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At this time Mr. Torr was quite vigor- 

 ous, uu.l held on fo his habit of giving 

 orders from his bedroom window at the 

 dawn of every morning. I may add that 

 the time was winter and during February 

 snows He little thought that his life 

 was so near to its close, and that the Sep- 

 tember of 1875 wouM witness the disper- 

 sion of the great herd,' the result of his 

 long and arduous labours. He did not 

 foresee that his herd was to be so highly 

 valued by the breeding public of the 

 Shorthorn world as to realise the great 

 sum which represented the total achieved 

 on that eventful day. Had he lived to 

 be present he would have seen that Short- 

 horns had not been unprofitable. Colonel 

 Tomline, the owner of the estate, kindly 

 lent Riby Hall to Mr. John Torr, M.P. 

 for Lievrpool, brother of Mr. William 

 Torr, for the sale, which was conducted 

 by Mr. Thornton. This enabled the 

 member for Liverpool to entertain a large 

 company of some thirty breeders, com- 

 prising the elite of the Booth party and a 

 few leading Bates' supporters. A very 

 large company assembled around the sale 

 rin<^ the number being estimated at 1,500, 

 and excitement ran high. The biddings 

 were often furious, and money appeared 

 to be of little value in the ndnds of the 

 bidders j the favourite animals were to 

 be secured at, as it seemed at the moment, 

 any price. For several of the heifers, as 

 soon as they entered the ring, the opening 

 bid was 1,000 gns. each. A superb cow 

 of the Flower tribe. Mountain Flower, tell 

 to the Rev. Thomas Staniforth at 1,500 

 gns., and her beautiful daughter, Heather 

 Flower, accompanied her to Storrs Hall 

 at 1,000 gns. A wealthy and very hand- 

 some heifer of the Studley Anna sort, 

 named Riby Empress, went at 2,100 gns. 

 to Mr. T. C. Booth, of Warlaby, amid 

 much cheering for the man and his old 

 historic home. Several of the Brights, 

 also descendants of the Studley Anna by 

 Pilot 496, made very high prices to go to 

 Warlaby, which was enriched by a dozen 

 females from tliis great Aylesby collection. 

 For the lovely rich roan heifer calf Riby 

 Marchioness Mr. Talbot Crosbie, of 

 county Kerry, paid over .£ 1 ,300. He did 

 not intend to pay so large a price for this 

 youngster, but he had bid for many lots 

 and had be-n left hopelessly behind, and 

 now he determined to secure one Riby, 

 cost what she might, for this was the 



great and memorable dispersion sale of 

 the herd of a most illustrous breeder- 

 there could be no recurrence of the event. 



The sale was in one respect quite 

 unique, inasmuch as everything offered 

 was bred on the farm by the late owner. 



The average for eighty head was over 

 £500 apiece, and the grand total exceeded 

 £42,000. 



Such was the result of the greatest, the 

 most successful sale Shorthorns of Booth 

 blood ever held in the world. 



This Proportions of a 

 Horse w 



TN an address on the symmetry of 

 i horses, Mr. R. A. Kam3ay,an American 

 veterinarian, quoted from the authority 

 Borngelat the following rules, which, in 

 general way, constitute the foundation of 

 the symmetrical proportions. The head 

 is taken as the standard of measurement : 

 "1. Three and a half geometrical 

 lengths of the head give the entire height 

 of the horse, counting from the top of 

 the forelock to the ground upon which 

 he stands, provided the head is well 



carried. „ , , , i 



"2. Three lengths of the head equal 

 the height of the body from the top of 

 the withers to the ground ; the length of 

 the same body from point of shoulder to 

 the point of the buttock inclusive. 



" 3 A whole head gives the length of 

 the neck from the summit of the withers 

 to the posterior part of the poll, measur- 

 ing^ in a straight line ; the height of the 

 shoulders, from the top of the withers to 

 the point of the elbow ; the thickness of 

 the body, from the middle of the ab- 

 domen to the middle of the back ; the 

 width of the body, from one side to the 

 other." 



Mr B Warwick, 310, Bulwer Street, states 

 tVit 'he' has used glycerinated bile up to six 

 moiths old with gSo^l effect. la the seventh 

 month it lost its colour, and he threw it away. 



AccordiDK to Professor Blundell, of the Royal 

 Agricultural College, the pig, if P'operly man- 

 ^.rld will do imst towards paying the rent, and 

 he recommends farmers to keep a ^ many as pos- 

 sible. The average life of a bacon pig of the 

 8 ze now required is 30 wesks, while that of a 

 sheep 60 weeks. . If well bred, ai.d fed wi h 

 suitable food, the pig will increase from 101b. to 

 nib per week. For that increase he will require 

 from 51b. to 5^1b of dry food per day. 



