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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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Sandbach, of Denbighshire, Mr. Seott, of Edinburgh, 
. Sted 
and an, of Boghall, nee Nati a h ; black- 
faced sheep are heski Mr. myss, of Fifeshire, remarks it must be 
and Mr. vee , of = and cross-bred sheep by men of credit to Lord Cla 
are shown by Mr. het pees others. The silver cup is | moment be supposed to be 
motives. Surel 
Wes 
ery g show of pigs by French 
exiitors, in mA fa ema of imported English 
erosses is very marked, 
os following is awe prize list, so far as English 
rs are concerned :— 
I, SHORT-HORN CATTLE, under 3 years.—I1st, the Duke of Beau- 
fort; 2d, Messrs. Beveridge & Gulland, Fifeshire ; 3d, rte do. 
II. SHORT-HORNS, ph et years.—1st, Mr. Stratton, Swindon; 2d, 
: 3 
Lord Leigh ; 3d, Mr. T. G. Tuck, Norfolk. 
Il. Devos CATTLE, under 3 years.—ist, Mr, Heath, of Lud- 
ham; 2d, Leicester; 3d, do. pe 
—ist, Mr. J. Potter, near Birming- 
from Richmond and n 
Tw 
the animal dyi 
a me the first psami of the disorder, 
then we may holima jeas 
ng in a few d ays of intestina 
borne in gi are written 
arendon, and ¢ 
penned from y aert 
and ikad 
ingen nt m 
Rina to observe that 
kefield, as you stated, H. J. 
urner, Richmond, Yorkshire, April 6. 
THE KEYTHORPE SY 
STEM OF DRAINAGE. 
slam; 2d, Mr. Heath; 3d, Lord Leicester. ità, doubt whether they be extensively draining, | t 
T HEREFORD CATTLE, under 3 years:.—tst, Lord Hatherton ; ; . g 
2d, Mr. Heath ; 3d, Mr. W. E. Powell, Horpfordibire. ’ | I shall be pensar he trouble yo i d b mr geitu 
I. HEREFORDS, over 3 years.—1st, Mr. Naylor, near Welch- | 00. the subject of their very general distribution, In 
; 2d, Mr. haw, Northampton. the first place then they ha relation whatever to 
Vil. Pouteo Baxeps, under 3 years.—ist, Mr. © ane my of | the “ geological formation,” as it is called, that is to say 
- pg ta Daag di ri a te iG a ia the group of a represented on our maps under 
VIII. POLLED BREEDS; over 3 years —Ist, Mr, M‘ Cambie: 2d, 
Mr. M‘Combie; 3d, Mr Stewart, ne colour, for rpose of classification, because 
WEST aime an. under 3 years.—1st, Mr. T. Knowles, | they contain a common and arp group of fossils, 
È The furrows are connected with the operations which 
X, West tromnxinentil over 3 years.—I1st, ro omg 5 Beau- 
fort; 2d, Mr. J. H. Erskine Wemyss, Fife; 3d, Mr. neyd, 
near Newcastle 
SL e iial Fonrrax BREEDS. her awards. 
XII. Cro: XED: ro aa ears.—1st, Mr. J. Dudgeon, Lin- 
lithgow; 2d, ‘Mr. P: ie 
geet. Cross Ranana, paita T3 Years.—ist, Mr. J. Martin, Aber- 
r: J.S tewart; 3d, do. 
Maas fini, For THE BesT Ox.—The Duke of Beaufort. 
oli 
I, LEICESTER.— None exhib 
Il. J: Tombs, La st, Mr. S, wee letchington, Oxford ; 2d, 
T. Sourmpowss —tIst, Lord Walsingham; 2d, do.; 3d, Mr. 
7 Onn Curviors.— ist, Mr. H. R. Sandbach, Denbigh; 2d, do.; 
Mr. D. spoth Smirhfeld, taisbe h. 
. Bua —Ist Mr. J. 8 Stewart; 2d, Mr. J. H. 
kine onya. 
dees page ee eyes 
by the Minister of 
PRR Se See. 
THE CATTLE MURRAIN. 
