THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



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The cow stalls are separated by partitions carried up 

 quite to the ceiling, which seems to us an unnecessary waste 

 of material, and as having a tendency to obstruct venti- 

 lation. The liquid manure is collected in tanks, and after 

 being diluted with water, is carted out by means of a hogs- 

 head on a cart frame, and distributed over the land through 

 a perforated pipe, extended across the tail of the cart and 

 connected with the hogshead, the whole apparatus being 

 nothing other than the street sprinklers in common use in 

 this and other cities. 



Mr. Coming's herd usually comprises twenty head of stock, 

 but he has not so many at present. The price of first-class 

 females in England is about £6.5, and the charges of 

 importation (which include £15 for passage, the house on 

 deck, hay, straw, and feed) are £20 to £25 more, the 

 whole making the animal cost, delivered at Albany, within 

 £100. 



The bull Cardinal Wiseman, bred by Mr. Smithies, and now 

 ten years old, has been a fiae animal ia bis time. Ue has a 

 good frame, but it shows too plainly just now, for he is very 

 thiu and gaunt. A calf, by Defiance, out of Victoria 2nd, by 

 Cambria S87, was bred by Mr. Humphrie?, of Loraiu County 

 Ohio, and promises to make a superior animal. His sire and 

 himself were exhibited at Syracuse, at the State Fair, and the 

 calf seemed bo full of promise that Mr. Corning purchased 

 him. He is very smooth, his upper and lower lines good, crops 

 well filled, and drops well in the flank. 



Grace, an aged cow of Lord Berwick's breeding, is deep and 

 roomy, and has a. good flank. She is by Tom Thumb (243), 

 dam Wcod-Pigeon by the Count (251). Her dam was the win- 

 ner as the beat cow at Shrewsbury in 1856, and The Count 

 has sired some of Lord B'a best heifers. 



Victoria 4th, coming seven years' old, bj' Cardinal Wiseman, 

 out of Victoria 1st, ia an imported cow. She is very heavy 

 and in high condition. She is said to have had throughout 

 the winter otly two quarts of ship stuff, with hay and 

 stalks, but is really in too high flesh. She is very lengthy 

 and deep, and must weigh l,3001bs. Lady Qoddard, 

 another imported cow, Cora, and Princess, with a calf by her 

 side bj' Cardinal Wiseman, are worthy of notice, and the 

 young stock is quite creditable. 



The lovers of fine carriage horses would be pleased to see a 



pair of spanking bays that Mr. ^ drives. They can go 



in 3 : 13 double, and one of them in 2 : 45 single ; are without 

 a fault or blemish, sixteen hands high, six and seven years old, 

 and cost the nice little sum of £500. A brood mare of 

 wonderful strength and constitution, by an imported English 

 dray-horse out of a common mare, should not be passed with- 

 out a notice. She pulled twenty-six barrels of flour at one 

 load from the city to ths railroad depot across the river, with 

 enough men sitting on the thills to balance the load. 



We cannot conclude our notice of Herefords more appro- 

 priately than by quoting the language ueed by Mr. R. Smith 

 in his last report to the Royal Agricultural Society of 

 England : — 



" In our present day we see recorded in the Society's Jour- 

 nals au increasing number of competitors from different parts 

 of the kingdom. This proves that the value of the breed is 

 becoming more appreciated . A few years since they were 

 almost exclusively in the hands of the tenant farmers of their 

 native county. They now form the principal breed of the 

 counties of Monmouth, Radnor, Brecon, Salop, and psrts of 

 the counties of Gloucester, Worcester, Warwick, Stafford, 

 Wilts, Herts, Dorset, Somerset, and Cornwall. There are also 

 some good herds in North Wales and Scotland, for which dis- 

 tricts their hardiness of constitution, thick but mellow hides, 

 wavy, soft, and moderately long hair, render them peculiarly 

 adapted." 



At the Chester Show of the Royal Society we saw the 

 representatives of this breed. The entries were of Aged Bulls, 

 9, Young Bulls, 13, Bull Calves, 14, Cows in calf or milk, 8, 

 Heifers in calf or milk, 8, and Yearling Heifers, 14 entries. 

 The prize bull, the property of Mr. Price, girthed 8 feet 7 

 inches. Another highly commended bull, shown by Lord 

 Batemac, girthed 8 feet 9 inches. These exceeded in girth 

 the first prize old bull in the shorthorn class by 8 inches — his 

 girth being 8 feet 1 inch. The show of Herefords was said 

 to have outnumbered any previous one, with the exception of 

 that at Shrewsbury (a few miles from Lord Berwick's farm), 

 and to have been of excellent quality. It certainly was far 

 ahead of anything we have seen exhibited in this country as 

 yet ; but we trust the day [is not distant when on some one 

 of the show-grounda of Western Agricultural Societies as 

 respectable a congress of these valuable animals may be 

 ■New York Tribune. 



THE PRICE AND PRODUCTION OF BUTCHER'S MEAT. 



The growing increase in the consumption of butcher's 

 meat in the United Kingdom has become an important 

 consideration in agricultural management. During the 

 period of the low prices of wheat, it has prevented or 

 mitigated to a considerable extent the injurious effects 

 that otherwise must have been experienced by the tenant 

 farmer. This increased consumption arises from two 

 causes which in all probability will continue to operate, 

 namely — the increase of the population, at the rate of 

 1,000 per day, and the improvement in the condition 

 of the operative classe.s throughout the kingdom j con- 

 sequent upon the enormous extension of commerce and 

 manufactures, and the abundant employment created by 

 railway and other national works. As, therefore, this 

 demand is likely to become more extended rather than 

 diminished, the question of a future adequate supply 

 of meat is beginning to assume greater importance 



than even that of the home supply of bread corn ; in- 

 asmuch as the latter can be obtained, in case of need, 

 from almost every country with which we have com- 

 mercial intercourse, Whereas the importation of cattle 

 is wholly confined to a few neighbouring States, owing 

 to the danger and difficulty of longer sea voyages, 

 which involve a heavy per-ceutage of loss by deaths. 

 From those countries, too, whence we obtain the 

 largest and best supply of cattle and sheep, the ex- 

 portation appears to have reached its maximum. And, 

 although the quality is greatly improved by judicious 

 crossings with T Ji^h types, the actual gross weight 

 of meat is considerably smaller than formerly. This 

 may, in some degree, be owing to the stringency of 

 the Customs regulations for preventing the introduction 

 of diseased animals into the country. But, on the other 

 band, it is evident that in such f^mall, i)opulous, and 



