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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



Jolly, Roseneath. Second prize, ^], Jeffrey Bulmer. Third, 

 Princess Alice. 



LEICESTER OR LONG-WOOLLED SHEEP. 



b'or the best Ram of any age Mrj, Joseph Snopson, 

 Spofforth Park. Commended : Joseph Simpson. 



For the best Shearling Ram f'-5, Jsmes Newhonse, Cald- 

 well, Darlington. Commended : James Newhouse. 



For the best Pen of Five Shearling Gimmers ^'3, Samuel 

 Wilev. 



PIGS. 



For the best Boar, large breed ^'3, H. Marshall, Sands 

 House, Darham. 



For the best Boar, small breed M, George Mangles, 

 ( iivendale, Ripon. 



For the best Sow, large breed aG3, Wm. Braithwaite, Free- 

 liolder's Home Darlington 



For the best Sow, small breed .£2, George Mangles, 

 Giyendale. 



For the best Pig, the property of a Cottager £1, Robert 

 Stockdale, Church Row, Darlington. Second prize, George 

 Thornton, Brandon. Third prize, James Towers, West 

 Auckland. 



HORSES. 



For the best Saddle Mare £b, Colonel Stobart, Etherley 

 House, Bishop Auckland. 



For the best Harness Mare £^j, John Smith, Long New- 

 ton. Highly commended: Thomas Charlton, Sedgefield. 



For the best Cart I\Iare £-J, William Proud, Springwell 

 House, Kirk Hammerton, York. 



Sweepstakes of Os. each, with £2 added by the Society 

 All- the best Foal for the Saddle, George Nellist^ East Thick- 

 ley, Shildon. 



Sweepstakes of .^s. each, with £i aided by the Society 

 fur the best Foal for Harness, J. W. Pease. 



Sweepstakes of 5s. each, with £2 added by the Society 

 for the best Cart Foal, John T'arner. 



For the best 3 years old Colt or Filly for the Field £5, 

 J. W. Pease. 



For the best 3 years old Cart Colt or Filly ^£5, John 

 Edward Lee. 



For the best 2 years old Colt or Filly for the Field £i, 

 George Leng, Low Bani, near Bamardcastle. 



For the best 2 years old Colt or Filly for Harness £-1, 

 John Wilkinson Humble, HartburU; Stockton-on-Tees. 



For the best 2 years old Cart Colt or Filly £i, William 

 Dickman, Lumley. 



For the best 2 years old Colt or Filly for the Field £S, 

 Col. Stobart. Highly commended : John Robinson. 



For the best Yearling Colt or Filly for Harness i'3, Geo. 

 Leng. 



For the best Yearling Cart Colt Filly a63, Joseph 

 Linsley. 



For the best Hunter, Mave, or Gelding under 8 Y'ears of 

 Age, qualified to cany 12 stones with Hounds, and war- 

 ranted Sound at the time of entry ^10, John Smith, Long 

 Newton. 



IMPLEMENTS: 



William Sawney, Beverley. £1 for the best Blowing and 

 Hariff Machine. 



John Teasdale, Bemeston, Bedale, £1 for Corn Drill, 

 Turnip Drill, and Mangold Wurtzel Drill. 



North of England Implement Coropany, Stockton on- 

 Tees, £1 for Snmuelson's Improved Double-action Hay- 

 making Machine ; and ;£1 for general stand. 



Samuel Tuke Stephenson, 9it, High-street, Stockton-on- 

 Tees, ^'1 for warranted net work. 



Ten Shillings was awarded to Mr. Cummins, for Garden 

 Chairs. 



AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS IN AUSTRALIA. 



One of the results of the late Statistical Congress is 

 the accumulation of a large amount of very valuable 

 statistical information from different countries, and the 

 presentation to the Government of many elaborate 

 official papers connected with the progress of States and 

 Colonics, furnished by the several delegates. These, 

 we hope, will be published at an early date, and not 

 slumber on the shelves of the Board of Trade, The 

 great interest of these papers is their freshness and 

 authenticity, the information, for the most part, being 

 brouglit down to the close of last year, instead of being, 

 like most official papers, two or three years in arrear ; 

 at least this is certainly the case as respects the colonial 

 reports handed in by the delegates for Australia, the 

 Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, Mauritius, British Guiana, 

 Jamaica, &c. The eight delegates from the Australian 

 and New Zealand colonies (who made a collective re- 

 port, to economize time at the meeting,) have wisely 

 taken the matter of prompt publication in their own 

 hands, and have placed before the public a most 

 valuable and instructive condensed report of the social 

 progress and present condition of the colonies with 

 which they are identified. To this document, which 

 will have only a limited circulation, we would 

 direct the attention of our readers as containing many 

 important facts which come stamped with authority. 

 We need not advert to the historical details, mining 

 progress, and other particulars, but shall refer chiefly 

 to the agricultural condition of the colonies, identified 



as they now are so closely with this country as pro- 

 ducing and consuming Stales. One extraordinary fact 

 we may primarily mention, that will startle many by 

 its magnitude, and that is that the gold production of 

 the Australian colonies since 1851 has already exceeded 

 in value £101,000,000 I The effect of this gold yield, 

 and of the immigration it has induced, has been con- 

 siderable, especially in Victoria. There the wages of 

 skilled labour prior to the gold mining were 6s. or 8s. 

 a-day; they rapidly advanced during two years, and 

 for a short time stone-masons and some others were 

 receiving 40s. a-day. After a rapid fall there has been, 

 until lately, some degree of steadiness at about one- 

 third of these singularly high rates. But one may 

 infer that there is evidently another level yet to be re- 

 ceded to, under this continuous development of the 

 colony, although the classes affected have the usual 

 reluctance to regard their own case in its downward 

 aspect. In New South Wales aud other colonies these 

 rates of wages have been less extravagant as well as 

 fluctuating. The wages even at their highest rates 

 were not unrequired. "While some articles of the im- 

 port market were even superabundant, other things, 

 more dependent on colonial production, but not less 

 necessary, bore enormous prices. Cottages at .£400 

 a-year were the natural result of bricks at j£'12 per 

 1,000, instead of the previous rate of 20s. ; while water 

 at 53. a cask, and firewood at several pounds a load, 

 instead of scarcely as ma^y shillings, made havoc of 



