"e THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Manon 12, 1554 
——— = ee have | admission to thes 
approaching sale of the Towneley herd now com-| farm produce, Imagine a farmer allowing a pig of the Club should on to the Agi. 
mands, we publish the follow D — of it|jobber to take away a litter of pigs and return cultura l Hall A Looe time the judges ra 
and well known judge “who has paid a| what he liked for them! The asd ERN d pork | making their awards r. Monk that ths 
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recent Val to it. ee is sent direot to London or so 2 I eceive some grat 
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CF bad od : à looking | town. What a pity that the pou i p ; 1 E é 5 ew 
over Colonel Tow v. ipm shingent S oaa Moe bue can is not equally eared for! Consider er a »" eithe sin d px I cup n i. the amount oi 
m» splendid ; in condition and health, and there is nses which might nearly all be | sovereign, BED'S pro po- 
rate an — undeserving of the highest y praise. I iiw: by its being sent Ainar iem " dicens sition for admitting d P of the Club t 
really t think the in my tim is to the Soper ca other large mark higgler|the galleries of the during the ti 
save perhaps EADE ape NAR RR M who pure the chicken at the m house, | J ones Wi 
where grand figures were realised, I particu ees takes it bue als, plucks, packs, an + perg it to | having been, y ed a ii 
noticed Lot 9, Pageant, a remarkably nice cow, an| market. If the producer sent it direct to the| carried unanimously. T s is the more notits. 
extraordinary breeder, and as it seems to me, breeding | isfaetorv would the | able, as at the last Council Meeting, in Dee 
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Butterfly, also. “Her daug hter 63), Wharfdale's | 9 of Augus and September. Chickens that are 
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Lot 30 is a wonderfully good one, and probably the en akin pay the care and extra pains taken 
best ; ia 31 is a grand heifer. eedin hes, 
grand cow and a good breeder. Her f, Lot 9, B.c., 6; en co Boso n has done a great deal fo 
must make a most useful bull. Lot 33. pre out of|sorts and branches of trade. The quantity “of winnin 
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it is impossible to conceive a grander show than the|immense, and al ough the price fetched by | Papers placed T v ur hands for examination, and 
whole mpm mien E can ever possibly be exhi- ey foreign produce is in every case below that : a nde 
hited in & f the native, yet so w eS ow es it answer that every | °*tracts for pu ublication of such portions as are of 
ason brings new nam new firms into this novis decet in otTotlón with the breed, 
frat from abroad, ahd ‘the aed imported i —— 
cratic as ever, BUTTERFLY llTH isa easly go ae 
one, and has gona e on wonderfully since the Worcester 
meeting. Bakon HopewEIL is a bull that bears | eor pes que n the increase, It is very gratifying TALE OF A PR 
looking rat, but his first Suiten. is na very striking. he catalogues and prize lists ss the mada 
I aie the Duxe or WHARTDALE. He is a wonderful principal "Poultry Shows the names of many landed | Iw an old-fashioned Book r ins long and lofty, bat 
young bull, thougl It farmers as exhibitors. It is to be 
is N "will soon be right. I hardly know whether r we hoped that the number of them may yet be Mi oes a the Soro ; ranged Dong AMA ü 
ever had & more promising young bull for agri m useful UE and that by their good example the deep indeed that when you wanted to persuade a vol itm 
purpose. Grandeur and s eat | poultry yard, which hitherto has not played its | out of its ancient nest, you ad t to dive in, arm. "e 
substance—all combined. Pu may take its place in a good position on the| if you were drawing a rabbit out of his hole,—whence 
right side of the farmer's balance-sheet. D. after the labour of extrac ction _ ther e follo wel such 
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As the time of year approaches when one thinks diu 
of spring chickens and Asparagus, and ducklings | that you must rest the boo een p* [mers 
and green Peas, nd as one considers what a| or the correction of exaggeration on the sub- | away te breath till the Boris iud tm ad D —in 
number of chickens must be consumed during the p of provient |n diseases dr SIMONDS | this mortuary chamber of departed volumes, which I 
bustling, driving time of the London season, the | has addre a letter to the Times, from which | shall not describe any further because I think the state 
question constantly presents itself—where do they | we ma ake the qc extraet :— of the bookshelves will stand sponsor for all the rest— 
oe come from? ae v wed and statistically | «“ Within the last week my attention was directed to | = Hary furniture, the carpet of extinct pattern 
swered, many in our agricultural |a statement in one of the leading deut papers | F cA 
districts, with vut fitis vs appliance at hand | to the effect that the ‘lung diseas n the increase | 
the profitable rearing of poultry, would stan n the London dairies, aid ze t fin iO. ‘fertile vale of | duacra 
at the idea that eggs can be sold, and Avlahery eon ime ase has '—I quote the entire sentence | ^ 
i r so low, and yet — for three nths been extremely archer and the 2: hung one winter's De b y ‘asia 
Sg Tigao Eiio qi here, z eet high cid RD y a cand M 
-—— pe ores dude tings P " ilia iig ned able reat Tost now, E roms from my previous xni ports esi pu [ird j^ 
2e AT sg M freight and Sigg ee di d I put myself in communication with several farmers, | landscape, if soit may be called, which this a 
bi hand, what farmer will not an nis | cattle-dealers, veterinary surgeons, dairymen, and | Survey recalled to modern yet pas state in w! 
