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of Lincolnshire farming, that there the cattle are looked upon 
only as " machines whereby to make manure," and upon the same 
principle does the Notts farmer act when he considers his straw, 
which increases year by year with the improved condition of his 
farm, as a "vast number of tubes," whose use is to be filled with 
liquid manure, and carried out to the support of his future crops. 
Beasts are bred to a greater or less extent on most farms, the 
only breed being, with few exceptions, the Durham, or as they 
come now to be styled, "the Improved Short-Horns," of which 
the county can boast some of the best specimens in the kingdom. 
Earl Spencer's celebrated herd at Wiseton is too well known to 
require further notice here than to state, that we believe his 
Lordship continues to feel an undiminished interest in that de- 
partment of farming. Mr. Parkinson's herd of Leyfields, near 
Newark, has also acquired a high character, to which it will be 
admitted to be fully entitled, by all who have seen it. Mr. Park- 
inson is owner of the celebrated bull, " Sir Thomas Fairfax," to 
which was awarded the first prize, as the best short-horn bull, by 
the Royal Agricultural Society in 1842. Mr. Watson, of Walk- 
eringham, has in the course of a few years attained great emi- 
nence as a breeder of short-horn beasts, and is in possession of a 
bull, " Lord Adolphus Fairfax," of perhaps equal merit with his 
sire, " Sir Thomas Fairfax." These herds are well known 
amongst breeders, but the county has many others of less fame, 
though of distinguished merit, to which we only allude for the 
purpose of showing that their influence must have been very great 
on the general stock of the district. The most cursory observer 
has only to walk through any cattle fair in the county in the 
present day, to be struck with the improved appearance of the 
stock of all kinds, compared with what could have been seen a 
few years ago. 
Calves are reared both by the pail, and by sucking the dam, or 
a foster-mother ; but the point which appears to require most 
attention in the perfect rearing of any kind of stock, consists in 
promoting without any check, a continued progression after wean- 
ing, without any loss of condition at that time, or indeed at any 
time afterwards. An instance of the effect of such a mode of 
treatment was given us some time ago by Mr. Brooke, in a large 
lot of bullocks, fed on the farm of the Hon. John Simpson, at 
Babworth, which averaged when about two years and one month 
old, upwards of 60 stone each of 14 lbs. to the stone. 
Pigs. 
Those who have pursued farming more as an amusement than 
from any profit to be derived from it, are observed generally to 
have evinced a greater disposition to improve the breed of pigs 
