No. 8. 



" Jersey Independence.''^ — ** Little Delaware." 



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" JERSEY INDEPENDENCE." 



The property of the breeder and feeder, Edward Tonkin, Esq., Clarkeshoro" , N. J. 



The above is a splendid portrait of one of the maornificent herd of fat cattle, bred and fed 

 by that spirited improver, Mr. Edward Tonkin, drawn from the life by Woodside, and 

 engraved by T. H. Mumford. There are six others in the group — five oxen and a spayed 

 heifer — which are in no way inferior to the individual that has furnished so fair an opportu- 

 nity to draw forth the powers of the pencil and the graver; all which it is intended shall lend 

 their aid to embellish the pages of the " Farmers' Cabinet" in future numbers. Our next 

 will contain the portrait of" Washington," which will be accompanied by a full account of 

 their "birth, parentage and education," &c., and much that will be interesting to the agri- 

 culturist generally, and to the breeder of fine stock in particular. 



"LITTLE DELAWARE." 



Major Philip Reybold's annual exhibition and sale of fat sheep took place in Philadel- 

 phia on the second day of March. It consisted of twenty-one two years' old loethers, of the 

 pure Leicester or Bakewell breed, raised by himself, and fed by his son, Mr. Clayton Rey- 

 bold, who has the immediate charge of the Major's flocks, which now number upwards of 

 1000, pure and half-bloods, of remarkable size and perfection of symmetry. We obtained 

 portraits of two of these splendid specimens of nature and art, which have been named 

 " Major" and " Clayton," after the judicious breeder and feeder. These are designed for 

 publication in our future pages; but even the talents of our friends, the artists, have not been 

 more than equal to the task of doing justice to their fine proportions. The publication of 

 these portraits will be accompanied with interesting particulars relating to their " breed and 

 feed," and in the meantime we give below the live and dead weights of these animals, as 

 rendered by the Major and the spirited purchasers, Messrs. Schneck and Brothers, exchi- 

 eively for our work. They were slaughtered on the 3d of March, and were exposed for 

 sale at the stalls Nos. 24 and 26 in Second St. Market, between Pine and Lombard, Phila- 

 delphia. " Major," live weight 2-51 pounds — dead weight, the four quarters, 147 pounds, 

 " Clayton," live weight 227 pounds — dead weight IJ^O pounds — cutting 4| inches thick on 

 the rib. A specimen of the mutton is deposited at the office of the Cabinet lor the inspection 

 of our friends. 



