THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



451 



AN ACCOUNT showing, in Imperial Quarters, the Quantities of Wheat and Wheat Flouk, Barley and 

 Barley Meal, Oats and Oatmeal, Rye and Rye Meal, Peas and Peas Meal, Beans and Bean 

 Meal, and of Indian Corn and Meal, entered for Consumption in the United Kingdom during each of 

 the Six Years ending with 1858. 



Wheat and Wlieat Flour 



Barley and Barley Meal 



Oats and Oatmeal 



Rye anil Rye Meal 



Peas au J Pea Meal 



Beans and Beau Meal 



Indian Corn and Meal 



Other kinds (consisting of Bu;k 

 Wheat, Buck Wheat Meal, and 

 Bere or Bigg) 



Aggregate Consumption ., 



Note. — The quantities of imported corn aud meal retained for consumption in the United Kingdom, as exhibited above, 

 are ascertained by deluding' th;; qusntities over-eutered, aad the quantities exported after payment of duty, (roiu the gross 

 quantities charged with duty on importation. 



Office of the luspector-General of Imports and Exports, Custom Houae, Loudon, 



28th February, 1859. John A. Messenger. 



SALE OF MR. WETHERELL'S HERD. 



That love of Shorthorns, which Durham so bravely 

 fostered when the century was youner, received ample 

 illustration in the sale of this celebrated herd on Tueday, 

 April 10. It was quite to be expected that the skill and 

 science of its owner would be fully acknowledged by a high 

 average, and prophecy certainly had its fulfilment. Mr. 

 John Wetherell, of Richmond, officiated, and did the most 

 ample justice to the stock ; though, after all, there was 

 not throughout the day any really " slashing rally." The 

 bidding wa.s, in fact, rather steady than spirited. The 

 great Cobham sale had enabled many of the Shorthorn 

 breeders to stop the gaps which the autumn had made 

 in their ranks ; but still, not a few cast a longing eye 

 towards some of the Aldborough plums, and the fact 

 of the average being within two or three sliillings of 

 £73 for 48 lots proved that they quitted themselves like 

 men when they did set foot on Durham soil. Combiniiig 

 the calf of Young Magic Flower and her dam in one lot, 

 there were 35 female lots, which averaged ^£"77 15s., 

 while the 13 bulls reached ^60 4s. It was pretty evi- 

 dent, soon after the leading Shorthoin men assembled at 

 head-quarters at Darlington (where they were wel- 

 comed by Mr. Wetherell with a most sumptuous enter- 

 tainment, at the King's IleaJ) that it was not to be 

 Statesman's day. Reports had been spread that training 

 for shows last year had militated very severely against 

 his efficiency, and this, added to the fact of there being 

 only one thing (Bell Flower) by him, on the list, made 

 many doubt whether he would even touch seventy. So 

 much, in fact, had been said out of doors, that Mr. 

 Wetherell felt it his imperative duty to rise in bis car- 

 riage on the left of the auctioneer's waggon, and assure 

 the company that the reports were devoid of all truth ; 

 and that the fact of so few cows having been served by 

 him, arose from his having left home for the Chester 

 Show, and not returning again till after the Aberdeen 

 one. 



Although a few snow- fl ikes fell at last, the day was 

 most lovely, and at an early hour nearly every convey- 

 ance in Darlington was chartered for the scene of action, 

 which lies about nine miles from that town, aud is 

 reached by a very delightful ride through Melsonby. 



The Shorthorn men " stole away " very early for a peep 

 at the lots ; and when we arrived there about eleven 

 o'clock, we found the boxes and beautiful meadow below 

 the High Grange one busy herd-mart. A large blue 

 bullock van, inscribed " The Cumberland Ox," 

 was for the nonce turned into a counting-liouse, and 

 thero the cheque and catalogue business of the sale was 

 transacted. Farmers and holiday folk had kept gra- 

 dually pouring in, and the meadow with its staked ring 

 and waggons, and the gaudy stiiped Durham horticul- 

 tural tent, over which the union-jack waved, knt to 

 the whole the air of a great village festival. One cele- 

 brated turfite was so struck with the tout ensemble, 

 that in the fulness of his heart he confided to us that 

 it looked like the Derby Day, and that he felt quite odd 

 at not having "to make up a book" on the coming 

 events. 



On the whole we should guess the assembly at about 

 a thousand. Among them were Lord Bolton, Sir Max- 

 well Wallac'\ and tha Hon. W. Duncombe ; and we 

 also observed Colonels Heiley and Gandy, and Messrs. 

 Jaques, Neasham, Gilpin, Cradock, R. IJooth, Swan, 

 Douglas, Torr, Doig, C. Spenct-r, Drewry, Sanday, 

 Aylmer, Neilson, J. Booth, T. Booth, Atkinson, 

 Knowles, Gambell, Culshaw, H. Smith, Thompson, Carr, 

 Mitchell, Pole, Barclay, Wilson, Thompson, James, Jack- 

 son, and several others. The most interesting feature, 

 after all, of the attendance, was that of the octogenarians 

 Messrs. Wiley and Charge, both of whom were pur- 

 chasers at the Ketton sale, nine-and-forty years before. 

 They thus furnished two remarkable living links with 

 the past, as one was the fourth-part purchaser of the 

 thousand-guinea Comet; and theolher, if wc remember 

 rightly, took Midas home. Age has told its t:ile on 

 the former ; but the latter stood by the side of the ring 

 for four hours, with all the energy and spirit of a boy. 



About an hour before the sale, people began to find 

 out what the long oval staked ring on the bill-side 

 meant, as the whole eight-and-fofty lots were seen, each 

 with an attendant, winding their way in Indian file out 

 of the farm-stead. Mr. Wet', erell, on his pony, acted 

 as field-marshal : and in a few minutes they were all 



