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=—, med on Tuesday, the 10th.) Mr. Crosbie, of Ardfe: t Abbey, RE, count y g lled 
pring Cat EN ’ a the ret geo pona of attrac- | for “Lord Darnley, > ere co = a feel in th ] Re great 
Refore proceeding ‘bition presented, we died ee os inns a says he was ga by a bull of that | Smouk = wool a a uld that tl 
ion W e prs Ti It is n ark | name] an animal which in many r espects we prefer to | likely to co ontinue that perka very 1 
Sy ree yal Dublin Society i $6 i vey peA dietin: | “ Soub: ador”. He has better turned shoulder-blade: 3, | 
ee of 27. | fuller and in every way better formed ribs, and is | contained in his paper ; but he could have wish ri ee: 
vies E row a harge which, | well-filled in most parts. In this Secti ri Mr. Majori- gentlema n had told them a little more abou t w hat he 
year, bes es ts, is preposterous. There a a large | banks, Bushy ae we gee i as highly lf ; and 
a agricntli from Parliament, a both sources the | for “ aig Mogul,” oft the ‘Great Mogul.” | he hoped that before the discussion terminated he 
ual § gran aes very considera The “ Young Mogu al” Inns admirably; and bibl wou ne ate hi elgg rd 7 using siei ed "seep over 
Society’s notwithstanding that its. ‘agricultural is at| grown he acquires a Pag more depth of rib will pro |an nd o again. Were Mr. Howar ogo o Norfo lk, 
_ Now, sate ost useful section of the Society, |a smart and valuable mal. he waa 
this momen and hibited ; but in „Bedfordshire the state >] pill was „totally 
md the sE A he scale of prizes for cattle is | in Section II Short horn Bulls calved in 1858.—To Lord | diff 5 and he (Mr. Coleman) was obliged to own, 
heartily i ay Indeed, to descend from the | Talbot de Mal in thi though he did it "tate that he was a convert t 
meagre in t e f the standing of the Society and its | “Clydesdale,” pan h was rind by o tora of | his way of thinki 
consideration ock, is like | Dunlavin, county Wicklow. “Clyde ? was manke d Mr. Th homas (Lidlington) wished to point out the 
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| were much indebted to Mr. Howard for ‘the information 
i . th ize list we make out the pape ana Improvement Society of Ireland ; i it | especially young farmers, that becau se certain breeds of 
ow egrencee a ae is enough to say that „he has not fallen off in any of his | sheep were of greater weight than others, they must 
following Pei wage 3 Mr. Lyndsay, of Kylee therefore be necessarily more profita It a 
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115 Money Prizes sia ta arewh ice ee snd Down, won 2d prize in this class with “ Myster, oce his mind, whilst listening to the 
: 2d iscussion, that a long series of exper riments hav 
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Silver Medals ni f which we remarked at th ; y 
Gold Medals s. > = still applicable) that aes “points” are of average |Consort’s Flemish farm. Year after “year Gedera] 
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R lDu ae rather coarse, and his head can scarcely be said to | su by the anne Southdown and the pure-bred 
The paltry money prizes of the ee aa iety deserve fnna favourable menti ion. The shoulder is also | Hampslire — ns Basen he arrived at the conclusion 
can exercise little influence ock breeders; and a little | that Har ate as much as eight Downs. 
until the Society deals A hat class in the In Se tion “TIL, erga horn Bulls calved in 1857, the | The eiti weight, ‘therefore, ick so many Hampshire 
liberal spirit as the oth ricultural societies, 1st prize was awarded to “ Dr. McHale,” the property |b breeders prided t s compared with the 
we should consider it would ie wise to substitute of Mr. Ba rnes, , Moymalty, county Mea th, by ae — oa 
“certificates” or silver rada for the 22. and 32., and to | ,, “ Do ze ctor d. ahd fox w hom th O nnak haz 
employ the money so econom ised on some of the other 4} , gained some distinction. 
Mr. Fisher Hobbs said the po cine for the farmer’s 
sore. iy ahem was, what steel of sheep would pay af oer 
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boly o raen nate sei npetition e | wit aut rasa Sone brad le is not perfect ; but, taking | short feng te lel vools apr ade ie tabs. const 
of stringent in its conditions for miei = ae him all in all, he is far and ames l hi- | they could not decide. that night. His own opinion 
rs | than liberal in its prizes. Dest, an 7 pe vi p bited on this occasion—the best reland ; one of | was that th 
“bulls entitled to the we a Ae hi, sc est Of | the best in the Unite d Kingdom “Stans gerade of bre cross judiciously managed. e first 
all the prize bulls—the e ene or whi Se ge is square and even; has well formed and well set | point Snide tad struck him in Mr. Hove tis cate 
excellence are gold an and silver modals—tmust each serve shoulders; a good m savtline head sagt eek ond in | was the statement that the cross-breeds of this country 
to tenant farmers in Ireland, at 10s. each cow.” = ' A silver short has developed those points which. give excel olding 
h r lence to a bull. He carries with him to Westland had become proportionably ny pjeni ‘If that were 
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which he was beaten on two for casions. | sheep had decreased since me introduction Pa se use of 
ere the chances of success in Short- HOFA c abe el artificial manures. Now hose manures 
= the apipila aB is ell as at 3 Koalat 2 yoe ayes fickle. This time last year, under oe value which they were obnaiileved to be, and ‘tay w 
tbs os is hav zp tha Seoul bat Ble Short-ho ori nd under the auspices of the same Society, “ Dr. | being introduced ee uch an extent that some “Persons 
d also consider that the. seco see than | McHale” was judged and found defective. The second laid out as much a H.a n acre for them, the increased 
place was fone awarded him at Dundalk last July ; but gs wa 
| y i a“ the balance order of | augmented supply of thes ep the land. 
