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Avhite. Mangolds are only grown to a very limited extent, and 
only one or two acres are annually under potatoes, as the Isle 
of Axholme, with its deep black loam, is looked on as the potatoe 
garden of the district. Chevalier barley is the only sort sown, 
and in dry seasons it will weigh 57 lbs. to the bushel. White 
oats have been used, but the Scotch potatoe answers best. 
The sand land broken up from seeds, and not strong enough for 
wheat, has grown good crops of oats of 12 stones to the sack, or 
42 lbs. per bushel, and oats have also followed barley with a good 
result where the seeds did not grow. Chidham wheat was used 
at first, but it grew tired of the land, and black heads appeared. 
The weight and quality remained, but the bulk fell off. SheriflP s 
horned wheat answered for a time, but it came at last too 
delicate and light in the straw. It retained its quality, and 
made 10s. more than good ordinary red wheat, and one lot of it 
last year touched 86s. The Essex rough chaff (white) has, how- 
ever, been most uniformly successful. 
For 12 years during the late Mr. Parkinson's life Leyfields had 
a great name for its herd of pedigreed shorthorns. It was a pur- 
suit in which he took great delight, and he, like his son, frequently 
judged both at the Royal Agricultural meetings, and those of the 
Smithfield Club. Cossack, of the Booth blood, and a calf at the 
late Mr. Richard Booth's Studley sale, and Lord Spencer's Orator, 
which went back to No. 19 at Mason's sale, were his earliest bulls, 
and Cassandra was the most famous matron of the herd. She 
was the dam of Cramer, Collard, and Clementi, the former of 
which has won the first prize for aged bulls at the Shrewsbury 
Royal for Mr. J. B. Stanhope, M.P. Mr. Parkinson took the same 
place at Bristol in 1842 with "Sir Thomas Fairfax" (5196), bred 
by Mr. Whitaker, and at Northampton in 1846 with that pretty 
bull " Captain Shaftoe" (6883), bred by Mr. Lax. His price was 
320 guineas at the Trusthorpe sale, and he was sold at the 
Leyfields' sale in 1847 for 140 guineas. This fall in price was 
owing to his uncertain temper. There were a large number of 
G Wynne heifers in the herd, and one of them had twins by 
Cossack which proved the first and second prize calves at the 
Yorkshire Show, and made 135 guineas. The bull trade was 
always pretty brisk, and principally with Mons. St. Marie and 
the French Government. " Captain Shaftoe," who was only in 
Mr. Parkinson's possession for a year, was a red without any 
white, rather feminine in the head, and rather short in his hind 
quarters, but with good shoulders and fine loins. He was rather 
small, and got remarkably compact good heifers, from which 
some of Mr. Majoribanks' prize winners sprang. He had a 
remarkable dislike to a black coat, and this peculiarity nearly 
cost Mr. Parkinson his life on the sale day. 
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