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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



Canterbury to calve, but only lay-in five days, and then 

 started on her tours once more. Lord Feversham's 

 neat little cow Symphony was commended, and his 

 Lordship won the head bull prize with his Skyrocket. 

 He is a particularly fine-quartered bull, though a little 

 deficient in the back, and barring the mane, he 

 not a little resembles in his forehand his sire Fifih 

 Duke of Oxfora. Earl Zetland was second with his 

 white Savilla by Lord Scarboro', a very promising 

 young bull with long quarters, and a very nice touch, 

 but rather strong shoulder points ; and Mr. Joseph 

 Dent was commended with his Sir Colin, a thrifty sort 

 of bull on a short leg, but with very little hair. Queen 

 of the Vale had Stajiley Rose (2) and Empress of 

 Hiiidostan (commended) in her very select class ; and 

 Soldier's Nurse carried on the Warlaby charter in the 

 yearling heifers. Mr. Jeffrey Bulmer was again second 

 to her with his Princess Royal 2nd, who wants only a 

 little time to ripen into a very nice heifer. The other 

 stock do not call for much comment. In the Leicester 

 shearling ram class, Mr. Wiley of Brandsby was first, 

 and Mr. Simpson of SpoflPorth second, against a good 

 field, and the former kept up his ancient renown, with 

 a pen of five shearling gimmers. The pig classes were 

 strong, Mr. Wainman taking first prize with his boars 

 of the great and small breed, and Mr. George Mangles 

 with his small sow. 



The show of Clevelands, and especially of brood mares, 

 was most excellent. Trimmer, the winner in the latter 

 class, is the property of the Guisboro' Alum Company, 

 and has won eleven prizes. The colour of her legs, and 

 her style and quality altogether, were hardly so striking 

 as that of the second mare (Wonderful Lass), who is 

 considerably younger, and has taken, we believe, up- 

 wards of twenty first prizes. The best three-year-old 

 coaching-gelding prize fell to a very good brown by 

 Pato, and the grey draught brood mare of Mr. Turner, 

 of Thornton le Beans, not only won the first prize her- 

 self, but presented her son at the Cleveland Court of 

 Agriculture as the best draught foal. The display of 

 hunting foals was remarkably interesting ; Fandango 

 winning second honours with his stock, and Bondholder 



the first ; while in the three-year-old, two-year-old, 

 and yearling hunter gelding classes, Barnton, 

 Wingenund, and Motley, all came to the fore. In 

 fact, we scarcely ever remember seeing so many 

 good horses of every class in one field, and out of the 

 288 entries very few were absent. For the best thorough- 

 bred stallion of the district Dr. Sangrado, Motley, Farn- 

 ham, and one or two more of less pretension were again 

 marched into the ring with another set of judges to re- 

 try their claims. The case really seemed to settle itself 

 and the handsome Motley, a son of the famous old 

 Touchstone, took the white ribbands out with him. The 

 implements were numerous and good, but the " Bradford 

 Company's washing machine," and the " Universal 

 Company's washing machine" were, as at Pontefract, 

 the pets of the multitude. 



The meeting was wound up by the jumping trials of 

 some very capital hunters, over stiff timber and fences ; 

 and so thorough were the secretary's arrangements, that 

 a temporary grand stand was erected for spectators. In 

 fact, it was the aim, as much as possible, to combine a 

 show and " a spectacle ;" and but for the sad weather, 

 he would have been most completely successful. "The 

 jumping horses" were divided into two classes — four- 

 year-old geldings in one and fillies of the same age in the 

 other — and Mr, Parrington took both the premiums. 

 King Charming, who was first at Redcar last year, was 

 declared to be the best horse, and a very clever one he 

 is. He was sold on the ground for £230. The mare 

 was perhaps more clearly the best of her lot, as the King 

 was run home very closely by a Dagobert horse, whose 

 rider very deservedly received the whip as the best 

 horseman. Mr. Parrington himself, did not this year 

 show his own nags, but satisfied with his previous 

 success entrusted their handling to a friend. Other 

 agricultural societies will, no doubt, follow suit ; but 

 we trust it will never be forgotten that the men of 

 Cleveland took the initiative, and that it may be the 

 pride of many an owner, to see his pet blood horse 

 ranked in that Hundred Plate List, which has been so gal- 

 lantly headed by Lord Zetland and Voltigeur. 



FRENCH AGRICULTURE. 

 THE POLICY OF NAPOLEON III. 



Napoleon III., writing in 1839 from Carlton-house 

 Terrace, expresses himself in the Preface to the cele- 

 brated " Idees Napoleoniennes " in the following 

 manner : — 



" If the destiny which my birth promised me had not 

 been changed by circumstances, as nephew of the Em- 

 peror I should have been one of the defenders of his 

 throne — one of the propagators of his ideas. The glory 

 would have been mine to form one of the pillars of his 

 edifice, or to die in one of the squares of his Guard, 

 fighting for France. The Emperor is no more, but his 

 spirit is not dead." 



The genius of Napoleon I. was apparent on the quick 

 analysis he made, on accession to power, between the 

 relation of the past and the present — the present and 

 the future. 



The nephew says that his illustrious uncle had three 

 questions to solve : 



" 1st. What are the ideas that have passed away 

 never to return ?" 



" 2nd. What are those likely eventually to triumph ?" 



" 3rd. What ideas are those which admit of au imme- 



diate application, and which will accelerate the reign of 

 those that will ultimately prevail?" 



That uncle, casting his keen glance around, sought 

 in the past a reason for the then state of misery 

 in France — the rapid decrease of wealth and popu- 

 lation. Struck with the comparison of the soil and 

 climate, the extent and population of France with 

 that of England — a comparison all in favour of his own 

 country — he may naturally be supposed to have ex- 

 claimed. What means starvation here, and abundance 

 there .' The problem he found the more interesting, 

 too, from the fact that two hundred years ago France 

 was farther advanced in agriculture than England ; so 

 that for the whole of that period during which the popu- 

 luation of England was being decimated by Intestine 

 war, and insecurity opened its incendiary fire upon the 

 ranks of progress and laid waste three-fourths of the 

 land, France supplied England with corn. 



But the pages of the "Theatre d'A<!;ricuUure," 

 written by Oliver de Serres, a Protestant i..)blcman, in 

 1600, by the beneficent light of which we read of a peo- 

 ple " dwelling safely under their own viae and fig-tree, 



