710 CATTLE AND DAlEY FARMING. 



BRITISH CATTLE STATISTICS. 



INCLOSURES IN CONSUL-GENERAL MERRITT'8 REPORT. 



The following is a copy of a printed circular sent from the consulate-general at Lon- 

 don to leading cattle breeders and raisers in England. The answers to this circular con- 

 stitute the "inclosures" referred to in the consul-general's report; and such portions of 

 these inclosures as are not incorporated in said report, and are otherwise considered of 

 practical value to American agriculturists, are herewith published : 



Decembee 24, 1883. 

 Sib: The favor of information on the following subject would much oblige, to enable 

 the Department of State, Washington, to locate such foreign domesticated animals as 

 have been for along time profitably. bred and reared in their native homes, under similar 

 conditions in the United States. Please forward the same in the inclosed addressed 

 envelope to 



H. KAINS JACKSON. 



District; — 



Altitude. Mean Tkmp. Temp, in Scmmee. Wintbb. 



Soil — Alluvial 



Loam 



Clay 



Sandy, &e., &c. 

 Subsoil Geological strata 



Pastdeagb, Natueal oe AETiraciAi Gkassbs:— 



How stock is housed ? 

 Methods of feeding? 



Do. breeding? 



Do. marketing? 



Name of Beeed: — 



Size at maturity. Cow. Bull. Ox. 



Live weight. 



Annual a erage yield ofmilk /Pounds of butter. 



' in pounds or quarts. 1 Pounds of cheese. 



Oeigin of Beeed: — 



Description, and how long pure bred ? 



Color. 



Maturity. Weight. Age. 



"Product in labour. 



Meat. Milk. Cheese. 



General eemaeks.— The above questions are furnished rather as hints than for 

 categorical answers; and you are asked here to offer any information and suggestions, 

 and in any form you may wish to write them, in respect to horses, sheep, or pigs, aa 

 well as cattle. The object of this circular is that the American agriculturists and 

 stock-breeders may learn the best varieties of stock to purchase from abroad as adapted 

 to their own special localities. 



THE SANDRINGHAM HERD. 



, [Inclosure No. 1 in Consul-General Merritt's report.] 



Stock is. housed at night; cows and heifers always runout. The feeding is chiefly 

 hay, mixture of best linseed, and cotton^from 3 to 7 pounds. Heifers come in with first 

 calves about thirty-two months old. 



As a breeding herd the milk is entirely devoted to calf-raising. 



The present herd were started by the Prince of Wales in 1877. 



The Prince of Wales has a herd of Bates & Knightley Short-horns and one of Booth, 

 and in both cases the cattle are treated as a tenant farmer would do, the object being 