e rejoice ice ipat i it_is | was not inclined to tink hereon ‘that the folding o of 
“Sir a | sheep had de dithis breeds 
a AET with were better adapted to mate than to a 
common sense, irrespective aye Dres of the talative 
fact, 
The "rouge eey of a an eish agricultural show, | vith «Dr » 
he stand ison certain year were more usefi 
Ft 1 Dublin Society's, is the | With | Dr. McHale.” An anatomical examination | He had been a Aa Sot himself t Petal: 
= | Short-horn classes. pay igs ee ourselves to the mere Prale = ratay bad; i nd FE aH 
1859 ig60, „tail a critical eye would fi me ipat at which to yon The m 
ZE vt aes 3 (op notwithstanding a substantial anim al, 
As There were yearling lls.. 84 120 ae reversal ite ecision in the case of t Asaz but he rager that ava must 
ay oe ieont Ae A ira aia i mals betrays IE es Sk point in our "ase of fewn at; animals to suit the and 
f: E fi 1% a adjudication, Iti is quite evident even to those who are | climat 
228 258 tside the “ ring,” pe ther i no standard pns of Mr. R. Bond, sine Melford, might state pe he 
; nts. We adverted to this ormer occasion. W and of 
par "staal! a cnr ta 1 the lire a aa point to it again in ‘the opo wF induci file e most profitable system. In fact, 
merel poos peer fae | inteFested in the Pade to give it that area ien which ie lool skean ien nit be as a matter of bei gis | or blood, 
judge of the progress of # show of Short- The its _ mor a deserves. A saa interests involved are symmetry or size, but simply as one o pa What 
jurease consists of yearling bulls; and we are re- |} aan liai ia eS p ? rpa an - 5 
Tucta 5 ner ai . A quantity of meat and wool for a given Taaa, of food. 
<a wero Tatagal hp bar! ih arn ‘it a <i Agrivaltural C Committee of the Royal tng my Living amongst Southdown breeders he had a 
reflect li ; s i nd | thei nions, ani ps 
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one gentleman proposes f pe er prejudiced in 
| we eleet sam because he is highly i pe Bae favour of the Southdown breed. After giving the pure 
ater TON whose may have been suggested breed a trial, he picked out the best Southdown ewes in 
sitio, | gentleman ne ewe Sy him by a Aa gentleman paer SNE aa vd a ae — men 
A o may perhaps feel an interest in the success with; the result was, that he obtained a lamb whic 
ae aa su Booth blood, which every intelligent me on did not sell freely and readily in the market. He then 
<reditable to the Society. and to the skill and enterprise knows to be Mr. Torr’s favourite breedin ng. Mr. Torr| made a change, still using the Southdown ewe an 
d kik Shortchoc, ve Are 2 The competition, this | becomes a judge, and him, The 1 having the same laag hiring a Leicester tup, and the change was decidely 
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> had at aia interest, ms Sark wi case we pu eriin and over again; and tup, and the conclusion at which he bad. arrived from 
what is n , thos pEr adopt a a particular class of hat upon heavy lands the Cotswold 
pt. $ = ged by self-interest to combine, we | was greatly superior t to the, Leicester. But he did not 
et oF semar = Succes will say legitimately, t to raise that class—that blood or | stop there. He a Hampshir hire ewe and a 
a e aa Bais. Co, | line of Short-horns—as hi gh as possible in publio esti- | Cotswold tup; an aud. although he wi 
mation, Tt occurs adil interests of Short- E that i cole ue ab 
ver | horn breeding absolutely rotate that E o, 
| this kind should not be carried so to infiuence 
| public awards. 
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on this 1 S bet: —Mr. Cole of and Dona ri igh in written | 
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Holkham, mee had been a cross breeder to him 
: f ll this year; Sean Di aare sate oe bet 
oe in 12 m st seven or eight years, and. the the practice oe fan Mia ay eerd ` k a “pe n sre re 
iy. The "S = the best male animals his | This evidently showed that the system was attende 
i cig. ier tat Se fon i a ne A et, n iee uld depend upon what with considerable cee He further stated that the 
and delivered u th oc) sien eP rig Avatitaide OF crossi ng the | | deaths among his ewes had amounted only three. 
y by the sam e Schibitor belore i be tree ge ha ay that this an imals did not The experiments which been made by Mr. Lawes 
: Propestpeavely by: th me Exhibitor before it becomes 
7 td pi i Sin has been awarded t | 
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reeds, in the winter, scarcely bore ont the remarks which ‘allen ne 
nie light e A ten nos wer a ayi k the Mr, Thomas as to the quantity of food consumed b; 
