Vol. XLIII. No. 1806. NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 6, 1884. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, in tho year 1884, by the Rural New-Yorker in the ofHco of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
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THE CLYDESDALE STALLION 
DUNDONALD. 
E this week present to 
our readers, at Fig. 
347, au excellent like¬ 
ness of the fine Clydes¬ 
dale stallion, Dundon- 
ald, the property of 
Messrs. Powell Bros., 
Shadeland, Springbo- 
ro. Pa. He is n bay, 
foaled on June 10, 
1880, and imported in 
1882, by his present 
owners. He is regis¬ 
tered (No. 2073) in the 
fifth volume of the 
Scotch Clydesdale Stud Book, and is also No. 
1477 in tho second volume of the American 
Clydesdale Stud Book. His sire was Young 
Warrior (2543) by Warrior (902), by Baron (27), 
by Byron (102). Dundonald’s dam was Inly of 
Stephensonbeath (1868), by Duke of Edin¬ 
burgh (1075), by Pope (1237), by Clydesdale 
Tam (174), by Lothiau Tam (506), by Clyde 
(155), by Clyde (153), by Broomfield Champion 
(95), by Glancer 3d (337), by Glancer 1st (336) 
by Glaucer, alias Thompson’s Black Horse 
(335), which was foaled about 1810, and was the 
most famous of all the founders of the 
Clydesdale breed. Among his ancestors on 
both sides were winners of tho first prize at 
tho Highland Society’s Show in 1844, 1850 
and 1875. This is the highest honor a Clydes¬ 
dale can obtain. Mauy second prizes at the 
shows of the society, and still more numerous 
prizes at local and county shows have also 
been borne off by the ancestors of Dundon- 
ald. 
DAIRY NOTES FROM ENGLAND. 
PROP. .T. P. SHELDON, 
For several years past a movement, which 
has commanded the support of many ublo and 
influential persons, has been steadily progress¬ 
ing in Ireland in the direction of dairy educa¬ 
tion and reform, and it has proved a benefi¬ 
cent counterpoise to the disturbing agitation 
which has been going on in that much 
disturbed country. Ireland is essentially u 
dairying and stock raising country. Her 
soil, which is chiefly on the carboniferous 
limestone formation, and her climate, which 
Is greatly influenced by the genial breezes and 
showers of the Gulf .Stream, are peculiarly 
suitable to the combined industries I have 
named. It is probable that no other country* 
on the whole, is so well adapted for cattle, for 
beef, and for milk as aalieut agricultural pro¬ 
ductions, as is the Emerald Isle; aud it is more 
than probable that no other country can pro¬ 
duce butter of such excellent body and quality 
from uatural pastures alone, if, indeed, by any 
other means whatever. It is well known to 
the eonfectiouera of Loudon and other large 
towns, that Irish butter will go farther than 
any other in pastry making; and, even for 
table use, tho finest samples of Irish are worth 
more money to-day than the finest samples of 
Continental butter. 
Id the first half of the present century the 
butter of Ireland had a reputation superior to 
any other in mauy markets; but, during tho 
last 30 years, Ireland has been losing her an¬ 
cient cunning in the dairy, and France, Ger¬ 
many and Denmark—specially the last named 
—have been, as it were, taking the wind out 
of her sails. For some years past, indeed, Con¬ 
tinental butters have had the lead in the Lon¬ 
don market, aud our own goods have suffered 
a corresponding declino, those of Ireland fail¬ 
ing most of all. To this,’ no doubt, is owing 
a good part of tho agrarian discontent which 
has prevailed so long a time in the sister island. 
Now, however, the tide is turning, and an 
euruest desire for improvement in the dairy, 
a warm spirit of emulation and even of rival¬ 
ry, has been aroused even in the minds of 
Irish dairy fanners. This is as things should 
lie, and wo may venture to hop© that it will be 
permanent, for at present no limit can bo 
pluced to the scope which exists for improve¬ 
ment. 
Among the most active workers in the cause 
of dairy reform in Ireland, have boon Cauou 
Bugot and Mr. James Robertson, Professor 
Carroll and Mr. Richard Barter; and they 
have been well supported by all sorts and con¬ 
ditions of men In that country. Dairy shows 
have been held, dairy schools established, and 
one season a “traveling dairy” perambulated 
some parts of the country, leaving a broad 
track of improvement behind. This traveling 
dairy demonstrated the improved practice of 
butter making, while lectures, expounding the 
principles cognate thereto, wore delivered, aud 
the unusual spectacle woke up the dormant 
energies and intelligence of the people. The 
exhibitions of butter enabled farmers to see 
for themselves the sort of goods they ought 
THE CLYDESDALE STALLION, DUNDONALD. (From a Photograph.) Fig. 347. 
