Vol XLI. No. 1699. 
NEW YORK, AUGUST 19, 1882. 
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[Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1882, by the Rural New-Yorker, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
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LIVE STOCK AT THE ROYAL AGRI¬ 
CULTURAL FAIR. 
useful sheep, which are at present unknown 
here, we foresee the time when they too will 
have their boom and make their appearance 
most worthily at some of our fairs. 
NOTES BY A STOCKMAN. 
The Royal Agricultural Exhibition is the 
first of its kind in the world, and perhaps can 
never be approached 
in any other country. 
England contains so 
much in so small 
a space, the whole 
country with its 20 
millions of people and 
all its herds and flocks 
could find room to 
float in our Lake Su¬ 
perior and leave plen¬ 
ty of room for all its 
fleets and ships to sail 
around it, so that it 
is very easy to gather 
into any central place 
the cream of all that 
is worth looking at, 
and a great company 
to look at it. The 
present years’ exhibi¬ 
tion has recently been 
held, and we give 
on this page a few 
sketches of some of 
the leading animals, 
drawn in style of art 
which “holds the 
mirror up to nature ’> 
without exaggerating 
the forms in the too 
commonly ridiculous 
manner. A pair of 
Sbort-homs occupies 
the center, a Jersey 
cow fills one upper 
corner; on the oppo¬ 
site corner are a few 
characteristic heads; 
one a Dorset ewe 
horned and having 
the meek face of that 
useful variety which 
has lambs twice in a 
year. In contrast with 
the “sad-eyed” ewe is 
the truculent ram, by 
a freak of nature, not 
uncommon, provided 
with three horns for 
the defence of his 
flock. Under these 
are two Cotswold 
heads,having the self- 
assured air of these 
high bred sheep, 
which seem to know 
they belong to noble 
families. Below is 
the smooth, compact 
South Down which 
looks always as if it 
had just left the pres¬ 
ence of the artist who 
smooths the daudy’s 
hair and trims it 
neatly; “tonsorial,” 
we believe he is called. 
Near him lies the Ro¬ 
man-nosed Romney 
Marsh sheep, the most 
rugged and hardy of all “ wool bearers,” and 
who carries this character in his expressive 
face; in front of him is the Scotch black-face 
whose fleece furnishes those storm-proof shep¬ 
herd’s plaids worn on the bleak mountains, 
and whose delicately flavored mutton is a dish 
for the epicure. And as we think of these 
By a lapsus lingua :—for the pen is merely 
the substitute of the tongue—I made the 
it is pleased to call a savage attack upon those 
who are “running the Jersey boom,” and upon 
the “fictitious values” paid for Jersey stock. 
Further it states, quite gratuitously, that I 
have been putting up my money and found 
out that I bad paid too dear for my whistle. 
Herein it is mistaken, yet the writer unwit¬ 
tingly admits all I charge, viz., that some per- 
person can object to the parties in the ring buy¬ 
ing from and selling to each other at any kind 
of absurdly high prices they may put on their 
stock or pay for it. That is their affair; it 
pleases them and hurts no one who keeps out 
of the speculation, for speculation it is, which 
nobody can deny. But one may reasonably 
object to the effort made to induce persons to 
believe that any cal 
or yearling heifer or 
bull is worth hun¬ 
dreds or thousands of 
dollars merely for its 
quality without any 
consideration of its 
pedigree or for its 
fancy points. It is 
only a repetition of 
the old Dutch tulip 
mania, the Merino 
sheep mania; and the 
more recent Short¬ 
horn mania, which 
have ruined some 
men and have caused 
serious losses to many. 
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The present com 
crop cannot be an 
aveiage yield and the 
failure, of course, 
will affect the value 
of all animals fed 
upon it. But the cot¬ 
ton crop promises to 
be immense and as 
there will he more 
than 1,000 pounds of 
seed for every one of 
the probable 7,000,000 
bales of cotton or 
about 3,500,000 tons 
of cotton seed to be 
disposed of in some 
way or another, a 
very large portion of 
this can be brought 
into use to help out 
the deficient corn 
crop. Cotton seed, 
however, is deficient 
in starch, but fortu¬ 
nately we have the 
promise of an enor¬ 
mous potato crop, 
and this will afford 
the starchy food to 
mix with the oily 
and nitrogenous cot¬ 
ton seed. With pota¬ 
toes and cotton seed, 
then, one can feed 
stock as well as with 
com, and the coming 
season will probably 
see this manner of 
feeding practiced to 
a large extent. The 
starch in a bushel of 
potatoes is worth 25 
cents for feeding, 
and there is therefore 
no necessity for pota- 
oes to be sold for 
less than that price 
and cotton-seed meal 
can be bought for the 
evident value of corn. 
mistake in a recent note of saying “ 14 
pounds of butter per day ” instead of per 
week, in referring to the records of the 
butter yield of Jersey cows made by Major 
Brown of Tennessee. The mistake, however 
was tooobviousto mislead any person.—The 
Michigan Farmer takes me to task for what) 
sons are payiug too dear for the whistle. 
Further again he says, “ Prices have gone up 
out of sight and there must be a reaction.” 
Thank you, Mr. Farmer; that is all I want to 
make persons, especially farmers, believe, so 
that they may be from under, when the re¬ 
action comes. I have said repeatedly that no 
M. Pasteur’s experiments upon the ore 
vention of anthrax diseases by inoculation 
have opened up a most valuable and interest¬ 
ing question for stock owners. The English 
Royal Agricultural Society has appropriated 
$250 for the purpose of testing the question in¬ 
volved. What a pity it is that our Agricul- 
