156 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [FEBRUARY 19, 1864, 
\ding farm pr ; | Franc y, was his| present time, and shown how, from bei 
hout | Francis Quartly, was a very successful | breeder, and at p g eini aia 
kec in building farm premises and co ottages tron ugh by his son, Mr. James Day of D aee E confined almost tog portion of Sho dodi g cay 
—— was succeeded 
kingdom,'and this has — me the great improve- ERAS van, oquabs zug » gra 
ment to be made in this espect, and, with res v : ien fetnale prises, The herd frst signin’ “itself at|and chiefly by aid of tenant farmers, there 
hamb he Royal Shows, almost at their commencement, “awe d advantages of unlimited means which 
peng -— pr ms ‘of giving threo ambers t the Roya 8, : h have 
of plac the roof upon the vit with the 1st prize "bn D (89), yie had vel "ok the bee the mand of other breeds, it has Spread 
sold A Mr. Paul. ince that time Nelson 
her ted p uina Lenna id, of Wickham Court, |34 prize at the Royal Agricultural Show ndsor; itself E ‘retaining its original ‘purity, into almost 
Bromley, Kent tN Napoleon III. (464), the 1st mE = e th : A yal "Agricul |e ery C try. 
w of Kirtlington he | tural Show at Salisbury; Eclipse a lst prize bu The great secret of breeding is to keep animals w 
ood, of gton, e Bath and West of Eng pws and the Duke of| Adapted to the soil, pasturage, and inite, A qua 
ord, + 
th t of land 
groun d-floor. , In either ‘of these es mA sexes Flitton, who took the Ist prize and the Gold Medal at the | we must study this: fora breed which is invali quceel 
" m ne chambers are ed" ro late Royal Agricultural Show at Battersea. The report of the een may be ill adapted, and consequently unprofitable je 
crampe for. sp: ace as wh en e three are upon one | Stewards of Live Stock at the Battersea Show, page 879, says i| ot 
d 
i ** The Devons are the best I have ever seen, and I have attende 
floor. Colonel Lennard has - — = great 11 meetings; the cows, heifers, and yearling heifers especially S pis be agement 15 the Devon br sod is 3 particulary 
success hollow — - brick on edge walls. iey are | vor y superior. Mr. James Davy, of Flitton, sent five | valuable in this respect, for "d perience has n that the, 
recommended as being drier, warmer, and somewhat | animals, and won four Ists and a = against one of his | will flourish in any climate, at perhaps AN never Lo 
— own, besides taking both Gold Medals with the Duke of|greaterperfection than among their native hills ; 
A first-class pair of cottages with three chambers Flitton and Temptress.” Princess Alice, the lst prize year- | the Heather 
Meolase p g Mr eg Mr. Davy's—and who had aba d won the i “at morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing; 
lly be built for 2507. The ihtetesb on this 
m: Du d cu cud zc or Bo i ape and where sina stormy winds prevail nearly two-thirds of 
lay, at 5 per cent. per annum, is 12/. 10s., or say | Go Id Med dal. 
7 . , “Two such yearlings Mr. | the year; and through the long winter nights 
. per week per cottage; and I have found no Davy's Pri on the report says pn 
P s Alice end "Yo ou ng Em ae have been pon ne The tired ploughman, dry and war: 
difficulty i in je oye rent when wages were lls. — te ante nia, MT ; Rioha uber pedi cep sis balfaaisonahe gulag ee m, 
per week, eh ma men that I have ever found Mlioarers Molland, bred and sold many valuable mals to the late Hurling the hail and sleeted rain 
more ec to to p per week for such a cottage riae Consort, ; including the 1st prize aie at the Smith- Against the casement’s tinkling pane; 
than 1s. a ndo an the accommodation that has too bor id Showin indas ha and i therta r to aa paceman ri - erred a dim e — and fox 
os rin ral 
peo and too - often been thought sufficient. Hewitt | Ge Gold old) Medal at Broitaeta in Decomber, 1860. He also bred 
is, Feb. 6. oe Kad 0, n Mr. Turners property, gain 
t 1st prize a the : Lm o cultu: Qato ers at Lincoln. 
