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dered. She was bought from Mr. Harrison, of Greta 

 Bridge, as a six months' calf, along with a bull, for 

 120 gs., and is through Cotherstone (6903) and Nancy 

 of full Killerby blood on both sides. Her public life 

 has been latterly like Yellow Jack's and Hyllus's on the 

 turf, a series of splendid seconds. Jn 1857 she was 

 first, it is true, at Middlesboro' and Barnard Castle ; 

 but then came a H. C. at Salisbury, and a second to 

 Nectarine Blossom at Sunderland, and to Victoria at 

 York. Last year she and Mr. Douglas's Britannia 

 were always at cross purposes, and it is curious to note 

 their rise and fall in the judicial barometer. At Chester, 

 when Nectarine Blossom won, Moss Rose was highly 

 commended, and Britannia passed over ; and at Aber- 

 deen Britannia won, and Moss Rose was second. Nec- 

 tarine Blossom then reappeared on the scene, and 

 kept up her Chester charter at Northallerton, where 

 Moss Rose was second, and Britannia highly com- 

 mended. Her daughter Ayrshire Rose by Whittington, 

 who is in calf to Wisetonian, has so far run a successful 

 course among the white and green ribbons, as she has 

 been first at Barnard Castle and Grantham, and second 

 to the renowned Queen Mab at The Durham County. 

 Still, perhaps, the eye will insensibly rest upon the 

 youngest Stanley Rose, by Earl of Derby, as the 

 fairest of the lot, and the most likely to give Mr. Booth 

 and the rest of the short-horn trainers some trouble in 

 shows to come. Rose of Athelstane and Queen of the 

 Vale were buth before her at Northallerton ; but she 

 beat the latter in turn at Sunderland, and since then she 

 has gone on improving. Her thighs, twist, and shoulders 

 are especially fine, and we could have stood there much 

 longer, just for the sake of seeing her lift her gay little 

 head, and come marching straight towards us with that 

 massive Bride Elect bosom, as proudly as if the War- 

 wick wreath was already her own. 



When this celebrated trio had returned to " the place 

 from whence they came," Wisetonian, whose sire and 

 dam. Usurer (of whose character he has caught not a 

 little) and Sybil, both by Lord Warden, were sold at 

 Lord Spencer's sale — made his bow. He was followed by 

 Alderman, by Earl of Derby out of Cosy, who is very 

 first-rate in the union of the rib and loin, and has pecu- 

 liarly long hind quarters. Earl Derby's greatest son, 

 however, was still to come in Statesman (a delicate com- 

 pliment we presume to Lord Stanley), and in a minute 

 or two that curly white head, which first saw the light 

 on the 20th of November, 1855, was seen looming in 

 the distance. He is a very grand bull, whether you 

 Btand beside him and admire his true cylindrical shape 



and fine length of quarters, or measure him 26 laches 

 from the huggins, without any of that " nipping 

 'enw," which " Cuddy" so deprecates. As yet, he has 

 only earned two H.C.'s from the Royal Society in 1857- 

 58, when Bon Garfon and Fourth Duke of Oxford 

 won ; and the latter just beat him again at Northaller- 

 ton by his marvellous handling. Still he was first last 

 year, not only at Sunderland, Grantham, and Guis- 

 borough, but ousted Heir-at-Law at Aberdeen, afccr the 

 latter had beaten all Ireland to smithereens at London- 

 derry. His brother Lord Scarborough followed ; but 

 although he has rare quality, and an exceedingly good 

 head and back, his shoulder-points are not quite so 

 correct as they ought to be, and hardly close enough to 

 the neck vein. The white General Havelock by Whit- 

 tington is rather a good thick-fleshed, than an elegant 

 show bull ; but he bore his part with Venus, Alderman, 

 Ayrshire Rose, and Stanley Rose, in sweeping off every 

 shilling on the shorthorn prize-board at Barnard Castle, 

 last autumn. 



Anon we adjourned to a range of boxes behind, from 

 which Venus, by Whittington, and a winner at Guis- 

 borough, was first ordered out, and certainly she is as 

 sweet as her name, which she bids fair to perpetuate in 

 her calf. Governess, by Archy Moore ; whom we had 

 seen along with the white Bell Flower, by Statesman, 

 in the first yard. Governess is the only calf that 

 Archy Moore ever got for Mr. Wetherell, as he was 

 very early sold to go to Australia. He was a son of 

 Field Marshal (12875), whose daughters — Crocus, 

 Countess, Cobweb, and Cowslip, all of them roans, and 

 Crocus, perhaps, most to our mind — were housed in 

 pairs hard by. Wall Flower also struck us as a very 

 good cow, soft and of remarkably fine quality. She is 

 the dam of Bell Flower and Water Witch, who 

 departed to Bushey Grove, as a six months' calf, for 

 50 gs. Lady Stanley and Miss Lumley were the last 

 brought out for view, both of them with a strong dash 

 of the Cotherstone blood in their pedigree, through his 

 son Crusade, whose winning powers were well known, 

 not only in the Highland and Yorkshire Societies. 

 The former was, perhaps, rather the compacter built, 

 and the latter, better in the hair ; but grand as the herd 

 was, it was difficult to get up one's enthusiasm beyond 

 zero on so bitter a day, and we gladly turned our back 

 on the High Grange, and its high-bred tenants, with the 

 hope to meet them again under a milder climate, and 

 amid biddings fast and furious on the coming nineteenth 

 of April. f) 



THE COMPOSITION OF L 



BY rUTItDZllT W. JjilXSON, 



QU 



ESQ., 



D MANURE. 



The opinions of the English farmers as to the 

 composition and use of liquid manure are com- 

 monly much too unsatisfactory. This want of ac- 

 curate information, as might be expected, has often 



caused considerable disappointment atid waste of 

 capital, and thus the returns from the use of liquid 

 manure have seldom sufficiently rewarded the owner 

 for his outlay. The researches, therefore, of Pro- 



