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off the first prize of £15 as the best heifer not 

 exceeding four years old, with of course the usual 

 silver medal as an especial compliment to her 

 breeder; but she was one of the reserved Graces 

 over whom the judges long deliberated, like Paris 

 of old, as to the award of the Golden Apple or 

 Medal. It ultimately went against the Devonshire 

 Damsel in favour of Mr. Hill's Hereford ; but Mr. 

 Mogridge was well pleased to know she stood even 

 as high as this — a good second in a great show. 

 He sold the heifer as she stood to Mr. Newton, of 

 Tiverton. There was not an animal in the bazaar 

 showed higher breeding, while her form was re- 

 markably compact, her back surprisingly level, and 

 her touch firm and mellow. As an illustration of 

 the " little and good" there have been few better 

 than Damsel. 



Mr. Mogridge attributes his success as a Devon 

 breeder to the opportunities which he and his fore= 



fathers have had for nearly the last hundred years, 

 of using the Quartly bulls. But, as he says of 

 himself, " I was kept close to the plough when 

 young, and I fear the young farmers that aie now 

 growing up are not taught habits of industry so as 

 to judge what should be given for a fair day's work, 

 or to decide what should be given fo work gene- 

 rally on the farm. If the members of the Farmers' 

 Club would teach their sons manual labour (a little 

 of it) ii^?,';°ad of cultivating hair and smoking to- 

 bacco/ Tthink they would soon discover which was 

 the most profitable piece work." 



Mr. Mogridge should have sent his notions to 

 Mr. Charles Howard a month or two back; or 

 better still, have come up and expounded them 

 himself. What is the relative cost and labour of 

 growing a moustache, and spreading an acre of 

 home-made manure ? 



PLATE II. 

 PRIZE PIGS, 



THE PROPERTY OF MR. GEORGE MANGLES, OP GIVENDALE, RIPON, YORKSHIRE. 



This boar and sow, both of the improved Cum- 

 berland and Yorkshire small breed, have won 

 prizes at the meetings of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society of England, the Highland Society of 

 Scotland, and various other agricultural shows. 



The boar " Brutus" was by the Squire, dam 

 Miss Thornby, by Wellington, grandam Beauty, 

 by Young Thormanby, great grandam by Wen- 

 lock, gr. gr. g. dam by Parker's prize boar, gr. 

 gr. gr. g. dam by Bobby Shafto, gr. gr. gr. gr. g. 

 dam by Old Dumfries. 



The Squire was by Wonder, dam by Liberator, 

 grandam by Peregrine Pickle, gr. g. dam by a boar 

 of Lord Wenlock's. Wonder was by Castle Howard, 

 and Castle Howard was by Sir George, dam by 

 Nonpareil, grandam Countess, bred by Mr. Wiley. 

 Liberator was by Gloucester, dam Beauty, by Lord 

 Radnor's boar, grandam Julia Bennet, by Lord 

 Galloway's boar, gr. g. dam by Mr. Hercy Croft's 

 boar. Peregrine Pickle, by Young Thormanby. 

 Young Thormanby was by Mr. Scott's boar, dam 

 by Nutt's boar Samuel, g. d. by Dreadnought. 



The sow " Blackeyed Susan" was by The Squire, 

 out of Miss Brown 2nd, by Guy Fawkes, out of Miss 

 Brown — Miss Brown out of Lady Wenlock, by Lord 

 Wenlock,dam by Young Thormanby, grandam own 

 sister to Wenlock, gr. g. dam bred by Mr. Hig- 

 ginson. Guy Fawkes, bred by Mr. Fawkes, was 

 got by a boar of Mr. Eddison, of Leeds. Lord 

 Wenlock obtained the first prize in 1850, at the 

 Highland Society's Show, held at Glasgow ; as 

 well as at the Cumberland and Westmoreland 

 Show at Carlisle ; at Whitehaven and Cocker- 

 mouth, with many other premiums at local shows, 

 when a pig, in 1849. Thormanby obtained prizes 

 in 1848, at the Highland Society at Edinburgh, 

 at Cockerraouth, and East Cumberland; in 1849 

 at the Royal Agricultural Society of England; at 



Norwich; at Northumberland; at Cockermouth and 

 Carlisle, having never been beaten. Wenlock 

 gained the fii'st prizes in 1846, from the Royal Agri- 

 cultural Society of England, at Newcastle ; a first 

 at Wakefield, and another at Liverpool. Lady 

 Wenlock gained the following first prizes in 1860, 

 at the Highland Show, at Glasgow ; at the Cum- 

 berland and Westmoreland Show, at Carlisle ; as 

 well as at the Cockermouth, and at Whitehaven. 



" Brutus" was not only successful at Canter- 

 bury, but also took a first prize of the Highland 

 Society, at Dumfries ; a first and silver medal, as 

 the best pig in the yard, at Keighley ; a first at the 

 Halifax and Calder Vale Association ; a first at the 

 Durham County Show; and a first at the Wetherby, 

 at the Ripley, and at the Cleveland Agricultural 

 Meetings. 



" Black-eyed Susan" was successful at Canter- 

 bury, and also gained a first prize of the Highland 

 Society at Edinburgh; a first at the Durham 

 County show ; first at the Cleveland Show, and 

 finished off by taking a prize at the Birmingham 

 Fat Show, where she was sold for twenty pounds 

 as a fat pig. She measured seventy inches in 

 girth and eighty in length, from between the ears 

 to the setting on of the tail. The late show of single 

 fat pigs at Birmingham was an imusually good 

 class. 



From the pedigree of Brutus it will be seen, that 

 the Givendale breed of pigs has mixed up with it 

 blood from the most noted breeders in England. 

 If with shorthorns and horses so much value and 

 stress is put upon pedigree, why should not a 

 little value also be set upon the pedigree of that so 

 long neglected animal the pig ? 



Since 1853 Mr. George Mangles has taken with 

 the York — Cumberlands sixty-eight prizes and 

 fifty-six commendations, including— at the Royal 



