REARING AND FEEDING OF ANIMALS. 



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The Duke of Gloucester and the Earl of Jersey, two noble 

 animals of the short-horned Durham, crossed with the native 

 American breed, were raised by that judicious breeder of good 

 stock, Mr. EDWARD TONKIN, of Woodbury, Gloucester coun- 

 ty, New Jersey. When a little over seven years old they 

 were sold for three thousand five hundred dollars. At the 

 time of sale their weight was as follows: Earl of Jersey, 

 three thousand and forty pounds Duke of Gloucester, three 

 thousand and forty-two pounds. The portraits of these 

 animals here given are correct and striking, as they ap- 

 peared in December, 1837. They have been exhibited in 

 various parts of the Union,* and in July, 1839, notwithstand- 

 ing the fatigue of travel, they were estimated by very compe- 

 tent judges to weigh four thousand pounds e^ch. 



DKVON BULL. 



The DEVON or MIDDLE-HORNS, forms a beautiful and peculiar 

 variety they are of a family widely extended, as cattle pos- 

 sessing very similar properties are found not only in England, 

 but in America, on the banks of the Don, along the borders of 

 the Vistula, the confines of Poland and many other places. The 

 true Devon, however, is found in the state of greatest purity 

 in Devonshire, and the adjacent counties, in England, and in 

 those sections of the United States whence they have been 

 imported from Devonshire. More allied to the lighter breeds 



* The names given these noble animals by Mr. TONKIN, were certainly 

 most appropriate; but the purchasers saw fit to change them. They are now 

 called HENRY CLAY and DANIEL WEBSTER. 

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