418 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
[APRI 30, 1864, 
indeed t m is confessed, when an ‘Institution 
very purpose of 
the utmost for the v 
t brother, * The Duke,” obtaining at 
the dog as the best bull a any E ere 
1 eigh t months old gs 
of the examin = | “eldest 
won a second year ; aud the nature 
ect | j meeting 
tion whieh would xs bg escribed, 
spur of so reward, w 
> and th 
he poe anm n, with sp 
neh of i 
i s ia 
eases ou 
pw eins te him 
e Royal rg inane De ps inp: 
the work 
of a scientific 
d else- 
cie 
believe that it can woo do anyth in 
d hel the Royal Agricu ind College, 
far as that Tnstitution is xps 
pr of the 
m 
ent, whic oh seems 
ve 
pupils ; or this has n, of course, out of t 
a in which Der are severally held b 
eir s 
What is the pitar- of agricultural tesdhing : at competition at Roanne (Loire—France), which is 
some- 
he estre, "rmperintended 
e presume, the 
"e eonclusion that a private farm i is better 
e College one for instruction in farm praetieo ; ; 
cial 
pear na be beaten by 
k 
ol | extende 
recent salta ea annou 
t a | ende rin 
e|and New Zea 
A pe 
school of she of botany, C 
r | autum g 
roots rap dor A pene aa um use in | Cons e fa 
an 
and stimulate agricu aluna education so & 
never lepi n guide 1d and stimulat a in this pleco 
hither calf. 
A 1841, as the bes 
the two pee rs al bull at t 
ry largely Dur 'Society' 8 first M exhibition at York in zm 
nd, which premiums likewise at Stockton He DER 
j ar (18 e best b 
— wd ‘cotton xi the | obtained the niana po pay! ha bull of 
mp and R i 
as à prépa by his patent | never 
occasio 
I named this bull “ Duke of Northumberland,” to 
perpetua the eomme that it is to pr judg. 
i t of the prese 
of piede ge that this country, is the 
are indebted for a tribe of cattle which n C. "Coll 
mense i eet me was t th Phu] 
saw, and that his first cow of this tribe was better than 
any he could aprono ce from her, eee be ae best 
| bulls, d And this tribe 
—— OUR: fo 
Dickson, has for 
avo 
re not 4 of Fla 
land F less 
m 
gs c" 
Of this we will merely say that the samples 
we have seen of fine soft short and flossy fibre, 
m to apable 
o | of. Short-horr p of the a neat 
the p resen nt Du ke o centuries; and rU 
e m the E thar of the present Duke, kept 
up the — Ó of this tribe of cattle, by paying " 
We can mer at t breeding—he used, 
eed in 
and — bod 
uoctinz. 
em 
ey 
b Parii o the 
Bakewell was kuown as a sup 
this system I adopted. it 
that it had been previously d and 
knowledge thus acquired by eigo the food con- 
sumed, and ascertaining the ne it mprove ment made, that I 
became enabled t oj 
must be | by their é 
r I have never rair it to fail. 
1 
d her Pins: growitg districts. 
G Irish an 
—— In BLUNDELL’s former 
d in my experience aga 
Fr - M 
hi 
s, but as great 
gton, i e spri 
ball [mnis Boy a heifer and 
as the — ham ox, and eel f for 
h 
ing them i in a sheltered. was un than the si 
— oint, and on being sib ta eh "at following 
—— There is now in progress, and wi ill con- weighed nbov ve 100 stones, of 14lb.p er stone ; - - 
tinue all the ensuing week, a steam eultivation | 
beef. She was uniformly covered with Pepe 
during the ordinary annual agricul- Mr. Boba M DAT yen E of Ch ilinghus 
0 ipsae jurat 
in Short-ho pan 
onns, J ACOB questioned) was a 
! repe l 
that she far exceeded any animal we ba 
erage.  Findi T ven teen of ap were 
extraordinary as t milkers, in e afte 
to purchase AN ut crinem dem us 
my bull Ket d her da 
T 
aR 
NOTES ON Mie abe SHORT-HORNS. 
o. V. " 
THE DUKE OF qM THUMBERLAN 
[The following letter by the late Mr. Bates, of RU LUE A 
appeared on Nov. 14, 1842, in the New Farmers’ Journal.] 
sm — Herewith I send you the pedigree of my Short- 
horn bull * DUKE or NORTHUMBERLAND,” as described 
Ek 
42s. wem money. 
in Lem a € Book ” (1940, in 3d vol), and which is 
m proof ae this tribe of Short t-horns b 
E 
is being g pra now to p peti teaching on the 
poss The farm | 
TT 
e ich it 
scheme of edueation 
ie 
for prae 
alloted it daily dM. to be 
umber _therefo re of pra 
n 
Miet. or r thrios 
structo 
4 a 
mention that “ Dake 
2) one: „third less food 
e thu 04), 
sm pori em "gat 
dp gi (1706, a 
E 
E» 
gr 
i. s P 
Gr Favourite (252), gr gr gr grgr gr gr gr 
id abby See (10), gr ae gr gr gr gr gr gad [bought by k 
E Colling, eedem ei 1784, of + ar er’ Duke of | 
=|. umberland’s agent] by Mr. James Brown’ ull, 
The whole o 
my poss vbi 
| this iy of cattle of the late Cha irles 
then etton, near Darlington, 
| they kd been ín the possession of 
who purchased his original cow, from Stanw 1X, 
No 
ougni to De at w 
of chemical analysis, and laboratory Tet in 
of the agent of the late Duke of rthumberland, and | 
Mr. C. Colling n named her * * Duc CHESS * (w which name 2 
Book 
general,oug 
scientific 
teaching ought to be conducted ne not for 
ists 
* Herd 
ed the reus by. Comet (155) No. 1 
| prepared, I eed 
etd dam. einer sim th, is the oldest cow "i 
and t botanists and 
» | best year-old heifer at the Oxford meeting of the 
it | Royal Agricultural Her 
e of the family, and “Tue DUXE" was her firs 
€ has had eig ht MES ada is (I hope) again in | 
“The — » her eldest e at sihi] sl 
Septem e 14t 1832, es in nth yea |i 
obtained the ich est m at ^e. Yorkshire Society's 
late penas at Mns in August last, w | Sho: 
| of any age, she was ever ited. a 
| daughter, Dudas. 43 d, ob btained the premium as the 
| Hubback's blood, 1423)—a 
er | tribes of Short-horns that were so 
Society of England, in 1839. 
