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bull calf, Prince of Wales, by Wolviston, dam Cream-pot Gth ; 

 and grade heifer. Beauty, by Lamar tine. 



R. E. Thorne, of Alanhasset, for bull Washington, by Bonaparte j 

 John A. King, Jamaica, cow Ruby. The grade stock of Gen. A. 

 Macdonald and A. H. Mickle, of Flushing, and Wm. J. Mott, of 

 Manhasset, were especially fine. 



Horses. — The show of horses was large, and as remarked by a 

 good judge, " though not so numerous, of truer form and points, 

 than most of those exhibited at the State Fair." This was, how- 

 ever, expected from the descendants of Eclipse, Messenger, Engi- 

 neer, Mambrino, Abdalla, &c. Of full-blooded stock, Caleb T. 

 Howell's Clarion, by Monumental Eclipse, out of Van Mater's 

 Oscar mare, and David Garretson-s Mayfly, by Trustee, out of a 

 Messenger mare, were the best. The exhibition of horses not 

 thorough bred, showed that we possess a particular breed of 

 horses not to be found in many other countries, made up in the 

 county, the root whereof is not necessarily to be looked for in the 

 English Stud Book. Of this class, Jackson Nichol's George Wash- 

 ington, by Cassius M. Clay, and Alexander Jackson's Hamilto- 

 nian, by Young Almac, received the first premiums. Twenty-one 

 premiums were awarded to horses, including ten silver cups. 



She&p and Swine. — The land in Queens is too valuable for sheep 

 pasture, consequently this department was not large. Wm. J. 

 Mott and J. R. Burtis, of Manhasset, and Edward A. Lawrence, 

 of Flushing, exhibited very fine middle-wooled bucks and ewes. 

 Judge Haviland, of Roslyn, fine long-wooled, and Edward A. 

 Lawrence, of Flushing, the best Merino. 



The show of swine and pigs was extensive, nine premiums were 

 awarded. The improvement of domestic animals has been mucli 

 retarded by the vulgar persuasion, that the largest males should 

 be selected, for the purpose of procreation. This fallacy is the 

 source of the mortification experienced by many farmers, wJio, 

 either in selecting from their stock, or in purchasing, give the 

 largest price for overgrown bulls, boars, or rams, without respect 

 to form or family, or excellence in particular points ; and too 

 often give the preference to stallions blazoned in handbills, for 



