No. 9. 



JK'ew Oxfordshire Buck. 



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NEW OXFORDSHIRE BUCK, 

 Twenty-three months oil, — Live weight, 320 lbs. 



To the Editor of the Fanners' Cabinet: 



Sir, — This splendid animal, the property of 

 Clayton Reybold, Esq., son and snccessor to 

 Major Philip Reybold, of Delaware, selected 

 by him in England, and imported without 

 refjard to expense, is a fine specimen of a 

 breed that now carries the highest premiums 

 for long woolled sheep at the meetings of 

 the Royal Agricultural Society of England. 

 The breeder of the subject of our engraving 

 having won the following prizes at their late 

 exhibitions, defying all competition, viz: 



At Oxford, £30 for the best Buck of any 

 age; £30 for the best shearling Buck; and 

 £10 for the best pen of Theaves, in the long 

 woolled class of sheep, not Leicesters. 



At Cambridge, £30 for the best Buck of 

 any age; £30 for the best shearling Buck; 

 and a bounty of £5 for a fat Ewe, shown as 

 extra stock. 



At Liverpool, £30 for the best shearling 

 Buck ; and $15 for the best pair of Ewes 

 and Lambs. 



At Bristol, £L5, being the second prize 

 for the best Buck of any ag-e ; £30 for the 

 best shearlmg Buck; £L5 for the second 

 best shearling Buck; and £5, the second 

 prize, for Theaves. 



At Derby, £10 for the five best Theaves. 



At Southampton, £30 for the best shear- 

 ling Buck, — the sire of the subject of our 



engraving — £1.5 for the second best Buck; 

 and £10 tor a fat Ewe. 



At the Smithfield Club Cattle Shows, for 

 three years, the silver medal for the best 

 sheep in extra stock, besides numerous 

 prizes in the counties of Oxfordshire, Glou- 

 cestershire and Berkshire. 



We call attention to the finely engraved 

 portrait above, by Mumford, of "The New 

 Oxfordshire Buck," lately imported by Ma- 

 jor Philip Reybold, of Delaware, whose life 

 has been spent in the accomplishment of 

 good undertakings — witness his peach or- 

 chards of more than 1000 acres, with a 

 daily sale of 5000 bas^kets of that delicious 

 fruit; his fine flock of pure Leicesters, 

 numbering many hundreds of the choicest 

 animals; and the feeding of sheep of 147 

 lbs. dead weight, cutting five inches thick 

 of fat on the rib ! But not content with a 

 flock that he had brought by judicious man- 

 agement to such she and perfection, he 

 conceived the idea, that by importation, he 

 might be able to add still more to the weight 

 of his already unrivalled stock. According- 

 ly, Mr. Clayton Reybold proceeded to Eng- 

 land the last summer, and after examining 

 many of the finest flocks in that country, 

 selected two Bucks of the New Oxfordshire 

 breed, and eight of the purest New Leiccs- 



