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M i^nilC^AN AGrKlc;;UI^TUillST 
Th© C^u^dii Lynx.—(Ay/ij? CftwKhn.sts,) 
riiis j) 0 ( uliur oiit-likc uninml was once com¬ 
mon ihirin'x severe winters in all the Xorthern 
Stales. Ami, probably on account of the 
scareny of jmey in the forest.s of Canada, whicli 
art* its congenial liannts, simple individuals arc 
now oeea'^ionally shot; but it is very timid, 
avoidin'.; men ami 
preyim.; only upon 
birds ami small, or 
defenceless anmials. 
Tin ■ resemblance be¬ 
tween it ami the 
Wiid-cat or Bay 
Bynx, (f.i/nx riif'/.■<), 
'■> {piite striking', but 
it is much lancer 
a!id of ditferent hab¬ 
its, The C.inatla - . 
Lynx is a’oout 3 feet 
lorn; to the tai!,\\ hieh 
is seaie. ’y G inehe.s 
Ion;; and mneh con¬ 
cealed in fur. Tiie 
head i.s cat-like, ami 
the ears are 1 iiye, 
triangular ami tip¬ 
ped wiih a tuft of 
Co, use black hair-. 
The geneial color is ; _ 
C'oudocl gray, .Some- - 
what red.'.ish and ' ^ 
wavy on the back ami 
,<-idi'S, and of a lighter 
gray on the belly. The legs arc robu-st, and the 
feet imnien-ely large, appearing especially so in 
winter when covered with long fur. 'J'he track 
in the snow being :il»out 9 inches long—almost 
like tied of a be.ir. The lon'g, dense, fine fur is 
much prized, and for this the Lyn.x is hunted, 
being trapped with ea.se in the almost inaccessi¬ 
ble .-oliiudes in which it abounds. The creature 
is a great coward, 
never attacks men, 
and Avheii cornered . . ■ 
does not nitike a ' 
hard fight, if any, - 
and is easily kille 1. 
Its large and sot'tly 
padded feet pre.-ei;; 
BO muell .SUllbee 
that even a very 
sliglit cnist upon the 
snow suo{)orls it, 
and it is llius ei:- 
abled to follow stic- 
oes-sfully tho.-e ani¬ 
mals whose progress 
(s impe<Ied hy snow. 
^Vhen small giiiie 
(>ecome3 scaree, i: 
occasionally ao'ac .s 
deer, amt, o'.\in--; 
to the same e.iiisr, 
sometimes i' is 'iri'.- 
en hy hnuger to the 
vicinity of liumtin 
liahiltitioMS, and the 
sheep, pigs, and 
calves fall victims to its rap;U'ity. Tlieic is 
no rca.son to suppose lliat lynxes li.ivc acuter 
vi.sion tlian many other animals of the feline 
family. They have large eyes, capable, like those 
of the common cet, of grc.at contraction and 
c.xpansion of the pupils, so Unit they can use 
them well in the full glare of the sun upon the 
snow, and in dark nights also. The animal 
swims and climh.s well, exhibits some stiategy j 
m catching its prey, hut, on tlie whole, has lit¬ 
tle cunning or sagacitj^ This is especially 
evinced hy the blundering way in which it falls 
into traps, or is caught under “dead falls,” 
which are logs, or blocks of stone or ice, sup¬ 
ported by a “ figure 4,” or other trip, and which 
fall, when the trip or trigger is touched, killing 
by their weiglit any animal caught beneath thenn 
Tim Bunker on Horse-Racing at Fairs. 
Mu. Editou— You will recollect that I had 
my say on this subject some years ago, when the 
thing was first started. I worked about as hard 
as any body to get our County Agricultural So¬ 
ciety agoing. It cost me a year’s labor riding, 
walking, wriling, and elbowing folks around 
CANADA LYNX {Lyiix Cuuadcii.sU.) 
Our artist has presented us also the picture of 
the European Lyn.x, (the Felis Lynz of Linnseus). 
It is an animal of the same genus, and so close¬ 
ly resembles our Lynx that Linnaeus regarded 
both as of the same species. It ranges over the 
cold parts of Europe and Asia, and we know no 
reason why it should not also extend across 
Beliring.s Straits into North America. Itshahits 
EUROPEAN LYNX. 
arc much like the Canada Lynx, and its coloi 
similar, hut perhaps a little more inclined to red¬ 
dish-brown, and more brightly marked. Both 
liave a peculiar galloping run when in open 
ground, shown in the engraving of tlie Canada 
Lynx, and when confined exhibit a surly, snarly 
and utterly unfriendly disposition. It has few 
enemies, (besides man), and multiplies fast, 
thouo-h the females have hut 2 young a year. 
before I could get 
’em waked up to it. 
Some folks are made 
all breechin, and it 
takes a locomotive 
to get ’em started. 
And when I got the 
thing on its legs, I 
hated to see it start 
off in the wrong di¬ 
rection. We had 
grand fairs for a few 
years, before the 
liorse fever struck 
on. Every kind of 
slock was brought 
out, and there was 
no end to the show 
of vegetables, fruits, 
farm products, and 
liome manufactures. 
We had sometimes 
ten thousand people 
out to see the show, 
and we made money 
enough to get up 
buildings, and have 
first-rate accommodations upon the grounds 
for exhibitors. Tlien the J’oung folks thought 
they knew everything, and nothing would satisfy 
’em but fancy liorses and racing. I opposed it 
then, and have been dead set agin it ever since. 
I shouldn’t have said anything more about it 
now', if the tiling-hadn’t a come up at the last 
meeting of our County Society, when we was ar¬ 
ranging for the fair 
next fall. You see 
the horse lias been 
gaining all the while 
since he got on the 
track, until more 
premiums were of¬ 
fered for fast horses 
than for everything 
else. Of course folks 
who liadnotliingbut 
fine cattle, fruits, or 
vegetables to show, 
did not care to come 
to a fair where ev¬ 
erybody was horse 
crazy, and would’nt 
see anything else, if 
it Avas as bright as 
the sun in the heav¬ 
ens. You see a good 
many of ’em had got ^ 
disgusted with rac¬ 
ing, when they saw 
it was ruining every¬ 
thing else, and spoil¬ 
ing our fairs. The 
last two or three years they have been pretty 
slim, and might as well have been called horse 
races. Jockeys and gamblers took possession 
of the track, and had everything their own way. 
As soon as we got together, I see we were go¬ 
ing to have a pretty fight on the horse question. 
All the horse men were there, with Cicero Smith 
at their head, and the old fogies were around 
pretty thick also, Cicero Smith is the son of 
