CULTURE'S 
*URAL 
EXCELSIOR 
•41 Park Row, IVew York, 
b!i HutTnlo St., Rochester. 
NEW YORK CITY AND ROCHESTER, N. Y 
WHOLE NO. \\\U 
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY I 
(Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870. by D. D. T. Moork, in the Clerk’s omce of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.] 
pantos to transport twelve cattle from Scot¬ 
land to London, one-half in bis patent trucks 
aud the other half in the ordinary cattle 
wagons in use by the companies. The six 
in patent trucks to be watered and fed; 
those in ordinary wagons to be treated as 
heretofore; both lots to he inspected by 
competent judges before being put in cars, 
and also after their removal from the cars 
at London. 
If this subject is deemed of so much im¬ 
portance in the transit of cattle upon the 
comparatively short routes from Scotland to 
London, how much more Important is it. 
here, when the long lines of railroad com¬ 
munication that are requisite to supply New 
York and Boston are taken into the account. 
desirable.” The Central Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, at about the same time, “ declined to 
make any suggestions as to the feeding of 
animals in transit." 
The Royal Northern Agricultural Society 
at their October meeting, ill response to the 
question of the Council, among other things, 
answers: 11 As it lias been ascertained by ob¬ 
servation and experiment, that cattle, after 
being even forty hours in trucks, will scarce¬ 
ly eat or drink In the trucks, and not even 
for some time after being removed from 
them, this Society docs not see that it would 
be’ practically of any benefit to make pro¬ 
vision for offering cattle on the Journey food 
or water, which would not be consumed, 
but, ou the contrary, disadvantageous by 
lengthening the duration of the transit.” 
The same Society further reports: “ Con¬ 
sidering the animals are deprived of food 
and wider before being slaughtered, it does 
not seem material whether they are deprived 
of the food during transit, or after arrival in 
London.” 
This last suggestion is probably made on 
the supposition that the beeves are to bo 
slaughtered immediately upon or soon after 
their arrival at, market. Patent railway 
tracks or cars have been constructed by a 
Mr. Rr.rn, who challenged the railway corn- 
comfort and healtli of cattle transported by 
railroad. When the distance tlioy arc car¬ 
ried aud their crowded and stifling condi¬ 
tioner rouU are considered, it is not a matter 
of surprise that the subject should he freely 
discussed. 
In England, according to late information, 
it appears that animals transported a certain 
number of hours by rail, in addition to com¬ 
fortable carriages, must have a given quan¬ 
tity of water, hay and meal, which, it is af¬ 
firmed by the advocates of the measure, they 
consume with evident relish and appear at 
market in admirable condition. 
On the other hand, those in charge of the 
trains assert that the cattle neither drink nor 
eat to any great extent, while those to whom 
the catt le are consigned do not testify to any 
material improvement in condition. It is 
further claimed that, as a rule, the ox on his 
travels lias little inclination to either eat or 
drink, and frequently does not recover his 
appetite for many hours after arriving at his 
destination. 
The Farmers’ Club (Edinburgh) reports, in 
answer to a question from the Privy Coun¬ 
cil :—“ With respect to the feeding of cattle, 
the Committee is of opinion that there are 
great difficulties in the adoption of any plan, 
and is not sure the feedige |s necessary or 
The Leicester wether at the right was 
owned by Lord Beners, who lias taken the 
gold medal or cup with his flock five times 
in the last six years at the Smith field Club. 
The prize South Down in the center of 
the group was from Lord Walsingitam’s 
flock. This flock won three first prizes in 
the classes — the £50 plate, the £40 silver 
cup for the best short wools for the sixth 
time in seven years, and the silver medal 
for the best wether in extra stock. 
The fine animal on the left of the group is 
a Leicester South Down cross, exhibited by 
Air. J. B. Overman 
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ENGLISH CHRISTMAS ANIMALS 
From the Illustrated London News wc 
copy portraits of prize animals exhibited at 
the seventy-first Smithfleld Club exhibition, 
The roan ox at the right, of the. picture— 
called the “ Sir Sirloin of 1800 ” by the Eng¬ 
lish paper—was the property of and bred 
by the Earl of Aylcsford. His sire, Viceroy, 
(21,019,) is by one of Col. Towneley’s 
Royal Butterfly bulls. His age is three years, 
two months and eight, days, and his weight 
2,180 pounds. 
The prize eow,“ Princess of Yetholm,” on 
the left, was owned by Sir "Walter Tre¬ 
velyan, and weighed 2,148 pounds. 
The News says:—“The best male and 
female in the yard this year were both Short- 
Horns—a very unusual honor for the breed 
whose bullocks have not been up to the mark 
for some time p:ist, and have been tremen- 
jjpusly beaten by pure and cross-bred steers 
from Scotland." We notice that Devons, 
Hereford*, aud we know not what cross¬ 
breeds, competed with the above mentioned 
animal*. 
The News says :— 
“ Comparing it with others, it would seem 
that the cross always hits host when the 
South Down is the dam aud they come 
South Downs on Leicester frame.” 
The prize pigs in the picture were owned 
by Air. Coate of ITamtnoon, who for the 
eighth time, the News says, “ carried the 
pig cop with his improved Dorsets, thirteen 
months twenty-eight days old, and most 
beautiful matches. They were as alike as 
three nuts.” 
GALLOWAY CATTLE 
A correspondent at Knoxville, Tenn., 
desires the Rural to give a history of the 
Mu ley COW. 
They are known as the Galloway polled cat¬ 
tle, so called from being natives of the Gallo¬ 
way district, Scotland. They are described by 
Youatt " as straight and broad in the back, 
round in the ribs, broad in the loins, with¬ 
out any large, projecting hock-bones, long 
In the quarters and deep in the chest, hut 
CATTLE TRANSIT BY RAIL, 
Recently the labors of the humane have 
been directed to the improvement of the 
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