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green heads, were besporting, with countless water hen8. 

 There was also quite a cloud of grey Dorkings feeding 

 in the yard, with a long Aylesby pedigree, and fading 

 into an ancient Captain Barclay vista, forty years beyond 

 that. The fold yards here had a full Vanguard comple- 

 ment of something like forty animals. Among the first 

 ten. Genuine Gem might well inherit his somewhat Roman 

 head and rich roan colour, as she is by him out of his 

 dau2;hter Glisten. Fair Fame 1st, by Vanguard, dam 

 by Usurer (a great granddaughter of Fame, own sister 

 to Booth's Faith), was also there ; along with the elegant 

 Warrior's Bride by Bridesman, another valuable testi- 

 mony to the truth of the second cross of Booth upon 

 Bates. The dozen in the next yard were all Vanguards 

 except Fawsley Garland I (an own sister to Chrysalis 

 and Glass Slipper), who shows all that elegance of fore- 

 quarter on which Sir Charles Knightley laid such stress. 

 Here, too, were Fair Fame II., Bright Comet, and 

 Flower Nymph, the latter one of the especial plums. 

 Grey Friar, who came to Aylesby, as a loan from Mr. 

 Wiley, was well represented among the dozen in the 

 third yard by Grey Dawn (who won the second year- 

 ling prize ribbons last summer at Grantham), and 

 also by Matin Bell, who has a strong ring of the 

 Leonard metal in her. Fawsley 's Garland II. is a very 

 fine heifer, but unfortunately follows her dam in colour. 

 Already the old cow has bred four heifers at Aylesby ; 

 and her daughter Chrysalis, for whom Mr. Sanday gave 

 150 gs,, has added two bulls and a heifer to the Holme 

 Pierrepont herd, so that the impromptu partner- 

 ship which that gentleman formed with Mr. Torr at 

 Fawsley has proved most satisfactory to both. As a 

 farewell to the young stock, we took some observations 

 on Glittering Star, who may hereafter shine to some 

 purpose in a national show-yard, if Mr. Torr for once 

 waives his dislike to that force-meat principle, which is 

 now the only key to such honours. 



A short ride across Irby Dales, and a series of highly 

 cultivated fields, brought us to the Riby Wold Farm, 

 which has been held by the family, under Mr. Tomline 

 and his ancestors, for nearly a century and a half. Its 

 yards are principally appropriated to the steers and gelt 

 cows, the majority of which are bound in due season 



to the marshes on the Humber side ; and it was from 

 here, some fifty years since, that Mr. Torr's grand- 

 father, who was one of the very first to use oil-cake in 

 Lincolnshire, sold two score stall-fed bullocks for £'40 

 a-piece. The Riby home farm, which is also tenanted by 

 several very promising Vanguards and Hopewells, lies a 

 little lower down on the opposite side of the road to the 

 church, and within a bow-shot of the squire's. 

 Aylesby Rose, by Leonidas, with her hip down, and a 

 wonderfully coated calf, Aylesby Ball (by Golden Ball, 

 a son of Vanguard's), at her side, is here to remind us 

 of Aylesby Lady, who was sold for 200 gs. to the Ohio 

 Company ; and it would have been strange to have 

 spared no glance for a roan heifer calf, Wave Hope, by 

 Hopewell, out of Water Queen, who is nearly as good 

 as she can be, and instance No. 3 of the efficacy of the 

 double cross of Booth on Bates. Grey Friar's stall 

 knew him no more. He had risen to the full-blown 

 dignity of one hundred stone, and as digestion was not 

 a vital object to the captains or crews of two Norway 

 sloops, who put in at Great Grimsby on their way to 

 Greenland, they took him at six shillings per 141bs.,and 

 divided him limb for limb. Government contractors for 

 " prime mess beef" would have burned with jealousy if 

 they had seen those massive duplicates in process of 

 shipping ; and in fact, we hardly dare to further inflame 

 their minds by the recital of the end of Benedict, an own 

 brother to Bloom and Plum Blossom, whom we were just 

 in time to see in the flesh. He was originally sold to 

 Mr. Bolden, in whose hands he hardly got anything but 

 bull calves, and then he went, we believe, the round of 

 some small Cumberland herds, and was eventually . 

 chopped away to Mr. Torr by Mr. Unthank for Free 

 Mason. To counterbalance a poorish chine, he had 

 rare hind quarters and fine quality, but there will never 

 be a calf by him at his last abode. Before he came 

 here, he had passed fourteen years of a Benedictine, but 

 not an unfruitful, existence, and the epitaph of this 

 nearly eldest son of Buckingham fell rather quaintly on 

 his owner's ear last month, from the lips of the Aylesby 

 herdsman, as he dwelt in memory on the staple of a 

 succession of dinners — ** Uncommon tough, sir; but 

 varra sweet." 



MEAT AND MILK 



There are fevir farmers to whom the comparative 

 profit of the churn and the stall are not objects of 

 the greatest interest. In this, as in other branches 

 of agriculture, practical and scientific researches 

 have recently yielded considerable general benefit. 

 It is true that we often find, after these beneficial 

 discoveries are publicly announced, that some 

 farmers, in remote places, and perhaps without any 

 communication with each other, have been long 

 employing, with profit, the same modes that cost 

 more recent authors long labour to discover. But 



CUTHBERT W. JOHNSOK, ESQ., F.ll.S. 



then this should not detract from the merit of those 

 who have not only made improvements, but have 

 had the good sense to report, for the benefit of the 

 community, the fruit of their valuable labours. 



It is both amusing and instructive to observe the 

 slow progress our ancestors made in inquiries such 

 as those which are the subject of this paper. Their 

 ideas of a good cow, for instance, were of the most 

 primitive kind. Even Worhdge, who wrote his 

 " Mystery of Agriculture " in 1669, could find 

 nothing more useful to remark of the cow than. 



