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THE FARMER'8 MAGAZINE. 



OXFORD AND BANBURY UNITED AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



This meeting was held in turn at Baubury. The show of i 

 stock was still considered on the improvement, but the at- { 

 tendauce of visitors, from the unfavourable state of the j 

 weather, was not largfe. Mr. Langston won his own Champion I 

 Prize with " Royal Turk," purchased of Mr. Ambler at the I 

 Warwick National Show, where he was a great favourite with 

 all who saw him. Mr. Strattou sent Hickory Nut, Duke | 

 Humphrey, and others ; and Mr. Hewer also transplanted 

 some of his stock direct from Dorchester to Banbury. The 

 short-horn entry was, indeed, altogether very strong. Mr. 

 Game has entered an objection to some of the sheep, as not 

 shorn in accordance with the published conditious. Colonel 

 North presided at the dinner : — 



PRIZES FOR CATTLE. 

 JlTDQES :— S. Bloxirlge, Warwick. 

 C. Randall, Evesham. 

 J. Kobinson, Clifton, Olney. 



The beet horned animal in the yard, a silver cup, value £3 ."is., 

 to J. H. Langston, M.P., Sarsden House, Chipping Norton 

 (Royal Turk). 



The bpst bull, not less than two years old, £7, to J. H. Lang- 

 Bton, M.P. (Royal Turk). The second best, £3, to R. Stratton, 

 Broad Hinton, Swindon Commended: Mr. J. Dodwell, Long 

 Crendon, Bucks ; Mr. W. Hewer, Sevenhanipton, Wilts. 



The best' bull, not more than two years old, £o, to R. Stratton, 

 Broad Hinton. The second best, £i, to J. H. Lang.'ton. 



The bpst bull, under 15 months old, a silver cup, value £6 5s., 

 to W. Hewer, Sevenhanipton. Commended: G. Game, Churchill 

 Heath, Chipping Norton ; R. Stratton, Broad Hinton. 



The best cow of any age, in milk, having calved within six 

 months, £n, to R. Stratton, Broad Hinton. The second best, £3, 

 to J. H. Langston, M.P. 



The best heifer, under three years old. in milk, or in calf, £5, 

 to R. Stratton, Broad Hinton. The second best, £3, to R. Stratton. 



The best pair of heifers, under 18 months old, £5, to R. Strat- 

 ton, Broad Hinton. ThP second best, ^S, to Rev. C. W. Hol- 

 bech, Farnborough, Commended : Mr. T. Game, Broadmoor, 

 Gloucester. 



The bestpair of heifers, under 18 months old, the property of 

 a tenant farmer, a silver cup, valiip £5 £=! , to R. Stratton, Broad 

 I-Iinton. 



Highly commended : W. Cother, Middle Aston, for a fat cow. 

 Commended : W. Cother, f.ir another fat cow. 

 HORSES. 



The best brood mare for breeding hunters, a silver cup, value 

 £5 fiB., to Colonel North, M.P., Wroxton Abbey. 



The best mare with colt, £5, to B. MiUington, Ardley. The 

 second best, £3, to J. Greaves, Elsfield. 



SHEEP. 



The best Southdown ram of any age, £i, to Col. North, M.P. 

 The second best, £1, to Col. North. 



The best Down ram, of any age or breed, except Southdown or 

 Oxfordshire Down, £1, to H. J. Sheldon, Brailes House. The 

 second best, £i, to H. J. Sheldon. 



The best long wooUed shearling ram, £4, to W. Game, Bibury. 

 The second best, £2, to J. Gillett, Minster Lovel. 



The best long-woolled ram, above 2 years old, £4, to Wm. 

 Cother, Middle Aston. The second best, £i, to W. Cother. 



The best Oxfordshire Down shearling ram, £4, to J. Bryan, 

 Soutbleigh. The second best, .€2, to J. Druce, Ensham. 



The best Oxfordshire Down ram, above 2 years old, £4, and 

 extra prize of £3 Ss , to H. L. Gasltell, Kiddington. The second 

 best. £2, to J. Bryan, Southleigh. Commended : H. L. Oaskell ; 

 J. Bryan ; Duke of Marlboroush ; Joseph Druce. 



The best pen of five breeding Down ewes of any breed, except 

 Oxfordshire Downs, with their suckling lambs, £3, toE.Lythall, 

 Radford. 