Mr. George Turner, o acon Downs = of Barton), says :— 
THE DEVON BREED OF CATTLE. * T boga n breeding in 1818, having had some from my father, ENFORCEMENT OF e 
Continued from p. 131.) ~~ had bre d for LEA en En ox is best i I am anxious to obtain, through y 
one et [rom e late Yr. avy, Md ose AS t. avy, oi | 
Ebr given a e December by Captain Flitton, n, and the on ea gem ge — bye I pag from Mr., Bailey Denton to "de [rr 
m believe "m ave Wo; e pri st an. ave 
The Dew M veniet nuin ht fó tim = Y the post herd Dom pady Tanben abont, 7, a, ots IM What i is the date and title of the Act of Parliament 
ug or some " The r 23) at Tu nce o bled t 
h the Wales (106) at So jutha mpton, Protection (1 10) a at Newcastle, lex 
et to pang the font veinte in d rt Dore of York Qn. at ore: and Exeter, Duke oL cen ee another landowner’s land, ‘either with or wilted i 
: ave their pedigrees recorde Gloucester and Paris, and the Zouavo, were all lst prize bulls | permission of such other landowner, in order to obtain 
determined to - ae ition this there pot at the - iu arab "EE eat —: mber of his females have alsó Bn proper outfall for the drainage of water the 
ublishe: — of their igrees, res ing which | won prizes. 4 
p . Dixon remarks :—“ The ey t ad iio d in those | _ Mr. P ling of of Hea whe wot urt, Ae one A - b | noe sib uM landowner? and where m 
1845 e 
great days, but still Devon breeders were a herd book | present Mr. Walter Farthing Eoad hia oles to "exhibit - I adopt this public mode of asking this information, 
to themselves, mews: had attained quite a masonic | obtained several prizes at the Sm iitbfie ld, the Royal, the Bath as I consider the subject of such vast public im 
acograoy:ín thei rp a ene gs me hs - Pam Y - F: hing fa ily f A yos "t E 50 nd portance. 
D as een in e arthin mi or e las! E id 
forth and fix ed 182 20 as the year of memory.” ‘The probably. nearly Te years. e Jato Mr. Fa thin 4 Iam at this moment anxious hn 
outfall for drainage off my estate a 
a turnpike road, The road snthoritos have. ve; 
es of Devons were known to breeders, and com- Died in1 aid My Pn ad E Ë 
to their successors as long ago as the m M Teclio, Since his death Mr. Walter ‘Farthing 
ive ental 6 xhibitor, and bes oe Xon ees | 
begiuning of the last century; and I could have given cg por Min wncle Have: DEL E folle Mu lbs thai 
earlier pedigrees from private notes and information, and Z several of the local A viz. ie os Parodie stam. under the ee m each pont to any dept h I require, 
but vine it unnecessary to go beyond the date of the | L 226), Duke of Leeds (618), and Viscoun as 8000 as ke the 2 ns on the other side of the 
establishm: of agricultural societies and the prize males Bese ssie (534), Lovely (856), Nelly m and  Dushes ess | voad MS om es BSA 
o which the publie knowledge and interest of Leeds (194: De &- two Ist 1m Devons ae Neun sent | o ecessary 
, ‘cat ia Forester (46); b e Roy. at Wi ndso 9 both fro w bred b In both cases the es the land esum MM 
may ong the earliest is Fores r( > rel = s Fo be well eu ater breeders, gie sen y | have, long ago, stopped up o. ld open courses (ia 
foresight and correct, judg- | it, leaving E vise es the wall), an 
ment in uniting the pig: and symmetry rof i» North is en. peso Mos and too salon 
Devon stock larger si: “ Bir. pone dac y land 
oko beng the of Cam Peregrino r bred by Bie Mtwtxdder Hondt and- the "wihn ar MI 
is bein lo — regrine," bred by Sir ander Hoo ner 
en ín 1527, s pee the Ist miya Roya of the lst prize at the Bath and Exeter Sho ow at Truro, which ude stands iback c3 in p ko 
ltural Sh t Cambrid and the Royal Agricultural Show at Warwick, although bred | one case I have received a modified consent to c à 
Agricultur ow at Cambridgein in Somerset, possesses almost entirely Quartly blood, and was | new drain at my own expense, to a brook below, In 
by Mr. Farthing with great success, as was proved by c i 
i lst e 
adus Me lim Me finc dels aa Aap LOT EY e sgt ulis etur. | one ease wal of built being. actual bulk. vet 
bred by ake) eects wae his soopaa to l 
i Mr. Farthing wi. W his 
i —— of mg ae t - e sono 5Vthedünt ^; the winnsbotatamy In t the other case a have xy for peri 
a newts Dav Tedas: of. Tiovpus arla he| ,Mr. James Hole, of Knowle, has bred man: ze winners | I wish to know what I c in either or bo! the. 