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from this date he reads (as he will do in any Paper | and I to the veterinary surgeon to the Vale e very sight of it Ye a “history a ear 
that gives the weekly return of London markets)— | of Aylesbury € Cattle Association. The results are now | Bic eand warren and wold, a nd wood, an nd water; the m 
** best Surrey fo a , 10s. to 12s. per couple, and | before me, an that my in its state of primeval froson, at 
d 8s. to 1 informants m the London rine are almost unani- |J ot ‘inal s0 separated from the dry land: sie 
a man se now looks on the feathered | mous in stating that the lung disease has not fieri was some artistic merit in the way ve S shadowing 
oris of his farmyard with certainly a feel-|t? any serious extent for several mon hat | WAS suggested to the eye, by a sort of hazy 5 
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si al and, further, that in the isolated instances in which it | outline, but left imagination to “a a m 
to the production of has been present its virulence has been ectildileably the old pool? to ‘Snipe marsh, and thence 
induced to pay att n cane? > which 
diminis Osiers? and ‘the Alder-Leasowes,’ whic 
EN in perfection could he but feel satisfied that | —« My info rmation from Aylesbury is even more con- | darkened into‘the New Coppice’ Then came 8 
exertions would bring him a fair return. | clusive on 2 int, pos correspondent t thus bei — |arable pieces rather carefully, I may say Pii 
Many who read this will say, as has ps often *With respec E to g diseas — | denoted ; for you could count the ridge and fu uit 
said before, ** These fine prices are all very well | possibly t large fig ure marked upon each field bore Tu 
on paper, but who M" them in re "DUM n|my ease-book, phy fovand » with these a copy o oF the | its order in the ancient ‘terrier? annexed. unis in hut 
reply it can only be saii t he end of which you will |? Paddock, indicated oa a er 
and the first week in à jan find a list of the outs with the numbers of the|that had once been gree yatta as 
be returned to th different Herde, readers cattle insured within a radius of 10 miles of the tow: empor mess turned vd iy e t when you bad 
a higglers of Surr urrey, S ea viel of Aylesbury, no very inconsiderable number to form a far t b : of t the , and Ls 
presenting an Mibi do race to the pes conclusion as to the extent of disease of any kind. arrived so into the bowels thing quit 
add ins *0 euro-pneumonia we had in May, 1863—3 ; | beyond the paddock, you came to some 
ee aed September, 15; Oct., 50 reducible to modern ideas as a the 
January, 1 a grand assemblage of Far 
cases in 10 months, but | ings, and Yards, y un d 
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ihe list-alladed to- I find no less a barn with i s eru p 
v insured, and 150 calves, maki erneath this modest homestead "the 
hi : ly 51 f b, e re have € asa or * Pulford’s living, 
m is een d cases of lung disease during ten months; ing,’ or somebody else 
vision, as he would any other part of his stock. r, speaking in general terms, only five iim a month repetition spells over 
an ordinary homeste in almost any | in this wee number of ani imals, umerous larger holdings w 
E of England: you as er if he tl title of “ The Abbot’s Grang: 
eps fowls, the answer is, '' There are some |?! of cattle discases i in its true Tight di ‘somewhat mie sor: pereue ew the 
ut—more trouble than they are worth—but pair. Paetos cer o 
mistress likes a chicken o e table when MELSENEDISQ TBE Rs ceram nd these small holdi 
^ » ; shea fie and in w cases 
= pie nen v is Meses ^ case that} We learn from the Mark Lane Express wh tent seemed to be the rule : 
bee (id. we ege 2 d dee ing Lon Ms some | ought to have appeared in Ag e MA veg y the adjoining, and grouping with each j 
€ ; at the last Counc: f the | proportion. zx 
lish Agrieultural Society, that tho letter of |. But there must hare been something er 
M OWARD, of Bedford, on the office of Con- | indeed or very thoug nde and fy Y 
MES m €: clutches, and the pullets | sulting Engineer to the Socie n a| Of this record of rs hu 
Puer and o nai you e see upon the coun’ 
the produce is sold to a bee Agee inquire nt the the circumstances and | 
e Smithfield ng, also A akato various radit 
ially re in our last week's du ý we noy | | italy were not all the mere effect 
CORBET suggested that Members! Presently the examination appa 
