FOR THE 
Far-ill, Garden, and JrloriseliolcL. 
"AttltlOULTUItE IS THE MOST HEALTHFUL, MOST USEFUL, AN'1» MOST NOBLE EMPLOYMENT OF MAN.” — Washington. 
ORAMGE-JUDD COMPANY, ) ESTABLISHED IN 1842, ( $1 ' 50 PE;E annum > Isr ADVANCE. 
PUBLISHERS AND proprietors. j- * -j SINGLE NUMBER, 15 CENTS, 
Office, 215 BROADWAY. ) Published also in German at $1.50 a Year. (iCopies for § 5 ; 1 0 for $ 12 ; 2 0 or more, $ 1 each. 
Entered according to Act of Congress, in August., 1873, by the Orange Judd Company, at the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
VOLUME XXXII.—No. 9. 
NEW YORK, 
1873. 
NEW SERIES—No. 320. 
[COPS RIGHT SEOUr.ED.] 
THE ROMAN CATTLE-DRIVER .— After A Picture BY Dither. — Drawn and Engraved for the American Agriculturist. 
Under the title “ Picador Remain,” Mr. 
Kncedler, to whom the public are indebted for 
many fine works of art, has published a large 
colored print of a painting by Jules Didier. 
We reproduce this, by permission, not only be¬ 
cause it is a very spirited piece of drawing, but 
for the glimpse it gives of the rural maimers 
and customs in other countries. The picturesque 
costume, with the armed leggings, are such as 
we must cross the ocean or go into Spanish- 
American countries to find; and the effect of it 
is much heightened by brilliant and strongly 
contrasted colors. The ponderous saddle and 
the murderous bit are peculiar to south Euro¬ 
pean countries, and they are to be found in a 
modified form in South America and Mexico. 
In the harried, frantic ox that is rushing into a 
slough to escape its persecutor we see the pro¬ 
totype of our Texan cattle, the long lxorns of 
which are now familiar in our cattle markets. 
The driver is armed with a stout staff, one end 
of which is shod with iron. This is the “jptca,” 
the pike, or lance, and the one who uses it is 
called a “picador.” In the savage state in 
which the animals of southern countries are 
allowed to remain it is perhaps necessary for 
one who goes among them to be provided with 
means of defense against a vicious animal; but. 
the Italian or Spanish cattle-driver is nothing 
if not brutal, and in his eyes catlle seem to 
be made only to he tortured. In countries 
where bull-fights are a popular amusement 
we can hardly look for kindness to animals. 