it must bé admitted that the late Mr. is | at the Royal and other Societies, as also Cecil Smith, Esq., of | either uid or iod the consent of the owners of the 
Quarily s very instrum in to perfection, | Bishop's ydeard, and the Messrs. Gibbs. To the fact of Messrs. d over the road ? 
and assistance of his nephews, by exhibiting them, Bult & Bond having purchased Hundred Guinea (56), and I of n no one 5o well alified as Mr. Bailey 
and being so successful at cattle shows in their yom days, | bringing him into the Vale. of Taunton Deane, may be well qu f 
afforded people an opportunity of testing the superiority of the | Mainly attributed Messrs. Fouracre and Bond’s success for Watton. (^ give this important wp. as no d 
LL ELI the public — i eir erd Book” wil some years at the Royal Agricultural Shows; and with | has done so much for the public good he matter í 
m with a testimonial. 
erm — (86) laid the verte 1 sn the t improve- 
e tees pa Dunblig Hic unty of Somerset, | and drainage as he has. 4 Glouce. Cod hire Duas. 
Thot c eme onthe stock of the ‘neighbourhood was most Brei 
a afe their steers could be picked out at the local fairs 
for pe erwar 
The.late Mr. R. Merson bred Cambridge (12), a orth- THE MINERAL THEORY. 
ampton (80) oth 1st prize o ida andSultan ( 122). v» was [The following communication from —— | has been amt 
prove that the Fores majority of the peas DARS ls were 
descended from orester bre, car A Mr. neon ros also 
ir. by AeA ather. He 
as the patriarch of the b: in modern He took 
the aaa of Forester" from having been sold when young to | 2dat York. Hisbrother, Mr. J. Merson, has since his dea. th br - * Baron. 
the late Mr. Knight to run with stock on the moor, Yid was | many Royal and Bath and West of England Ist prize wi — oe" nea by request of the T 
p by Mr. 1 great number of | Mr. Bodley, of Stockley Pomeroy, is the breeder of a gre x the las of the Journal of W 
prize animals descended from him Beard Gvidewsoe of his valüé many, prize bulls; he rather objects to fatten females for | ee ii Society 2 England, here is a paper, 
»s a stock-getter. Mr. Frank Quartly’s nephews, Messrs, | exhibition. The Earl of parm ng in Norfolk; Lord Portman, | Messrs. Law Gilbert, in which old charges agains 
John and James Quartly, breed each other's bulls, and | the Earl of Eldon, Mr. Edward Pope, Mr. Paull, and Mr. | Mi d as they hare 
thus a prize gained by one tells oed Ts for the other. J. A. Smith, are successful breeders in Dorse j the Messrs, | Me, person ud others, are — an vive 
The followi gall which rizes at the Royal Umbers, fin’ D Mr. "Romane val ne of the | sent an extract from that paper t the U. 
