THE FARMER'S MAGAZIKE. 



AUGUST, 1858. 



PLATE I. 



PRIZE LEICESTERS, 



THE PROPERTY OF MR. W. SANDAY, OF HOLME PIERREPONT, NOTTINGHAM. 



"Mr. Sanday is to the Leicester what Mr. Webb is to the Southdown. He had, indeed, yet more his 

 own way, and took every prize that was offered. For the pure Leicester there is no other man hke 

 him; and however fond some of us may be of tryinjy our hand at experiments, it is here you must go 

 again and again for the cross, just as you would to the thorough-bred horse. There may be bigger 

 sheep than Mr. Sanday's, but there are none safer to deal with." 



The above extract is from our own report of the Agricultural Society's Meeting at Salisbury, last year. 

 These portraits are from the same show. The first sheep— to the left of the picture, that is — is from the 

 first-prize pen of shearUng ewes. Her pedigree, written in somewhat pecular cypher, makes her by 

 M, U., dam by No. 3, grandam by K. G. 



The next in our print is the first-prize aged ram by W. H., dnm by Y., grandam by H. W. H. was a 

 prize sheep at Windsor, Y. the first-prize at Norwich, and H. second at Shrewsbury, 



The third sheep is the " best shearling ram," also by W. H., dam Y. H., grandam (P. P.) by D, N. 

 The latter (P. P.) was one the first-prize ewes at AVindsor. None of these sheep had ever been exhibited 

 previous to the Salisbury show. 



Mr, Sanday did not enter at Chester,, and the class sufTered materially in character from his absence. 



PLATE II, 

 QUEEN MARY, the dam of Blink Bonny and Haricot. 



(For descripiioii see page 102 J 



SEWAGE MANURE. 



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



Fortunately for sanitary improvement, and for 

 irrigation, the sewers of London have been in the 

 summer of 1858, rendering themselves very disa- 

 greeable. Their conduct has seriously annoyed 

 their owners, and disgusted the Parliament assem- 

 bled near their mouths. The pernicious nuisance 

 has at last forceditself upon the attention of the Go- 

 vernment ; the interest, therefore, of a lai-ge sum of 



OLD SERIES.] 



money is to be guaranteed for the construction of 

 capacious transverse or intercepting sewers. The 

 sewage of London is to be received in these before 

 it reaches the Thames, and is thence to be carried 

 either far down the river, or on to the shores of the 

 German ocean. At such a time it may be well if 

 we again examine the guiding facts, which have 

 been recently determined with regard to the real 

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