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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



Best two-year-old coaching filly, £2, Joseph Latbum, 

 York ; second ditto, £!■ James Foster. Wistow. 



Best three-yenr-old roadster gelding, £i>, John Long, 

 Selby. 



Best three-year-old roadster fillj', £3, Joseph Bell ; second 

 ditto, £1, John Long. 



Best two-year-old roadster gelding, £',^, T. Acomb, Pop- 

 pleton; second ditto, £1, W. K. Goodbarne, Tadcaster. 



Beet two-year-old roadster filly, £2, John Atkinson, 

 Hazlewood. 



Best roadster nag, or mare, of any age, £5, Henry 

 Bowser, Market Weighton : second ditto, £2, Messrs. 

 Consitt, Market Wcighton. 



Best pony not exceeding fourteen hands, of any age, £3, 

 Charles Croskell, York ; second ditto, £1, John Wells, 

 Selby. 



Best pair of horses, of either sex, for agricultural pur- 

 poses, worked during the season, £5, Wm. Angus, Bain- 

 ton ; second ditto, £2, T. Acomb, Poppleton. 



Best three years old agricultural gelding, £3, Thomas 

 Upton, Pallathorpc ; second ditto, £1, W. S. Clough, 

 Eccup. 



Best three years old agricultural filly, £2, Thomas Acomb, 

 Poppleton ; second ditto, £1, W. Proude, Thornbill. 



Best two years old agricultural gelding, £3, W. K. 

 Goodbarne, Tadcaster ; second ditto, £1, W. Houseman, 

 Tadcaster. 



Best two years old agricultural filly, £2, T. Acomb, 

 Poppleton; second ditto, J. Tennant, Keightley, Burton. 



Best three years old agricultural filly, £2, R. Stoker, 

 Rythor ; second ditto, £1, ditto. 



EXTRA STOCK. 



SHORT-HORNED CATTLE. 

 Best, Lord Londesborough ; second ditto, Lord Londes- 

 borough. 



PIGS. 

 Best and second ditto, George Hutchinson, Prospect 

 House, York. 



HORSES. 

 Best and second ditto, J. Ramsdale, Holm-upon-Spalding 

 Moor, for entire coaching colt. 



SHEEP. 

 Henry Bowser, Market Weighton, one fat wether, first; 

 Simpson Staveley, Tebthorpe, Driffield, fat ewe, second. 



CATTLE. 



Best lot of six shorthorned steers and heifers, not exceed- 

 ing two years old, silver tankard, given by the Right Hon. 

 Lord Londesborough, and competed for by his tenantry in 

 any part of Yorkshire, Henry Hutchinson, Flaxley Lodge. 



JUDGES OF MACHINERY. 



Mr. James Godsman, North Milford, Tadcaster ; Mr. Robt. 

 Smith, Selby : Mr. B. Nicholson, Sturton Grange, Gar- 

 forth, Leeds. 



IMPLEMENTS. 



Wm. Liversedge, Selby, £5, for the best assortment of 

 implements, and £','> for the best implement of any kind, 

 Davy Brothers portable steam engine. 



Nicholas Gascoigne, Wetherby, £2, for the best turnip 

 cutter. 



William Walker, Victoria Foundry, York, £1, for col- 

 lection of cooking-ranges. 



W. Sawney, Beverley, £2, for the best winnowing ma- 

 chine. 



Isaac Ty8on,Selby, £2, for combined thrashing and double 

 jirinnowing machine, to thrash, shake the straw, riddle, 

 home barley, and winnow, complete for market; 10s. tor 

 patent mill for grinding grain into fine meal ; and 10s. for 

 tooth horse rake. 



Robert Blades, Tadcaster, 10s., for eleven-coulter drill, 

 with front steerage. 



John Barker, Uunnington, York, £2, for the best scari- 

 fier. 



Henrjr Marshall, George-street, York, lOs,, for Cambridge 

 roller, with improved drill attached. 



William Barker, Dunnington, York, 10s., for scuffler. 



William Gelder, of North Cave, near Market Weighton, 

 £1 1 Os., for waggon . 



George Hunter, Ulceby, 10s., for four-horse hoe or 

 scuffler, for working between the rows of green crops. 



Daniel Harland, of Osbaldwick, near York, £2, for the 

 best cart for agricultural purposes. 



John Robinson, of Mark-lane, Leeds, 10s., for root 

 pulper. 



Richard Saunders, North Cave, Brough, lOs., for collec- 

 tion of implements. 



John Paver, South Milford, ICs., for wheeled light wherry 

 or waggon upon patent axles, fitted with break to ease 

 horses going down hills. 



William Steele, Market Weighton, lOs., for whee'ed 

 plough. 



The day was beautiful and fine, and, attracted by the 

 beautiful weather and by the cheap trains which the North 

 Eastern Company ran, large numbers of people from the 

 district visited the show. 



THE OVER-FEEDING OF SHOW STOCK. 



Sir,— I have read with much interest your able remarks 

 on the Chester Show, more particularly such as relate to 

 the shorthorn portion of the live stock, where you boldly 

 express your, opinion respecting the merits of different 

 animals, regardless whether the}' were noticed by the judges 

 or otherwise. 



You will agree with me. Sir, that the best shorthorn bull 

 in the world is of no value as a bull if he will not serve 

 cows, and get them in-calf. But to have been a successful 

 exhibitor at the shows of the Royal Agricultural Society 

 for the last few years, a bull must have been fed to this 

 diseased state. 



Most frequenters of the sho^-yard recollect that first- 

 class bull " John o'Groat," at the Salisbur3'show; how he 

 suifered in the yard, and died a short time afterwards, 

 whilst yet a young bull. The case of "John o'Groat" is 

 that (if many other bulls. Not probably fed to the extreme 

 pitch he was, but fed so that they are useless to put to 

 cows, and either have to be " wasted" for a twelvemonth, 

 or they are kept as " show bulls,'' and are sent abroad or 

 quietly slaughtered when they have won all the prizes they 

 can. 



The Council of the Royal Agricultural Society will 

 greatly increase the practical value of these exhibitions, by 

 selecting as judges gentlemen who can rightly distinguish 

 between an animal whose form is heavily covered with flesh, 

 hiding his faults, and regardless of his utility and working- 

 power, and one which is in a natural state, is a really good 

 animal without disguise, and can serve cows. 



At the Chester show we have noticed a move in the 

 right direction. In yearling bulls, more particularlj-, many 

 fat well-got-up animals were passed by the judges, whose 

 owners had considered them tolerably safe for a prize. Lord 

 Hill's " Iletman" and Mr. Marjoribank's "Great Mogul" 

 were neither of them over-fed, and showed all their defects. 

 Both bulls have been in full work — many cows and heifers, 

 we were assured, being in-calf to each of them — and yet 

 they beat far more highly-fed competitors. 



Sir, encourage such decisions ; give them your able and 

 staunch support. Forgive even a mistake in the award of 

 a prize to a poor bull, as many a mistake is made in an 

 over-fed animal. 



Yours faithfully, 



A Fob to Fat Bulls. 



