THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



[Dec. i|, 



i Duke of Richmond 

 :ra, X bred by His° Gn 





mond, of Goodwood, 



Grace. The silver medal wi 



ham, near Cambridgt 

 Southdown wethers, 1 

 Mr. Jonas Webb, of 





r 10/. to Mr. E. Whu: 



Essex pigs, bred by h 

 . Fisher Hobbs, and fe 



>/. to the Right Hon. Earl R 



. for a pen of three 

 vb old Coleshill pigs, bred by hi 



1 middlings, Barley-meal, and milk. 



eye placid and lively. The 1 





The Hereford breed never sent abroad a finer specimen 

 of its symmetry and parts. 



The Duke of Rutland's prize short-hom ox, in Class 

 It, appeared to us to be a coarse animal : 

 was very bare of flesh, the girth deficient, and the twist 



In the Devon breed Lord Portman exhibited very 

 successfully. We think the quality of the Devons never 

 was better. The Earl of Leicester and Mr. Quartlv 

 U's Prize beast 

 was an exact model of Devon symmetry. L. rd IWt- 

 man's ox was bare in the shoulder, and the thighs were 

 narrow behind. The Earl of Leicester's steer showed 

 the finest pile of hair, but we prefer the curlv coat of 

 Mr. Quarth'. ,rks a vigour of 



constitution and a strong propensity to fatten. The 

 neck of Mr. Wippell's ox pleased us be* 





see from Scotland a 



r ully deficie 



ery wWeT/distant ; 



ach disjointed. The pelt is also rough 



tra. Stock were two excellent 

 ging to Mr. Wraf 

 -om Pontypool. 



of fat flesh on°i 





,,r,-lvi 



LONGWOI 







;ity ol food that is used -by any an 



r pleasing the appearance, it never 

 out that essential requisite of c< 



irly possessed. Mr. Tw 

 TheDukeofRichnv 



f Mr. Pail 



idges, and in general opinion they bore hard on tl 

 rize animals. The only fault was a narrow twist ar 

 falling off in the hind quarters ; but in the length i 



we very particularly observed a new Lad 

 2 years and 9 months old, bred and fed by Mr. J" 

 Alison, of East Retford, Nottingham. We do n 

 collect ever having seen bo pure a specimen of tli 

 Leicester breed ; the fore flank was prominent i 



»cp, showed a 20 months old 

 i fed by himself, from the i 



■ 



s rather scanty. The large a 



The pri: 

 m, though tendi 



U::.lm. 



f good flitches. Tb 



t that a cross between two breeds does 

 n object for competition, as the parts 

 perpetuated. Few black pigs were 

 ; specimens usually 



i much exceed the i 



ative superiorities more decidedly 



esent show. The West Highland 



showing this year, being ( 





Hobbs, he 



ng one of the stewards. Black 



he rays of the sun ; but we think 



unmoved, aB pigs and poultry, should be « I. 



plexion ; but this may be only a prejudice which we 

 have formed. 



Ihe show of roots was equal to former years ; Messrs. 

 f-moon-street, bein* always in the ad- 

 vance. The roots of the Globe Mangold Wurzel were 



Pbe common Beet were long and large; and 

 I Ota. The green Globe Tur- 

 nips, and the Swedes, and hybrids, were finely rooted 

 and topped. The Yellow Hybrids are a fine Turnip. 

 Mr. Skirving's Swedish TurnipB and Yellow Bullock 



^^Fl^^Zd^d^t^^g Sine f u u n te d d h ; 

 too of the plant for the purposes of j t d 



of originality. Chaff-cutters aud root*im.J D "S» 

 abundant, and grain-drilling mach™ ^S* 2 

 observed a crusher by Mr/Sn^w^J^Jy* 



flywheel, and turned round by hand •''the £11** 

 easier than by cog and teeth. Milk dishes of VuT " 

 now shown aud are much approved, and also .u. .? 



■ ■ - 



in farming when the time comes of roofing over ET 

 eries like the terminus of a railway. The el*r,w 

 the roof would prevent any inconvenience fruru R 

 fleeted heat. 



Chelsea. The company »«[«,,*. 

 I respectable as in auv f./rrvr >! - 

 the Duke of Cambridge honoured | 



i larger size, yet we are also of opinion thu 

 vas fully equal to any Show since tie form* 

 Club nearly 50 years ago. Among abwp 



fleshy all over. The head of this animal, *e think, 

 will seldom or never find any parallel ; the not *■ 

 horn, the small quick ear, the placid eve, and tbefistij 



Joht wasmos 6 ! conspicuous^andTif The gold" med»l had 

 been left to our award, we would have given it to Mr. 



FLAX IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY. 

 At the late monthly meeting of this Soc^t; " 

 Btated that several scutching mills arc being erected a 

 the south of Ireland, and some have already begun ■•* 

 The agriculturists report, that it is difficult togetpeopte, 

 in general, throughout the southern counties, to do M 

 work at hand-scutching the Flax. The average quits? 

 of clean Flax, which the Society's hands can turn out. - 

 a Buperior manner, in 12 hours' work, is 8 lbs. to 10. »> 

 and some can do 16 lbs. ; but die general rate, doce -> 

 the south, where they have taught *i« ■yrtem^w* 



Eje? It Is very ™dj'j° J» j^^^^fc 

 farmers who grow Flax to hate recoups* to EU i* ^ 

 preparing the fibre, in place of having it done by 



-n out an average day's work, tne «-* -. -— 



- to the grower t. * - 

 s it could still be practised, with benepv «^JJ 

 d the Flax has been grown by small ™ ta y ^ 



The SocietThas gone to considerable expense in trg 

 all its agriculturists in the Belgian ^^i* 



the process. By these means the rlax can ^ 

 equally well with mill scutching J^ana n» ^ 



itely, in the majority of instances where '■ & 



been tried, the people were too indo <f < ^ « 



day's work ; and the great expenses thus a ^ 



the scutching by hand, have induced sev i ^ 



rietors to erect mills, where their w ^^t 



^ be prepared cheaply andexped.tiouB.yJr 



agricultukXTsocibty of ibel a^ 



of this; 



>f agricultural instruction*^ > & 

 lDd relying with confidence "jo D ^ 

 Society to carry out his ▼• ?olB esf 



.oble president, the p*°pne«J ' ° l J* »* 



