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VOL,. XXXVII. No. 
WHOLE No. 1504 
PRICE FIVE CENTS 
82.00 PER YEAR. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, 
In the year 1878, b y the Rural Publishing 
The sales have long been looked to as famish- estin 
ing well-bred Bates animals of rare breeding the 1 
and the herd has the merit of having been bred the t 
at home and not purchased. A selection of ani- favoi 
mals from this herd was sold at auction on the Oxfo 
18th of September, and the Agricultural Gazette, breed 
m comment upon the herd previous to the sale, cows 
gives very attractive portraits of four of the ani- withi 
mals, which we reproduce. The dissertations best t 
upon the merits of particular animals and their pure! 
influence in the herds would hardly bo ..» 
miliar nam«» of A -neriean-bred bulls occurri^/ 
in the pedigrees of these fine animals. 
The heads are strikingly fine, and have a high¬ 
bred style and quality which it is a great sat¬ 
isfaction to see so truthfully portrayed. Those 
of the bulls, and particularly that of the old bull 
Duke of Wetherby 5th, who headed the cata^ 
logue, are especially life-like. 
MILKING SHORT-HORNS. 
There is no doubt but that the Short-horns 
are the deepest milking breed in England. At 