Agricultural s ere bred b; mes Quartly ;— | earliest breeders in Cornwall Among the principal in that Agricultural Colleges, and Jou e 
Baronet (6), Dane” of “Devonshire nd " Quartly's Prince oj | county are Viscount aooe Mr. Purangi Anstey, Mr. elf, it "is Er that they 
Wales (105) Napoleon (250), Duke of York (87) and Warrior | Palmer, Mr, Jas. Tremain, and Mr, Harvey, of Hayle, with a nd in ordet 
543), . Mr. John Q bred Hundred Guinea (56), | great many others in Devaine mma several other Counties. tach a great va sies to their statements, an m— l 
Gan xeter (; Duke of Chester Chester (404), and Sultan (318), an I have before me " MM exten nei ely bred in give others the means of them. them ; á 
9f course both ui "Eie Rouaber of prise females. Aperin ait iem ing w how eas g 5 advisable to answer them 
calentes m aren a gpseeet established a oiie] best frat f first founa à a eher y F ; there. The followin Principles of Agricultura : 
e , 1856 ; heen atterson, of FA aryland, Gaited iste (ia 
Xs pM d Mc R. Peters ass he d by him kindly 1855 i ae called Messrs, Lawes Hr Gabor d 
d the lst the Royat A rie to oue will Mee subject. It 
who z SEAD Em M im ad manure “(organic aoe oe 
a 
— : “í Sykesville, kosvillo, Maryland, Sept. 3, 1858 ai lied. e (for sul 
own sister, ; Che * Rose of Denmark," awarded tio Tot tprize| ^ PUR t letter of the 29th A has been cerca - n—— —ÓÓ €i 
as a calf at Worcester. The Ist prize ator the best steer under | received. In 1817, Mr. Coke, afterwards Earl of Leicester, of une do hey 
$ years and 2 months, also the extra-prise of 356, for thb best Holkham, England, gave my brother Robert Patterson six | 80 far from y doctrine, the 
Davee exhibitid, wore awarded taa steer nui the: Royal hend Doe eifers and a yearling Devon bull, named by Mr. Coke | substantiate: i E "To "due Aur replied thee oe 
at the show at Bi irminghan, the other, day. The cows were |, eurus.. My brother gave three of the heifers to his father- | salts bel d manure; 
from the herds o dge, Turner, and | I law, Richard Caton, the other three he gave to my father, salts belonged to the {class of o: and ‘that 2 
Farthing. Mr. Brebner, & meet rites me;— | Wm. Patterson; the bull Taurus was the joint property of had Ways a ered ie a as such 5 of the 
HB DON stoot sb own lack mas was sold for 60 guineas, | C8t0n and my father. Two of the heifers belonging to my M back on v tly scientific ud A 
and weighelabout 143 stone, or at about Is, 14d. per Ib, "he father were in calf by a bull of Mr. Coke's, the third M tm mine nt inorgnis, or — i 
Devons fatten well, and t he average w is from 110 to | Put to Taurus upon their arrival in this coun: + uvre Or 
(London 'he:present ‘ight m Devons here | Afterwards were bred to Taurus, and the pr ires | question ; w ; was trying by a 
sr ge Prince Alfred, and Crown | Wet bred together. In 1835, after the deat rij a new definition to my min dioc ar heory, 
ne] 19 cows "i milk and calf, and 23 store and fattening — of his Devon cattle descended from Taurus, | substitute for it another which el 
h vince them by 
Devon Cattle from the stock he had given my | tocumtions n w, and endeavo x 
PONE nmt nn years "Ao an boa dh that I MS EM US Brteute quoting the following p passages of m 
" ut ' Anchises," ; 
nn ed DOE k from one aa in| the quantity of ot fond ot bots kinds, aim er in 
: lgned, Gs Partana t | on is th on to 
in the Sue Bei ta aprend rapidly, and iehighly valued | Une. y manuring with imanite eea Saune 
é ble mi istituents, the ; 
number of animals of the purest descent. dann m y as they would have been if a eine. LGAs 
I have traced the breed from the earliest to tho|" P enpremaona in tho air, Pd Dy am 
