THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



JUNE, 1858. 



PLATE I. 

 PORTRAIT OF J. J. FARQUHARSON, ESQ. 



ENORAVF.D BY J, B. HUNT, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. 



PLATE II. 

 A HEREFORD PRIZE OX. 



THE PROPERTY OF MR. JOHN SHAW, OF HUNSBURY HILL, NORTHAMTON. 



J. J. FARQUHARSON, ESQ. 



This great Dorsetshire agriculturist and worthy 

 country gentleman first saw the light on October 

 9th, 17B4. Oxford claimed him in due course, and 

 he passed his undergraduate days pleasantly enough, 

 beneath the sound of "Mighty Tom" of Christ 

 Church. Treadwell was but a lad of six, playing 

 about among the hedgerows of Stoke Talmage, when 

 his future master flung aside his Herodotus for his 

 Somcrville, and commenced at two-and-twenty, with 

 a goodly band of whitecoUars, as huntsman to his 

 own pack. It was the English country squire at 

 once taking to the business of his vocation. 



Unlike many men, he did not begin with liar- 

 riers, or a three or four-days-a-weck pack, but 

 boldly flung himself at once into the fox-huntiug 

 breach, and hunted, at his own expense, all Dorset- 

 shire and part of Somersetshire six days a- week from 

 the very outset, with thirty horses, two kennels, and 

 ninety couple of hounds. Cranbourne Chase, with 

 its short oaks and liazel trees, was then, as it is now 

 (tliough it was rather short last season), the great 

 nursery of Dorsetshire foxes ; but its ycllow-brcasted 

 martens, to whose memory English historians still 



OLD SERIES.] 



continue to cling, as the latest reUcs of the vermin of 

 feudal times, have all but disappeared, along with 

 the badgers in Wychwood Forest. 



In addition to his extensive agricultural pursuits, 

 among which sheep-breeding is not the least, Mr. 

 Farquharson has always been an enthusiastic breeder 

 of horses, and his colours were once perpetually 

 seen in front at the county races. The Hobgoblin 

 strain, which goes through Annette back to Plian- 

 tom, has been his choicest blood of late years, and it 

 has crossed especially well with that of an Elis mare, 

 who died about two years since, leaving two rare 

 chesnuts— one of them Will-o'-the-Wisp— as her 

 legacy to the stud. It is upon The Pony, who is 

 by Cadiz, and quite as tender as a lover with hounds, 

 that Treadwell will go down to posterity in Grant's 

 picture, while his good master selected Botanist to 

 honour. 



It was no small sorrow to the white-collars and 

 farmers of Dorsetshire that " The Stiuirc " shoidd 

 have been prevented, by a severe horse-kick, from 

 hunting with them the last five weeks of the season; 

 and until he " pronounced the words of doom " at 

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