Grazing Farms. 
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Tho preceding remarks apply exclusively to tlie beef produced 
on the grass lands ; regular stall feeding I'orms but a very small 
item in Bucks farming-. There are some gentlemen, and a few 
enterprising tenant-farmers, who graze largely in the winter. 
Tlie most extensive stall feeding is to be seen at Fawley Court, 
where there is a magnificent shed, capable of containing 140 head 
of cattle. This shed Is particularly deserving of notice. A roof 
with tlu'ee spans covers the whole building, and the cattle are 
ranged in double rows, with passages between them. In the one, 
at ttie head of the cattle is a tramway, and a truck containing tlie 
food is' pushed along it. Each pair of bullocks is stalled off, 
every ox has a separate manger, and there are troughs for the 
watei-, which is pumped in by the steam-engine. Last autumn 
this splendid apartment — It really is no shed — was not full, but 
90 superb Hereford oxen were stalled. They were then being fed 
on swedes, hay-chaff, and barley-meal. Tlie turnips were grated 
quite small, and mixed with the other food, and so given to the 
cattle. When oilcake Is used. It Is ground and steamed, and then 
mixed In like manner. At Latimer there are some excellent 
steers, which evidently, like those at Fawley, were the produce 
of Hereford fair. Some of these were stalled, some grazed In 
open yards, and all fed on sliced swedes, meal, and hay. At 
Snelson farm beyond Olney, and again at Shardeloes to the south, 
and In many other spots, were several good lots of cattle ; but 
winter grazing is the exception, not the rule, in Bucks. 
There are many herds of pedigree shorthorns In the county : 
at Wiltons Park are some first-rate animals ; and at Shardeloes 
and MIssenden Abbey there are also daii'ies of very excellent 
cows. There was formerly a celebrated herd at Latimer, but it 
has very much deteriorated of late by the large admixture of 
Alderney blood. Passing to the borders of Bedfordshire there 
are some very useful cows at Southcott ; and those at Claydon 
House are particularly deserving of commendation. The gigantic 
ox, which attracted so much attention at the Smithfield Show in 
1853, was the produce of this herd. But no stock, as to numbers 
and purity, can be compared to those at Lllllngstone Lovell, where 
are some truly magnificent animals. Here, and at all the herds 
mentioned, numerous calves are reared ; and there is an annual 
sale of stock at Lllllngstone, and also at Latimer. It is a pity 
that the former herd is not more extensively shown, for almost in 
every instance in which they have been exhibited they have been 
successful. The superb yearling bull, which carried off the 
Society's prize at the Norwich Meeting, was bred at Lilllng- 
stone. 
Butter. — Buckinghamshire Is certainly the greatest butter pro- 
ducing county of England, and the number of cows kept within its 
