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his turn for inspection was past, and the claims of 

 other animals were being fairly investigated. He left 

 his animals to exhibit themselves with their natural 

 elegance, and accepted his fate accordingly. 



The great number of new names intermixed with the 

 old ones shows how the breeding taste is advancing, 

 even as is an inclination amidst the wealthy for mowing- 

 machine and steam-plough. 



My paper having come to an end, I would only use 

 the few last lines to remind the beginner that if he 

 wishes for real satisfactory success in the end, he should 

 climb as far as he can upon others' shoulders to begin 

 with; that is, he should buy only animals of the best 

 of pedigrees and the best of shape, an opportunity 

 which is offered him by the continually advertised sales 

 of famous breeders, who are either overstocked, or have 

 fulfilled their term of years. 



September, 1868. 



I have not been able to lay hands yet upon Drury's 

 quaint work, so cannot yet give the exact mode which 

 he recommends of utilizing wheat-straw. But as I must 

 find it for my own use, I shall make the bailiff, who I 

 suspect never returned it to my hands, have another 

 rout out of his literary baggage. 



Assuredly, the labour of collecting leaves in this 

 country to be stored to help out our winter fodder 

 could never pa}^ considering the price of labour, the 

 thinness of the crop, and the damage that would pro- 

 bably ensue to the tree itself from being over-fla- 

 gellated. 



The hint given us that it is beneficial to the plant 



