NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



SHORT HORN DURHAM HEIFER. 



This cngra^-ing represents the prize heifer exhibited 

 at the Christmas Club Show, at Smithficld Market, 

 London, in December, 1843. This annual show is 

 much the largest and best of fat cattle in the United 

 Ivingdom. To this heifer were awarded all the first 

 prizes of that show : — £20, as the best cow of her 

 class ; the gold medal, as the best fat beast at the 

 show ; and a silver medal, to her breeder, &c.. Sir C. 

 R. Tempest. 



This heifer was four years and nine months old. 

 Iler dead weight was one thousand seven hundi-cd 

 and seventj' pounds. She produced two hundred 

 and twenty-eight pounds of loose fat, which is in- 

 cluded in her dead weight. Our engraving has been 

 made by Brown, from a draM-ing taken from a cast 

 which may be seen in our office — a fac simile of the 

 original. ^ 



THE WORLD'S FAIR. 



Among the great schemes that have resulted from 

 steam navigation and travelling, is that grand j^lan for 

 a monster exhibition, or the World's Fair, to be held 

 in London in ISol. A. few years ago, such a proposi- 

 tion would have been ridiculed as the height of folly, 

 and an attempt woiild have resulted in a splendid fail- 

 ure. But now such are the advantages for rapj«Z trav- 

 elling by steam, that a person in the interior of tJiis 

 great country can go to its shores, and then cro*^ the 

 vast ocean of several thousands of miles i-i extent, 

 and appear at the place of that great e-'chibition in 

 the short space of two or three weck» ; and on this 

 rapidity of travelling is founded t?ie fair prospect of 

 80 magnificent a scheme as the world's exhibition. 



All nations are invited to bring to this show the 

 products of their industry, taste, and ingenuity, from 



the raw material and the rudest, coarsest fabric, to the 

 finest and most delicate specimen of fine taste and 

 skill ; from the simplest and smallest productions of 

 art, to the most gigantic and complicated machinery. 



Prince Albert has consented to take the presidency 

 of this great enterprise. It is proposed to erect a 

 fabric for the purpose, one mile in extent. The sura 

 necessary to be raised is estimated at half a million 

 of dollars. Prizes from five hundred pounds do\vn 

 to twenty pounds will be awarded. 



At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the 

 N. Y. S. A. Society, tiie Secretary read the following 

 extract from a letter from James Cowdcn, Esq., Amer- 

 ican Consul at Glasgow : — " Since my letter to you 

 of the 19th Oct., Prince Albert has come out with a 

 proposition (imdcr the patronage of the Queen) for a 

 great fair or exhibition of the ' Industry of all Na- 

 tions^ to be held in London in the summer of 1851, 

 to which T beg to draw your attention. It will be 

 found in the Glasgow Chronicle, which I forward yoii. 

 I am quite sure there is no nation on the face of the 

 globe that (jan outdo the Americans in any thing 

 they undertake. Sufficient time is allowed ere the 

 proposed exhibition is to come oif, to enable our 

 ingenious mechanics to bring forth something worthy 

 of our noble and beloved country, and secure to 

 themselves a handsome reward, if successful com- 

 petitors ; as the prizes arc to be one money prize, 

 £2000 sterling, equal to near $10,000 ; and four £1000 

 prizes sterling, equal to lf;5000 each. If this be mado 

 generally known, (and no institution can so effectu- 

 ally do it as that with which you arc connected,) I 

 cannot doubt the United States will exhibit some of 

 its exquisite Yankee notions, Avhich will prove useful 

 and ornamental at the ' Great Fair of all Nations.' " 