The best pen of five breeding long-woolled ewes, with their 

 suckling lambs, £3, to Thos. Bletchingdon, The second, £2, to 

 Alban Bull, Drayton. 



The best pen of five breeding Oxfordshire Down ewes, with 

 their suckling lambs, £3, to the Duke of Marlborough, Blen- 

 heim. The srcond best, £2, to the Duke of Marlborough. 



Highly commended : W. Cother, for three ewes. 

 PIGS. 



The best boar, not less than twelve months, or more than three 

 years old, £3, to Col. Xorth, M.P. Coramendtd : W. Hemming, 

 Coldicot. 



The best boar, not more than twelve months, £2, and extra 

 prize of 2 ps., to Wm. Hewer, Sevenhanipton. Highly com- 

 mended : Joseph Druce. Commended : Mr. J. K. Tombs, 

 Langford. 



The best sow, above nine months, and not more than three 

 years old, £2, to J. K. Tombs. Highly comraendea : W. Hewer. 



The best sow, not exceeding nine months old, £2, to W. Hewer, 

 Sevenbampton. Commended: J. K. Tombs. 



PRIZES FOR IMPLE.MENTS. 

 Judges : — J. Coleman, Sulgiave. 

 J. Greaves, Elsfield. 

 T. Horwood, Steane. 

 S. Smith, Somnrton. 



Coleman's improved cultivator, £2. 



Seaman's patent improved harrows, £2. 



Braggin's patent hinge, £1. 



Gardner's patent chaff cutter, £1. 



Barford, collection of implements, £S lOs. 



Allgood and Gibbs, collection, £.3 10s. 

 Mascord, collection, £3. 



THE AGRICULTURE OF FLANDERS. 

 THE DISTRICT SURROUNDING DUNKIRK— FLEMISH IMPLEMENTS. 



Dunkerke, May, I860. 

 Nothing perhaps, to the observant traveller, is so 

 provocative of thought, as the quickness of the change 

 which the sailing of a few hours across the Channel 

 brings about, in throwing him amongst a people, and 

 amidst sights and scenes, so essentially different from 

 those with whom he has been accustomed to mingle, 

 and on which be has from infancy gazed. He leaves the 

 Thames, with its dingy huddled-together wharves, and its 

 smoke-engrained black masses of buildings, and after a 

 few hours mayhap of sick uneasy tossing, or perhaps 

 of pleasant sailing, he walks on deck to look out upon 

 quaint middle-aged gabled buildings, then red-tiled roofs 

 lying warmly, and then pure white walls dazzling 

 brightly in the sunshine, and on the somewhat silent, 

 and — to one fresh from the busy bustle of the banks of 

 the Thames — almost deserted quays; he sees lazily 

 lounging men in strange garb, soldiers and gendarmes 

 in varied costume and unusual numbers, and fresh 

 comely women hurrying along — for the women seem 

 only to be fervent in business — with graceful cloaks and 

 caps of dazzling whiteness. The very ships and boats 

 he passes in the harbour, and the heavy carls he hears 

 lumbering on its quays are all strange and new to him. 

 While nmsing in meditative mood on all this "jugglery" 



which a short steamboat sail has brought about, he is 

 roused to action, and in a short space of time through 

 the " passport " and " custom-house " examination, to a 

 thorough consciousness of the fact that, amongst the 

 strange people with whom he for a time has cast his lot, 

 and whose strange language is dinning in his ear, he is 

 to be no longer a free agent — no longer at liberty to 

 roam — *' no man to bid him nay," as in brave old Eng- 

 land ; but tracked from place to place in the pages of 

 the police books, obliged to be but a poor unit of the 

 countless numbers who, for reasons to be vainly under- 

 stood by him, consent to give up to a few all freedom 

 of action, and perhaps to a great extent all liberty of 

 expression of thought. These considerations, strangely 

 as they strike the traveller who visits for the first time 

 the Continent, need not, however, cause him any per- 

 manent uneasiness, for a little experience will soon con- 

 vince him that they will not in any way curtail his com- 

 fort. Unless he be a very pretentious fidgetty body 

 indeed — and people of this class had better remain 

 within the shadow of their chimney-piece — he will be 

 able to get along vrith an amount of interference with 

 his movements very much less than he might have an- 

 ticipated from his first experiences with the " passport " 

 or at the "custom-house." We have travelled not a 



