THE FAKMEE'S MAGAZINE. 



JUNE, 1859. 



PLATE I. 



THE STABLE YARD. 



Some two or three years since, in continuation of 

 our series of eminent agriculturists, we gave a por- 

 trait of Mr. James Allen Ransome, of the famous 

 firm of Ransomes and Sims, implement makers. 

 In concluding our sketch of his good sayings and 

 doings, we wrote thus : — " If we say more we shall 

 but make our hero mortal, and chronicle him, like 

 most of us, as not proof against some httle weak- 

 ness or other. That of Allen Ransome, if such it 

 be, is a national one— the love of a horse. The 

 neatest hack at the Suffolk shows is almost sure to 

 be 'Mr. Ransome's.' Himself a good horseman, 

 and a good judge, no wonder he confessed, in the 

 openness of his heart, as we once heard him, that 

 * much as he loved a steam engine, he loved a horse 

 still more !' " 



We have now followed him home to his own 

 stable yard, to see what he can show us in the way 

 of the animal he likes so well. Either of those in 



the print may be regarded as an especial favourite, 

 selected with much care for their several uses. The 

 dark chesnut white-legged weight-carrier is an 

 Irish mare, called Norah Creina, purchased of 

 that well-known dealer, Mr. Sam Quartermaine, 

 once of Oxford, and now of Piccadilly. The young 

 lady's pony. The Fawn, comes from an equally 

 good school, having for some time carried the 

 daughters of Mr. Anderson, also of Piccadilly, 

 There is something of a character at once implied 

 in such last places as these two clever hacks can 

 refer to, and both would appear alike worthy 

 of the recommendation. " For action, temper, 

 manners, and education," quaintly writes their 

 present possessor, " they approach more nearly to 

 perfection than is often found in horseflesh. 

 They are in every respect worthy of Corbet's 

 pencil, and certainly his painting is worthy of his 

 subject." 



THE QUEEN 



PLATE 11. 

 OF TRUMPS; A Shorthorn Heifer. 



THE property OF MR. JAMES DOUGLAS, OF ATHELSTANEFORD, N.B. 



The Queen of Trumps, a roan heifer, bred by 

 Mr. Douglas, and calved on April 27th, 1856, was 

 got by Captain Balco (12546), out of Queen of 

 Trumps, by Belleville (6778), her dam. Queen of 

 Trumps, by Captain Shaftoe (6833), — Old 

 Cherry, by Pirate (2430), — by Houghton (318), 

 — by Marshal Blucher (4.16), &c., &c. 



In 1857, when a yearling, the Queen of Trumps 

 was highly commended at the Salisbury Meeting 

 of the Royal Agricultural Society of England ; 

 Colonel Towneley's Rose of Towneley taking the 

 first prize, and Mr. Richard Booth's Queen Mab 

 the second. Colonel Towneley had two more hei- 

 fers also highly commended, and the whole of the 

 class, one of the strongest ever shown, was com- 

 mended. At the Northumberland Society's Show, 

 at Cornhill, Queen of Trumps took the first prize 



OLD SERIES.] 



as the best yearling heifer, beating, amongst others, 

 Mr. John Booth's Venus de Medicis, which Mr. 

 Douglas purchased there and then for three hun- 

 dred guineas. At the Glasgow Meeting of the High- 

 land Society, Queen of Trumps took the first prize 

 for yearling heifers ; and at Waterford, the Queen 

 and Venus again came together, when the Cornhill 

 judgment was confirmed, the roan being placed first, 

 and the white receiving a high commendation. 



In the spring, however, of the year following, at 

 the show of the Royal Dublin Society, they changed 

 places, Venus de Medicis taking the first prize, and 

 Queen of Trumps the second. At the Chester 

 Meeting of the Royal English Society, the Queen 

 " righted" again with the first prize, Venus being 

 highly commended, and Lady Buckingham, a 

 heifer, the property of the Honourable and Reverend 

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