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two or three animals bought by an Australian gentle- 

 man were still in the keeping of Mr. Webb's son, 

 awaiting arrangements for their transportation. One 

 of these, a beautiful heifer of 14 months, was purchased 

 at the winding-up sale, for 225 guineas. It was called, 

 the " Drawing-room Eose," from this circumstance, as 

 I afterwards learned. When it was first dropped by 

 the dam, Mr. Webb was confined to the house by indis- 

 position. But he had such a desire to see this new 

 accession to his bovine family, that he directed it to 

 be brought into the drawing-room for that purpose. 

 Hence it received a more elegant and domestic 

 appellation than the variegated nomenclature of high- 

 blooded animals often allows. 



When the last volume of the " English Herd-Book " 

 was about to be published, Mr. Webb sent for insertion a 

 list of sixty-one cows, with their products. He generally 

 kept from twenty to thirty bulls in his stalls. 



Nor were his labors confined even to the two great 

 spheres of enterprise with which his name has been 

 intimately and honorably associated. If it was the 

 great aim of his intelligent activities to produce stock 

 which should yield the most meat to the acre, he also 

 gave great attention to the augmented production 

 of the land itself. He was the principal originator 

 and promoter of the great Agricultural Hall, in 



