THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



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recent monthly meeting of the Central Farmers' Club, aud we 

 would ask no other evidence of the value of such discussional 

 meetings thau that which has been afforded by the London 

 Club during this and the preceding month. In this respect, 

 indeed, the club is unequalled. There is occasionally a valua- 

 ble paper brought forward at some of the council meetings of 

 the English Royal Society ; but as these are for the moat part 

 reserved until the publication of the Society's Journal, they 

 are a sealed book to most people. Professor Simonds' lecture 

 on " Rot in Sheep," which we recently transferred to our 

 columns, was an exception to this absurd rule; but it was 

 so only in consequence of the hard fight made by some 

 members to have it published at once, with a view to its 

 immediate dissemination through the country. Agaiu, 

 we sometimes get something very good from the reported 

 meetings of the Highland and Agricultural Society, although 

 not nearly so often as we once did, discussional meetings ap- 

 parently being held less frequently by that society ; whilst 

 our own Royal Agricultural Society i?, in this respect, truly 

 " the silent sister." Under such circumstances, we always 

 turn to the reports of the proceedings at the Central Club, as 

 these appear in our London coutemporaries, with pleasure, 

 satisfied that we shall always find in them something worthy 

 of attention. This is particularly true in the case of Mr. 

 Owen Wallis'a paper on " feeding stock on pasture-land in 

 spring, summer, aud autumn ;" aud as we are not desirous of 

 lessening its effect in any degree, even by epitomising it, we 

 give it in full. — Irish Farmers' Gazette, 



HEREFORDSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.— 

 The Committee of this Society met at the City Arms hotel, 

 for the purpose of passing the accounts of the past 

 year aud revising the list of premiums to be offered for the 

 ensuing show, when it appeared the funds still continue 

 iuadequate to the wants of the Society, aud from the 

 lamented death of one of its patrons, the Right Hon. Lord 

 Berwick, and several others of its members, it became obvious 

 that one of two things must be resorted to, viz., either to re- 

 strict the premiums, or devise some other means of increasing 

 the annual income. The former course was considered very 

 inadvisable, and it then became a question what was to be 

 done, when a suggestion made by Mr. Duckham was unani- 

 mously resolved, viz., to admit the public to what is termed a 

 private view, on payment of 23. 6d. each, during the day on 

 which the animals are being judged. It is confidently hoped 

 this arrangement will induce some of the fair sex to grace the 

 yard, as also many persons who have hitherto been unable to 

 attend, in consequence of the other numerous engagements 

 upou the show-day, which has of late years become a most im 

 portaut day of business, being, with the exception of the day 

 following, the largest fair day iu the year for the sale of cattle" 

 Here we may, perhaps, be allowed to remark, we almost 

 question whether in a few more years that will not be the 

 general fair day for horned stock, and the present fair day be- 

 come one for horses, sheep, and pigs only. With the omission 

 of clasa 12 — a premium of 51. for the best ox or steer qualified 



to exhibit at the Smithfield Club, and for which there was no 

 competitor last year— the premiums remain as they were. 

 After the business of the Society was ended, it was announced 

 that the committee appointed by the Royal Agricultural 

 Society of England to revise the district country meetings of 

 that Society had selected a district including this couuty for 

 their meeting in 1863, and that we were that day receiving 

 the valuable aid of Mr. C. Wren Hoskyns, one of the vice, 

 presidents of our Committee, at their Council Board in sup- 

 porting the selection. It was resolved that the meeting stand 

 adjourned, to receive that gentleman's report. — Hereford 

 Times. [It is understood that the selection for 1863 will rest 

 between Hereford and Worcester.— Edit, F. M.] 



"STANLEY ROSE." 

 (EnoM TUE "Irish Fakmeiis' Gazette.") 



Alas ! alas ! the woeful news, 



Poor Stanley Rose is dead : 

 Ab, woe betide that fatal walk 



She took through Holyhead. 

 From point of tail to lip of nose, 

 No fault liaJst thou, sweet Stanley Rose ! 



Slio left her stall at Branches Park, 



So lovely iiud so fut, 

 That each one vowed she'd lick the lot 



At t' show in land of Pat; 

 But wliat's to happen no one knows; 

 No more diilst thou, my Stanley Rose ! 



The railway truck got ofF the line, 



The road was very hard, 

 She had to walk, and sorrowful 



Was honest Johnny ^\'ard : 

 Those nasty flints, they pinched thy toes, 

 And shook thy frame, poor Stanley Rose ! 



In spite of all, her boauttous shapes 



Could easily be seen. 

 And placed her first, though 'gainst her was 



A " Duchess" and a '" Queen." 

 The worthiest prize the judges chose 

 To give to thee, sweet Stanley Rose ! 



But though well plied with corn aud cake, 



And sedulously tended, 

 Alas ! alas ! at Branches Park 



Her brilliant course was ended. 

 Alack-a-day ! no doctor's dose 

 Could save thy life, poor Stanley Rose ! 



Moral. 

 So if you've got a heifer prime, 



Now don't you go to spoil her 

 By feeding high, for if you do, 



She'll likely burst her boiler ; 

 And, after all, I do supjwse, 

 'Twas that which killed poor Stanley Rose ! 