I was ap a pists he to find by the leading article last | I 
Saturday t reeive the importa nee of this 
subject to = ‘Boitich p eaen and it is very gratifying 
me to inisters have issued an order 
hibiting the i er RRP of cattle, hides, or stad 
e territories adjoining the 
popni 
heep, to Mrs. Sarah Wes 
were presented i in public on Wodinedsy 
of Agricul 
we shall ere long ine vee ve 
drea seourge along with them S ce 
ini sagi a course I advocate might tend 
eef, which is 
ia ance 
sry too high, ks as eJm 
hi 
bs, Langford, Oxford; rea, Mr. Tombs, Gloucester- | 
produced the qe wet aceumulations rge constitute 
in 
most eases both s 
tute the substr: 
d s any cas 
where they meei in on full development they consti- 
um also as far any agri 
~ oO 
"m 
cultural 
operations, Shain of Galena or P'e kye , are 
conce: 
vated furrows 
orm of th 
on 
stratum, whether bon Bi 
superficial accu 
turn ve been 
in the transmission 
at reference to land d 
muy be oor rke 
a kinds 
migth is not ad present o 
pe 
rather ig to the nature of 
up ost, 
ah on at different depts seats wooed functions 
th of water throu Som 
ver, 
of draining, though peg arae y ie 
se radua nsensib 
i 
rface and A the Sse of the 
ock below 
of t 
superficial accumulations are of two kinds, |e 
pence together under the 
supp 
appears that 
Be 
h the 
tion 
It is to point out 
thes 
a thar, exist at all aie ey | 
m observation eg ey actually | 
mu 
,& ri to the 
valleys 
the r 
said that the superficial deposits are of fool 
of diff 
I hay 
kinds, both refer: 
nnot for a |em 
ral name | ae qui-di 
a. | system, 
ave,as I n 
ys | or “tosm 
rer Be il 
described under different names. by al 
are w tey 
They all attribute them to aqueous action of 
ations without zoenen to questio 
geology, and certainly w reference gos the Key- 
rpe on stem, will e ‘hem n representing the furrowed 
surface on non-calea well as calcareous strata, 
and on beds of sand, gravel, s and clay, 
Then, again, ht d 
the notice of practi tical men in relation to drainage, the ey 
have been obs ae ny many who bere their general 
distributio prone applicability. To clear 
on "this s point I refer s the extent of 
aqueous soppen connected geri the drainage 
arge bodies of w Pa nd to the land by which they 
ust have been pm duced, ‘while t the same time I 
seated that in practice we have a d 
questions as to the manner in which they were pro- 
duced, amt merely to their depth, direction, and dis- 
tributio 
ection 2 the wp Re of these furrows to 
aad g Krets yo discoverin 
cae iffie 
t out sr ysl > benefit of 
those who deny their existence an 
ing use 
is certain tha : if. they do not 
from parallel 
m of drain 
ENG aon thew, o 
tandard of the “ gridiron,” $ Trim 
MALIGNANT TYPHUS IN CATTLE. - 
distempers, terrible in their devastating 
wer, and m apana in A prt origin. 
| ene ce has em to ev y source 5 
“thie water, or = the food have alternately 
porne the responsibili Rae d the mystery remains 
complete as ever. e point however men do dia 
differ in > mech frightful effects that follow the 
introduction of such diseases into a coun With all 
ur indifference to great evils and tolerance of great 
abuses we are occasionally stirred into something like 
pes by some more than usually great mischief 
s| pon 
Dropping the term “ murrain,” for the more expres- 
sive * “typhus,” we proceed n her something of the , 
ature of such diseases in 
m one of two Greek mbt "signifies 
oulder.” Accept whi 
| fro: 
very scat esp the intr tion of this murrain able erent es ; general prostration, trembling fits, violent a 
very 8 a los ong our own cattle | kinds ; but both involving the EIA aa “of p bodies | diseased secretion, offensive haben abscess, are its pro- 
infinitely grenter aig as va of “4 the animals derived | Of ae off the lan hose statem minent symptoms; death an mmediat e de tion 
foreign supply. For the gen one gots then I | by a singular sofun of ideas they hare been ‘called, it results. Look to i seas ; meagre as’ it is, 
ay, prohibie at once the importation of live cattle from | “ the of the sci how g the statement of its fatality. i 
European country, save ite two L have before | whate y evidence advent in the few but awfully ex ive 
all of t died.” And e it to the 
I think it possible a a considerable portion of the 
supply of cattle sen is ight still be 
kept up without Saigos if the animals were slaughtered 
Rot as you e doc ises after their 
arrival, but they are shipped from abroad ; then | ‘ 
if disease car it would b in to 
show itsel unmistakably during the voyage, and I 
apprehend no stringent measures would quired to 
ti i . From oy ces 
o longer than from some of the Seotch 
Es to vende from wai Catia beef is TEEN 
atie moment the een Igium, | | 
r ent 
u S I pray you, the attention of 
t that deeply concerns all classes, 
first place fall errer in oot 
it must ulimateiy affect the 
of the co 
agricul s should, o one thinks, be a 
which pa be on y as conclusive in any court 
the details of this avide I cannot pirg Menier, 
perha) 
Into 
though l may pe 
occasion. 
rigin 
former aoe pe neni (the erratic tic tertiaries) there 
peos a a surface peboet ued to the depth of at least 
th 
1800 feet, and that 
ecur to the sub: 
At wasn my object is spa gre 
u 
ristic of the pestilences that have d ed 
cattle a diferent periods judging from the A reage Arias 
accounts that ha t 
The malady aH cape are at | 
at 
that I was 
de 
i 
species in these 
agricultural 
oo 
ved by marine 
deposits up to "signe 
in ap vi 
tions 
not ques 
origin of 
who pretends to the slightest nas 2 Daia 
ct, | Knowledge, 
With ps to the second 
deposits, I who 
7 
tration, dry 
followed by 
s e thi urried breathing, termi- 
|} nating in purging, profuse dis 
moaning, death. in 1744 t the pipe visited 
was the first to point > ana a out, a 
time stood ate among g 
a cua class of deposits from 
at first considered them m 
eologists in consi 
the 
sown de: ba igs 
t 
the aigeal the distemper was apeks ‘wo the aie 
duc 
of diseased subjects from a part where it was 
the late war, it is well known, typhoid, fover 
ars of the sea which prodonse the erratic tertiaries, 
gence of the | 
during the emer, 
named them “ warp of 
it from 
ound proofs of 
this, consisting of fluvia tile 
the world ; but I, as 
| name it, and have offered to 
or the majori them, 
This ' 
or that reason į 
” inti 
y 
the that 
muddy water like the warp of ths | 
terrestrial surface 
and marine deposits with | livi 
to Hne and fresh-water halls, anene the last traces of 
elephantine I modifi 
and many returned 
wai apparently having escaped the disease, but 
| former 
visitation, it was pesoent ie are part of Germany, By 
. | hension ; the more so, as we remember 
for appre- 
| of course 
4 
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