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TRUMPETER. 
QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 
[1 Seer 899. 
Calved 31st October, 1898. 
Sire—Earl Winter. 
Dam—Rose Sire—Lieutenant Hall 
ed Muriel nat Duke 
ggd Grace ,, Chance 
g «gd  Impudence » Deception 
ggggd* » Van Amburg. 
WILTON GRANGE. 
Calved 3rd November, 1898. 
Sire —Horace Wilton. 
Dam—Cajole Sire—Lord Carrington 
ed Pandour Pee Duke 
god Hester » Sir Benjamin 
eged Lady Rodney ,, Argus 
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eggeg »  Ploughman. 
When we come to the consideration of the prizes taken by many of these 
cattle, we are confronted with numberless medals and ribbons. For instance, 
the winnings of Sir Henry Loch, from 1887 to 1895, are as follow:— 
First prize in 1887, as a bull calf, at West Bourke Show (Vic.) 
1888 ,, yearling me fs 5 
1889 ,, aged + i “ 
ay eth 1887, in yearling class, at Bacchus Marsh (Vic.) 
Champion prize in 1887, as best Hereford, any age, male or female, at Bacchus. 
March (Vic.)  , 
First prize in 1888, as a 2-year-old, Bacchus Marsh (Vic.) 
Champion prize in 1889, as best Hereford, Bacchus Marsh (Vic.) 
First prize in 1890, in aged class, West Bourke (Vic.) 
First prize in 1890, in aged class, at the Royal Association’s Show, Melbourne, 
beating Mr. Angas’s champion, General Gordon. 
First prize in 1491, in 2-year-old and over class, at Tenterfield (N.S.W.) 
1891, in 83-year-old class 1 co 
5 i. 1892, in 2-year-old class - x 
Special Reserve Champion prize for best Hereford bull, over 24 months, at the 
National Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition, Brisbane (Q.), in 1892. 
First prize and Champion for best Hereford bull in the yards, at Tenterfield, 
N.S.W., in 1895, and similar prizes for the best class at the same show. 
First prize, in aged class, at the Brisbane Exhibition, in 1895. 
6 ,» for best bull, with progeny, Brisbane Exhibition, in 1895. 
Special prize for best Hereford a es 
Champion prize for best Hereford ie a + 
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Space will not allow of the enumeration of all the performances of members. 
of this justly celebrated herd. Those who are interested in the matter will 
doubtless be willingly afforded an opportunity of finding out all about them by 
Mr. Allan, to whose courtesy we are indebted for the above particulars. 
BLACK MERINO SHEEP. 
Another specialty of Braeside is its flock of black merino sheep, which 
Mr. Allan started twenty-two years ago, and formed the nucleus of the floclt from 
stock purchased from the well-known breeders, the late Sir Joshua Peter Bell, 
Sir Patrick Jennings, the Hon. J. D. Macansh, Messrs. Kent and Wienholt, and 
C. B. Fisher; also he got some of the ewes from Murrumbidgee and Billabong 
breeders in Riverina. Mr. Allan, noticing that, in spite of drastic culling, black 
sheep occurred in all flocks, was struck with the idea that possibly sheep were 
* Those dams marked with an asterisk are purebred Hereford cows, bought by Mr. Allan 
from Messrs. Robertson Brothers, Colac, Western Victoria, in 1878, and bred by them from pure- 
imported stock. 
