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to cheap shops, and get them at a penny ? 

 From twopenny buns to cows was but an 

 easy transition to the learned Professor. 

 Whereas county gentlemen in England spend 

 an extra penny on buns, in Denmark there 

 is actually one cow to every two " people ;" 

 in Norway, one to every two-and-a-half (the 

 figures evidently being meant for a man and 

 his wife and child), and so on, through every 

 state or principality in the world, except 

 wretched England, which has only got one 

 cow to every dozen of the population. Thus, 

 there are six times as many cows in Den- 

 mark, in proportion to the population, as 

 there are in this unhappy country. We have 

 looked through the Professor's speech to see 

 if he did not make up the difference by 

 reckoning pumps, but we have failed to dis- 

 cover any allusion to the cow with the iron 

 tail. In pigs, we are worse off still. Den- 

 mark is again to the front. Notwithstanding 

 the little slice which Prussia and Austria cut 

 from that spare kingdom, Denmark has yet 



left one pig to every four-and-three quarters of 

 the people — which we can understand to 

 mean a man, his wife, child — but where is 

 the odd quarter to come from? England, it 

 appears, has one pig to eleven of the popula- 

 tion. We wonder if the short baker's dozen 

 get a pig among them ; or, if Professor 

 Rogers's arithmetic takes the form of the 

 school-boy's puzzle, "a herring and a half 

 for three-halfpence, how many for eleven- 

 pence ?" But we need hardly go on further 

 with our learned Professor — if we expect to 

 find any logic. " They would find," said he, 

 " the country squire against them, and the 

 parsons would follow suit," which was cer- 

 tainly not the case, so far as the army was 

 concerned, for a Col. Ouvry, after giving a 

 miniature history of England, fully endorsed 

 the opinion of Professor Rogers, that " the 

 greatest question in this country is the land 

 question." We quite agree with both of 

 these gentlemen — if they would only let us. 

 know what it is. 



THE COST AND EVILS OF GROUND GAME. 



AT the last meeting of the York Chamber 

 of Agriculture, Mr John Peacock, of 

 Mount Vale, delivered an address on the 

 above subject. 



The occupiers of farms, he said, did not 

 wish to dei)rive the landowner of the right 

 to shoot over his own estate, and it was not 

 desirable, for important reasons, to abolish 

 sporting, but to reduce the quantity of ground 

 game, that the landowner might follow his 

 favourite sport without serious loss to the 

 occupier. The farmer rarely found fault with 

 winged game. Partridges, comparatively, did 

 little harm, and pheasants were principally 

 fed in and near the woods in which they were 

 preserved. It was the over-preservation of 

 hares and rabbits to which the tenant-farmer 

 had serious objections. In estimating the 

 cost of their production, he calculated, from 

 information derived from good sources, and 



also from personal observation, that two hares 

 and two rabbits, when full grown, would eat 

 as much as a small sheep. This estimate, he 

 believed, would be found far within the mark 

 when it was considered what serious damage 

 those animals inflicted on the crops, and what 

 they consumed as food. 



LOSS TO THE COUNTRY BY AN EXCESS OE 

 GROUND GAME. 



At a meeting of the Midland Farmers' 

 Club, Mr Robotham stated that the practice 

 of presevering the game to the extent pre- 

 vailing in many districts had a bad eftect, 

 morally and physically, upon the farmer ; 

 the price of meat, in his opinion, being 

 greatly increased, owing to the immense 

 depredations of game, and that, therefore, 

 the whole population of the country was 

 directly interested in the question. Mr 



