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partly from the high price asked, and partly because some 
were not for sale. Mr. Crisp obtained £50 for his South- 
down ram, and £10 each for twenty ewes. 
The prices asked for the Fribourg and Schwitz cattle were 
fully equal to that demanded for shorthorns. As much as £68 
was refused for an indifferent bull of the Fribourg breed, and 
he was again taken back to Geneva. Two cows from the same 
district were purchased by a small proprietor within six miles 
of Paris for £31 each, and these were considered a bargain. 
Higher prices were refused for cows of the Schwitz breed, 
and many of these were taken back to Switzerland, a distance 
of about 600 miles ;* and this these cows had accomplished 
on foot, shod, of course, but they were active, and not appa- 
rently injured by the journey. They are structurally well 
adapted for travelling. 
The pigs were in great demand, scarcely one animal return- 
ing to England. The first-prize boar, of the small breed, was 
sold for £45. The same price was obtained for the first-prize 
sow. Mr. G. Jesty, Woodlands, Surrey, sold a sow for £19? 
and an indifferent boar pig for £8. 
Of the attention bestowed upon foreign exhibitors and 
other gentlemen connected with the deputations from the 
three national societies in the United Kingdom, it is impos- 
sible to speak in too high terms. Feted night after night by 
such gentlemen as the Count de Grouchy and the Minister 
of Agriculture ; invited by the Prefect of the Seine to a dress 
ball of the grandest description, and by the French noblesse 
to their country residences to view their estates ; met in 
public and in private with the urbanity and politeness for 
which the French are conspicuous — there are few who par- 
ticipated in all this who will forget their visit to the French 
International Agricultural Exhibition of 1855. 
Indeed, the English deputation felt it impossible to leave 
Paris, after the cordial reception they had experienced, with- 
out expressing, in an address to his Majesty the Emperor, 
their heartfelt thanks for the honour done them ; and as 
several members of the Royal Societies of Agriculture of 
Scotland and Ireland were present at the meeting convened 
