No. 5. 



A Dog ShoiD. 



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tlie average £12 per annum, for farm serv- 

 ants, or £20 per annum, for mechanics. In 

 addition, board, washing-, and lodging, if 

 single — and use of cottage and garden, and 

 one quart of milk per day, and board them- 

 selves, if married. I wish no better men 

 than I obtain at these prices." 



Barns. — The main barn is 120 feet long 

 and 42 wide. In the basement or cellar — 

 thougli mostly above ground — are horse 

 stables, ox-house, threshing mill, cider press, 

 hay press, and vegetable cellars, which are 

 filled by rising hatches in the floor above. 

 There are also two wings, 80 feet each, one 

 of Vi'hich is a cow house and a wood house 

 in the basement or cellar — the other a pig- 

 ger}', and over it a carriage house, work- 

 shop, hen-house, &c. The barn is devoted to 

 hay and straw, and all the cattle are fed, by 

 putting hay down in the racks. The cattle 

 are tied by chains. The floor of the cow 

 house, ox house and stables, is of paved 

 stone, and gutters cut from stone, lead to 

 the cistern. The entire barn, stables, cis- 

 tern, &c., were erected at an expense of 

 82,000. The basement is constructed en- 

 tirely of stone. Split stone is used for door 

 posts, supports in cellar, &.c. The roofs are 

 covered with tin, which Mr. Poore says 

 costs in the first instance, one-third more 

 than good shingles ; but it has been on 

 eleven years, and shows no signs of rust or 

 decay. 



The cow-yard, or barn-yard, is filled with 

 mud, earth, leaves, &c., in the fall, which are 

 put into heaps in spring, when the yard is 

 again filled — the droppings of the cows and 

 manure from the stables in summer, is daily 

 put in with the hogs under cover, and re- 

 moved to the compost heap every conveni- 

 ent opportunity, when properly worked. — 

 Cultivator. 



A Dog ShoAV. 



From the " Philosophy of London Life," 

 contributed to Bently's Miscellany, we copy 

 the following account of a singular exhibi- 

 tion: "A friend of ours is a dog fancier, and 

 we accompanied him to — of all things in 

 the world — a dog show. We have heard of 

 agricultural shows, horticultural shows, tulip 

 shows, dahlia shows, and fifty otlier shows, 

 but we never dreamt of a dog show. How 

 ever, there it was on a printed paper, pulled 

 by our friend out of his waistcoat pocket, in 

 black and white, with a long list of presi- 

 dents, vice-presidents, secretaries, treasurer, 

 conmiittee men, judges, conditions, prizes, 

 &-C. On entering the show room, whose 

 proximity was audibly made known to us 

 by the reiterated barking of the competitors. 



and the howling which followed the applica- 

 tion of the whips of their owners, we could 

 hardly avoid laugiiing, not less at the as- 

 sembled bipeds who filled the room to a 

 crowd, than at their quadrupedal friends 

 upon the table. One old gentleman, with a 

 white waistcoat and black silk smalls, re- 

 lieved by a huge bunch of gold seals depend- 

 ing from the most prominent part of his per- 

 son, held a pug under each arm, whilst he 

 criticised the points of a remarkably beau- 

 tiful little terrier then upon the table. A 

 tall thin, sickly-looking man, who, as I was 

 informed, was a peer of the realm, was bu- 

 sily engaged in discussing the comparative 

 beauties of a black and tan, and a red and 

 white spaniel of the King Charles' breed, 

 who to do them no less than justice, ap- 

 peared to enter completely into the spirit of 

 the thing, and growled, and barked, and 

 flashed fire at each other from their large, 

 round, antelope eyes, with all the apparent 

 jealousy of two contending beauties at an 

 assize ball. Running about our feet were 

 all sorts and sizes of the canine race; blood- 

 hounds, Irish, grey-hounds, terriers, wiry and 

 short-haired, silky-legged spaniels, but not a 

 cur of low degree; all had their pedigrees, 

 and well attested certificates approved their 

 honourable birth. 



Notwithstanding the ludicrous nature — to 

 us, at least — of the exhibition, not a muscle, 

 either of the dogs or their generous protect- 

 ors, was discomposed ! all was conducted in 

 a business-like English manner, with true 

 John Bullish gravity and decorum; nor, 

 when a very fat man, with a red carbuncled 

 nose, discovering a quart pot, which he had 

 hitherto concealed with a silk handkerchief, 

 placed on the table, with a little stunted dog 

 peering out, was there a single countenance 

 in the room irresistibly disposed to laughter, 

 save (jur own. The little stunted dog him- 

 self,, to all appearance a puppy of three 

 weeks old, but w^ho was, in fact, arrived at 

 the respectable age of two years, having re- 

 covered his liberty, scrambled over the edge 

 of the quart pot^ and with great gravity 

 waddled round the table, paying his respects 

 as* he went to other little stunted dogs, who, 

 however, not being quite so stunted as him- 

 self, appeared to regard him with no great 

 cordiality. — Temperance Advocate. 



Sore Backs or Galls on Horses. — Rub 



white lead in sweet oil until a good paint is 

 made, and apply a coatmg of this to the in- 

 jured pl-!ce. -Milk will do where no oil is 

 to be had. It is one of the most effective 

 applications. Some for the same difficulty 

 use a solution of vitriol in water; but in 

 most cases, the white lead is preferred. 



