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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



potatoes, swede turnips, mangel-wurzel of different varieties ; 

 and a premium of £3 is added for " the seedsman who shall 

 exhibit the best collection of grasses, grass seeds, wheat, oats, 

 and barley, in the ear; turnips, mangels, and general agricul- 

 tural seeds." There are also a number of prizes offered for 

 fruits, vegetables, and flowers, to be competed for by cottagers, 

 being labourers, artificers, or working men : these prizes will 

 have a useful effect iu inducing persons to keep up a show of 

 flowers in their gardens during the autumnal season. The last 

 special prize is one of £5, offered to the saddler who shall ex- 

 hibit " the best set of harness for agricultural purposes, light- 

 ness, durability, and cheapness being essential." — Abridged 

 from the Midland Counties Herald. 



PLATE II. 



FREDERICK, 



A CELEBRATED SHORT-HORN BULL. 



Frederick (11489), bred by Colonel Towneley, 

 of Towneley Park, was calved February 6th, 1849; 

 he was got by Duke (9032), dam (Bessy) by Thick 

 Hock (6601), grandam (Barmpton Rose) by Ex- 

 pectation ( 1 988), great grandam by Belzoni (1709), 

 gr. gr. g. d. by Comus (I86I), gr. gr. gr. g. d. by 

 Denton (198), — by a son of Comet (155). 



Unlike the majority of our most famous short- 

 horns, Frederick was never entered at any of our agri- 

 cultural shows. Colonel Towneley very handsomely 

 gave his tenantry the use of him up to four years 

 o\d, when the bull was brought back home a^ain 

 to Towneley. Since his return to this famous herd, 

 he has of course had better opportunities, and he 

 now ranks as one of the most fashionable stock 

 getters of the day. Either for the prices they have 

 made, or the prizes they have taken, the produce 

 of no animal has ever yet equalled that of Frede- 

 rick. For instance, his son. Master Butterfly, the 

 first prize bull at Chelmsford, realized the unpre- 

 cedented sum of twelve hundred guineas ; while 

 such names as Roan Duchess the Second, Blanche 

 the Sixth, Frederick the Second, Ringlet, The Royal 

 Butterfly, and others, speak still further to his 

 repute. 



Frederick, though now upwards of nine years 

 old, is as fresh as ever he was ; and his calves of 

 this year are quite as ])romising as they hitherto 

 have been, which is saying no little for them. 



WARTS ON HORSES. — The following recipe ap- 

 peared in The Field : — "One part of arsenious acid, in a 

 state of fine powder, intimately mixed with four parts of 

 lard, may be applied over and around the excrescences every 

 other day. This will excite sloughing action, and in about 

 a fortnight the warts will be thrown off." I have used it 

 with perfect success on a valuable young thorough-bred 

 stallion, which had upwards of a score of large warts upon 

 him. Its operation was not quite so rapid as stated in the 

 recipe, as it was five or six weeks from the first application 

 before the last of the warts dropped out. The wounds are 

 now healing fast. The warts had jireviously been rubbed 

 with iodine, under the advice of a local veterinary surgeon, 

 but without effect.— Carlisle, in Field. 



THE BAKEWELL-FRAMED LINCOLN 

 SHEEP. 



Sir, — It has been asserted by many breeders of short-wooUed 

 sheep that a ram is not to be found, nor ever has been, having 

 the Bakewell cast or mould with a Lincolnshire coat of wool on 

 his back. As a proof that their opinions are erroneous, 1 will 

 mention three Lincoln rams, of different years, belonging to 

 different men ; and I give them as model and specimen sheep 

 for profit. lathe year 1844, Mr. Tirrell, of Eagleton, near 

 Oakham, Rutland, let an extraordinarily good Lincoln three- 

 shear ram to Mr. Clarke, then bailiff to the Marquis of Exeter. 

 He was used by Mr. Ivins, an eminent ram breeder, of Haydon, 

 near Banbury. This famous ram was exhibited at the North- 

 ampton great ram fair on the 19th of September, and struck 

 many spectators with admiration when they beheld heavy wool, 

 mutton, and the Bakewell symmetry combined. Mr. Tirrell 

 has bred from the best flocks in the county of Lincoln for up- 

 wards of half a century, and in 1855 he bought a shearhog 

 ram at Peterborough fair, of Mrs. Casswell, for £40 ; and last 

 year he gave the well-known Mr. Kirkham, of Hagnaby, £48 

 3s. 6d. for a ram, at the same fair. Mr. Tirrell and his son let 

 yearly upwards of 130 rams, without a show-day, and without 

 taking any to fairs or markets. 



The second Bakewell Lincoln ram was bred by the above- 

 mentioned Mr. Kirkham, aud was sold by auction at Peter- 

 borough for £95, three years back, to the celebrated ram 

 breeder, Mr. Casswell, of Laughtoa, near Falkingham, 



" The true value of anything, 

 Is what by auction it will bring." 



The third Bakewell Lincoln ram was bred by Mr. John 

 Stokes, of Caldecott, Rutland, and exhibited last year at Up- 

 pingham, Rockingham fair, Kettering fair, and Peterborough, 

 ^ere £70 was offered for him. Common sense says, that if 

 three male sheep can be bred in the desired form, and Lincoln 

 wool upon them, some of the sisters of the said rams will of 

 coarse be of the same cast and wool. Having obtained what 

 you require in male and female, do not put brother to sister, 

 but to ewes of the same stamp not related, which would pro- 

 duce the most profitable breed of sheep upon the face of the 

 earth. The reason of Mr. Tirrell letting so many rams, and so 

 readily, to a vast number of old customers, is, that he is not 

 an expensive or extravagant keeper or feeder ; so that he can 

 afford to let his half-fat sheep at less money than the high and 

 expensive feeders : aud, although his sheep are lean, they are 

 of the best Lincoln blood— nay, second to none — and filter 

 for the purpose for which they are kept than monstrously fat 

 house, alias stall-fed, sheep, which require lifting up, and are 

 fitter for the butcher than to put to ewes. I have known 

 Cotswold three-shear rams stall or house-fed until they have 

 weighed alive upwardaof 30 8tone,or above 701bs. per qr. when 

 slaughtered. Mr. Tirrell says all rams ought to be allowed 

 to rove at large : exercise is natural and beneficial to every 

 animal. 



I conclude my letter by stating that report says, upon good 

 authority, that Mr. Bryan Ward, of Drayton on- Well and 

 Leicestershire, makes upwards of £1,200 a-ye«r by the letting 

 of Lincolnshire rams of the best blood. The Mark Lane Ex- 

 press has always been opposed to over-feeding male animals. 



Samuel Arnsdy. 



Millfield, Pderborough, Aug. 3rd, 1858. 



