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class were Colonel Pennant's Sir Colin Campbell, 

 Mr. Lynn's Great Comet, and Mr. Noakes' Prince 

 Alfred the Second. 



The portrait of Royal Butterfly was taken last 

 year at Warwick, when he had not quite developed 

 into the magnificent animal he is now become. Our 

 report of the Canterbury Meeting, in another part 

 of the present number, thus speaks of him : — 

 " Royal Butterfly is still the pride of the entry. 

 Never has so good a looking young bull to begin 

 with, continued to improve so much and he is now 

 very nearly perfection . With really a line of beauty 



running along him, a splendid forehand, great 

 girth and size, he unites in the highest degree 

 the yet more innate advantages of quality and 

 pedigree. He has, too, a grand, massive head, 

 kindly in expression, but still with all the attributes 

 of a male animal ; while his condition was admira- 

 ble. He certainly did not look over-pampered. 

 The very fastidious might say he did not finish 

 quite even over the quarter, but there has rarely 

 been a bull over which the critic could find less 

 legitimate cause of complaint than Royal But- 

 terfly." 



PLATE II. 

 SUMMERSIDE; A Thorough-bred Filly. 



Summerside, bred by Admiral Harcourt in 

 1856, is by West Australian, out of EUerdale by 

 Lanercost, her dam by Tomboy — Tesane by 

 Whisker. 



West Australian, bred by Mr. Bowes in 1850, 

 is by Melbourne, out of Mowerina, an own sister 

 to Cotherstone. West Australian, a winner of 

 both Derby and St. Leger, is commonly allowed 

 to have been the best horse of this century. Lord 

 Londesborough gave five thousand guineas for 

 him, and the horse went to the stud the next 

 season. His stock consequently first appeared 

 in 1858, since when Adelaide, Summerside, Joskin, 

 Mazzini, Penalty, St. Clarence, Ticket-of-Leave, 

 Birdcage, Chirper, Edmund Kean, North Lan- 

 cashire, Penalty, Slut, the Wizard, and others have 

 been credited to his account. His produce won 

 one of the three great races the very first year they 

 had the opportunity. At the Grimston sale in 

 June, following the decease of Lord Londes- 

 borough, West Austrahan was sold, to go to 

 France, for three thousand guineas. Count de 

 Morny was the purchaser. 



EUerdale, the dam of Summerside, bred by 



Admiral Harcourt in 1844, is almost equally 

 famous. In five foals out of her, we begin with 

 that good mare Ellermire ; next in succession 

 comes Eihngton, a winner of the Derby; then 

 Wardermaske ; Gildermere, who ran a dead heat 

 for the Oaks in 1858, and Summerside who won the 

 Oaks in 1859. She was barren in 1857. EUerdale 

 herself was a capital mare, a good third for the 

 Oaks of her year, and a stout runner up to six 

 years old. She, too, was sold at the Grimston 

 sale for one thousand one hundred and twenty 

 guineas — a great price for a brood mare — to Mr. 

 Blenkii'on. 



Summerside is a brown filly, standing fifteen 

 hands two inches high. She has rather a Mel- 

 bourne frontispiece, with a star on the forehead. 

 She has a good blood-like neck, a capital shoulder 

 and rare back and loins. Her quarters, too, are 

 very strong and muscular, and she is altogether 

 a fine, low, and lengthy filly, — a long way the 

 best-looking of this talented family. She was 

 sold at Tattersall's in February last, for eight 

 hundred guineas, to Mr. R. C, Naylor, in whose 

 possession she still continues. 



GUANO AND ITS SUBSTITUTES. 



BY CUTHBERT W. JOHNSON, ESQ., F.B.S. 



There have been one ov two valuable series of 

 experiments recently published, on the fertilizers 

 the best adapted for grass and roots. One labo- 

 rious investigation on the effect of diflferent ma- 

 nures on natural pastures, has been, for some 

 years, pursued at Rothamstead. Another — the trials 

 at Eccles Newton, near Kelso, by a skilful Scotch 

 farmer— was on the subject I have taken for this 

 little essay: on the comparative value of other 

 manures as substitutes for guano. 



The high price of guano, the low value of 

 corn, and the increasing demand for animal 

 food at the present period, naturally enough 

 lead the cultivator to pay more than ordinary 

 attention to the best means of increasing the 



produce of the food for stock, and, as guano is 

 one of the most powerful, yet expensive agents 

 he can well employ, to endeavour to discover if 

 cheaper fertilizers can be employed. Then again, 

 as there is every reason to believe that live stock 

 will long continue to be the most remunerative 

 portion of the farms of this country, it is pretty 

 certain that we can hardly direct our attention to 

 a more profitable section of agriculture than 

 the best modes of increasing the number of 

 our domestic animals, or, what is nearly the 

 same thing, enlarging the supply of their food. 



If, indeed, we refer to the prices obtained for meat 

 during the last twenty years, we find how strong 

 has been the tendency of the meat market during 



