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-11 Park Row, New York. 
82 Bitflnlo St., Rochester 
NEW YORK CITY ANI) ROCHESTER. N. Y 
$:*.tx» PER YEAR. 
Single ,\o„ Eight Cents 
WHOLE NO. HUT 
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 ,1869 
the United States for the Southern District of Now York.] 
fBntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1 HOT, by I). I>. T. Muoiik, in the Pork's Oillce of tho District Co urt of 
with age; and, if the face is gray, it should 
shade off to white towards the nose. Rams 
have generally two or three curls to their 
horns, and the absence* of horn in a female is 
not a desirable sign. There is a t ribe among 
them which has fourteen ribs, and preferred, 
When It can he got, from its remarkable 
power of bearing hunger. Some of tho rams 
have quite a mane of hair, a point in which 
‘ Young Ilero’ does not full short.” 
The Kerry hull, “ King of Kerry," and 
cow, “ Kathleen Mavourueeu," in the fore¬ 
ground, belong to the Rev. John Macdona 
of Hilhre House, West Cheshire, and are re¬ 
presented us good specimens of their hardy 
little Irish race. They were bred atValcntla, 
in Ireland, and hence are “to the manor 
born." The Kerrys appear to be gaining in 
popularity. 
The Hardwicke ram, “ Young Hero,” also 
sold to go abroad. Air. Tu doe's “ Diadem,” 
(which beat her,) in the right-liand Corner, is 
a great beauty, and with some of that Chief¬ 
tain blood in her pedigree which the late vet¬ 
eran breeder, Mr. Monkrousk, loved so well. 
The Long-Horn hull, with such long, 
curved horns, near the right hand corner, is 
the property of Mr. Chapman, of Upton, 
“ who generally astonishes the natives at 
these seasons by producing a choice bull 
Royal Agricultural Society’s ring." This 
animal is the property of Mr. Samuel 
Wiley, of Bransby, the father of Sliovt- 
Ilorn breeders. Mr. Wiley, says the Lon¬ 
don News, “ is now* in his ninety-third year, 
and bids fair, in all seeming, to put in for a 
hundred. Flitch, fleece and flank have all 
been the objects of his care. He was inti¬ 
mate with, and, so to speak, a contemporary 
of the Brothers Colling.” 
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ENGLISH PRIZE ANIMALS 
Out illustration represents a fine group of 
animals which were awarded prizes at the 
recent show of the Royal Agricultural So¬ 
ciety, held in Manchester, England. The 
The middle and most prominent figure is 
the Short-Horn bull “ Earl of Derby," 
awarded the first prize iu (as an English 
paper remarks) “ perhaps the finest lot of 
twenty-nine old bulls that ever met in the 
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