THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



APRIL, 1860. 



PLATE I. 

 LONGBOW; A Thoroughbred Stallion. 



THE PROPERTY OF THE EARL OF DERBY. 



Longbow, bred by Lord Derby in 1849, is by 

 Ithuriel, out of Miss Bowe, by Catton, her dam — 

 Tranby's dam — by Orville — Miss Grimstone, by 

 Weasel — Ancaster — Damascus Arabian. 



Ithuriel, also bred by Lord Derby in 1841, was 

 by Touchstone, out of Verbena, by Velocipede. 

 Li the stud Ithuriel is better known as the sire of 

 Iris, a winner of the Oaks, Acrobat, a first fa- 

 vourite for the Derby, Sir Rowland Trenchard, 

 Dame Tattle, Cerito, Longbow, and many other win- 

 ners. Lord Derby sold him to go to Russia in 185j. 



Miss Bowe, bred by Mr. Townroe, in 1834, and 

 purchased by Lord Derby when a three-year-old, 

 IS the dam of Antelope, William Tell, Bowstring, 

 Archery, Strongbow, Crossbow, Iris, Longbow, 

 Two Strings, Boiardo, De Clare, Target, Boome- 

 rang, Tom Bowline, and others. Some of these, 

 such as Iris, Longbow, Boiardo, and De Clare, 

 have been rather famous race-horses. 



Longbow is a beautiful bright bay horse, stand- 

 ing sixteen hands high. He has a fine expressive 

 head, with a capital eye, good crest and shoulder, 

 and altogether is of wonderful length forward. He 

 has an immense back and loins, muscular, but not 



over lengthy quarters, and he stands rather high 

 from the hock to the ground. These are rather 

 inclined to be curby, while his arms are good, but 

 he is not large below the knee. Longbow is a very 

 stylish, handsome horse ; a little leggy perhaps, to 

 look at, but showing an immense deal of breeding. 

 He has the further recommendation of a famous 

 temper and an excellent constitution. He was 

 painted by Mr. Hall last summer at Knowsley, 

 where his box stands in the centre of the Park — 

 having Forshaw the stud groom's house at the 

 back, and the mares' paddocks beautifully laid out 

 and divided by stone-walls, as the prospect for the 

 front. 



Longbow's stock first came out, as two years 

 old, in 1857, when he opened with two out of his 

 three winners of such promise as Toxophilite and 

 Longrange. Smut, Twang, Bopeep, Streamer, 

 Medallion, and Sir Joseph Hawley's Venus filly, 

 are further included amongst the winners accredited 

 to Longbow, in his, so far, brief trial as a stallion. 

 He stills stands at Knowsley at 15 sovs. a mare. 

 Our list for the season will furnish further par- 

 ticulars. 



PLATE II. 

 RANSOMES AND SIMS' PRIZE PLOUGH. 



This series of Ploughs have received the following 

 prizes from the Royal English and other Agri- 

 cultural Societies; 

 The prize of £10 and Silver Medal, as the best 



heavy land plough — also to the same plough, a 



prize of £10 and Silver Medal as the best hght 



land plough, at the Royal Agricultural Society's 



Meeting at Southampton. 

 Another prize of £10 at the Royal Agricultural 



Society's Meeting at Northampton. 

 The Council Medal of the Great Exhibition for 



this plough, as made by Busby. 



OLD SERIES.] 



The first prize at the meeting of the Royal Agri- 

 cultural Society at Lewes, 1852— at Lmcoln, 

 1854— and at the Carlisle Meeting, 1855— as the 

 best plough for general purposes. 



The divisional prize at the Bath and West of Eng- 

 land Meeting at Tiverton, 1855. 



The prize for deep ploughing at the Meetmg of the 

 Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ire- 

 land, at Carlow, in 1855. i i 

 The following is a description of the new plough 



as recently yet further perfected :— 



The handles are of suflScient length to give per- 

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