THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



OCTOBER, 1858. 



PLATE I. 

 A PRIZE DEVON OX. 



This ox, bred and fed'by Lord Leicester, at Holkham, was calved on the 30th of October, 1853. 

 His sire was Musician (255), grandsire Quartley's Prince of Wales (105), dam Cinderella (71), and 

 grandam Caroline (60). 



At the Birmingham Show, in December, 1856, he took the first prize of £10, with the silver medal 

 for the breeder, as the best Devon steer under three years and three months old. At Poissy, in the 

 spring of 1857, he received a prize of l,000f. At the Norfolk Agricultural Society's meeting, in June 

 1857, betook the prize of £5, with the silver medal, as the best fat steer of any breed. At the 

 Birmingham Show, in December 1857, he was awarded the first prize of £10 as the best Devon ox, the 

 extra prize of £20 as the best of all the Devons, and Lord "Ward's prize of £25 as the best ox bred and 

 fed by an exhibitor, and the silver medal for the breeder. 



This was altogether an admirable beast, most symmetrical in form and fine in quality. Indeed, 

 his symmetry was considered the most perfect of any animal we have now had " out" for many years. 

 At the Birmingham Meeting, in 1 856, he was one of the three ultimately selected by the judges as worthy 

 of the gold medal, and was very near taking it ; the first time a Devon ever came so close on the chief 

 honors in the Midland counties. 



Alma Mater claimed him for the sacrifice — procumbit humi bos! Mr. Stevens, of Oxford, must close 

 this sad eventful history, and tell how mighty Dons and jovial Fellows dallied over the sweet short-rib 

 and prime sirloin of Holkham's famous ox. 



PLATE 11. 



THE FILLER. 



The Filler has a good deal of the character of the Clydesdale about her, and the scene altogether 

 a Scotch look. What with the girl petting her favourite, the old bearded mountaineers, and the 

 more picturesque than tidy stabling, the make-up of a very pleasing picture has been obtained. In a 

 few years hence it may be more difficult to find. The steam-plough is to out-pace even the smart- 

 actioned horses of the Clyde. The bothies and shealings have latterly been subject to consider- 

 able improvement, and modern Agriculture may yet find shoes and stockings for hiv Highland 

 Lassie. More machinery and better buildings will promise to make sad havoc of the poetry even of a 

 hill farm, and what may look very well in a picture may hardly pay in practice. "Are not the cattle 

 beautiful?" asked a friend of an agriculturist, over one of Claude's master-pieces. "Well, they may 

 be beautiful," responded the other, " but I should be very sorry to have such a ragged lot about my 

 place." Our artist's make-up may be open to some such similar a criticism, 

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