Samuel Tliorne. of Thorndale, Duchess County, N. Y.—Red; calved July lOtb, 1859; Got by 2d Grand Duke (12961).—D.im Duchess ( — ) 
. by Duke of Gloster (llSSv); g ^m Duchess 66th by 4th Duke of York (10167); gr g dam Duchess o5th by 4th Duke of Norttmmberland (3649); gr gr g dam Duchess 38tli by Norfolk (2377); 
AU “u ”> 1 Belvedere (1706); gr gr gr gr g dam Ducliess 19tli by 2d Hubback (1423)'; gr gr gr gr gr g dam Duchess 12th by the Earl (640); gr gr gr gr gr gr g dam Duchess 
1 Dj Kctton 2d ( 1 10); gr gr gr gr gr gr gr g dam Duchess 1st by Comet (135); gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr g dam by Favorite (252); gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr g dam by Daisy Bull (ISG), gr gr gr 
SI SI S> SI SI SI 51 S dam by 1' avorite (232); gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr g dam by Hubback (319); gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr gr g dam by J Brown’s Red Bull (97). 
Ill this conutry we know yery little about 
long lines of ancestry among onr citizens, and 
though now and then some old famil}! can 
trace its descent back five or six generations, 
not one man in a hundred can tell the names of 
his great grandfathers. This may give interest 
.to the fact that the beautiful cow whose head is 
faithfully presented above, is the lOlh in a line 
of “ Duchesses,” and; that her pedigree on the 
side of her dam may be traced back uninter¬ 
ruptedly 15 generations. They are an honored 
ancestry too, and worthful, as we sh.all , show. 
4th Duchess of Thorndale is of a prevailingly 
red color of almcist faultless, and for her large 
size, delicate proportions; her head, small and 
honey; e3’es, full aucl very prominent, and the 
-jaws, remarkahly clean. Her ^ coat is like 
broadcloth, and her skin pliable .. and soft as 
buckskin. To say nothing of tlie first Duchess, 
-Mr. CoUing’s-White Bull, Pavorite, tlie Hub- 
backs, and the Dukes of Northumberland, her 
rich heritage of blood is shown by tlie fact that 
her sire, 2d ■ Grand Duke, cost 1000 Guineas in 
England; her Grand Sire, Duke of Glostc)-, G50 
Gs.; her Grand-dam, Duchess G6, sold for 700 
Gs. at the Ducic Sale, and her (GGth’s) sire at the 
same sale sold for. 500 Gs.. (These are Guineas, 
not Pounds Sterling, remember.) Her son, Gth 
Duke of Thorndale, by 3d Duke (27749), now 4 
years old, is emphatically the finest bull we ever 
saw., SIxe is herself the queen of the Thorndale 
herd, . and, it is no more than fair to say, that 
no picture, however fine, can do her justice. 
