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CATTLE AND DAIRY FARMING. 



Queen, took second premium at a recent exhibition, and a bull third. No 

 exhibition is too insignificant and unimportant in Belgium for the King 

 and Queen of the Belgians to open in person and inspect personally each 

 article and to encourage it -by being an exhibitor of the product. This, 

 it seems to me, is setting an excellent example to our governors and 

 others at home who hold as high positions in public esteem and are 

 looked to as much for examples. Bufc, alas, politics is the all-engrossing 

 topic with most of our governors and legislators, and anything that is 

 outside of this is insipid to them 5 and, therefore, it is for the people, 

 after all, to correct by politics the evils of politics, arid to elect, and re- 

 tain as long as possible when elected, men who will look to their inter- 

 ests and try, by wise legislation, to advance them. 



I have abstained as much as possible, in this dispatch, from theorizing. 

 I have advanced in its stead such methods as have accomplished the 

 results we are in search of abroad. Example is worth more than pre- 

 cept; we have the example, and all that remains for us to do is to follow 

 it, to achieve like results. By adopting these simple methods, within 

 twenty years it would appear as absurd to us that we ever sent abroad 

 for a bull, cow, sheep, dog, or hog as it does now that we imported the 

 English sparrow. 



GEORGE 0. TANNER, 



Consul. 



Agricultural shows held in England durmy the year 1883, exclusive of special society shows 

 such as Shorthorn. Jersey, Cart-horse, <$-c. t shows. 



