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STALLION ORKNEY. 
HE beautiful animal shown at 
Fig. 178, Is owned by Mr. R. 
Van Sickle, of Christi, Canada. 
Orkney was sired by Jupiter 
Abdallah, son of Dr. Rich's Ju¬ 
piter, by Long Island Black 
Hawk, and traces bis pedigree 
to Andrew Jackson, Young 
Bashaw, Kate by old Abdallah, Gypsy by 
Altnack and Hally Miller. Orkney's dam was 
Lady Rysdyck, a well bred trotting mare, 
sired by Hambleton- 
ian. Orkney is half- 
brother to Result, 
with a record of 2:25, 
Rodin’s Prince, 2:27, 
and Tom Moore, 2:28. 
In appearance he 
is a beautiful bay, 
with black points and 
a star in the forehead. 
He stands 15'hands 
hands high and girts 
six feet. He is five 
years old and perfect¬ 
ly sound and free 
from vice. He is a 
first-class driving 
horse both in single 
and double harness. 
His services are in 
active demand, and 
so well is he thought 
of in his own neigh¬ 
borhood that, he com¬ 
mands the highest 
fee for service. This 
beautiful horse or one 
of his sons would do 
much to improve the 
quality of the colts in 
ai y township. 
Mr. Van Sickle 
claims that Orkney 
is the best Canadian- 
bred horse in the 
Province. His colts 
are large and shape¬ 
ly. One of them was 
ruled out of the 
Guelph fair last fall 
ou account of its large 
size. The same colt 
was taken to the 
Hamilton fair and 
shown among the 
heavy class horses 
and took a prize. He 
has several two-year- 
old eolts which are 
larger than be is. 
Canadians take 
great interest in the 
breeding of fine 
horses. The business, 
with them, is as pro¬ 
fitable as any other 
branch of farming, 
besides being one of 
the most pleasant of 
all farm operations. 
old, and “well on its legs,” as one may say, is 
about to establish a dairy school. Hitherto 
it has had to coutent itself by hoping some¬ 
time to include such an institution within the 
list of its educational schemes; but now it 
feels rich aud strong enough to make the at¬ 
tempt to establish oue, and there are good 
reasons for hoping that it may be successful, 
though to what degree no one can at present 
pretend to say. The association has had to 
fight and work its way up to its present [K>si- 
tiou without any assistance from the Statu, 
either moral or fiscal. It has had to stand on 
its merits and rely ou its own efforts. It was 
a plant of slow growth iu the first period; but 
this is commonly the ease when the plant has 
to acclimate itself more or less: it is also often 
of funds, not the want of will, has caused it 
to postpone more than one educational enter¬ 
prise on which it had set its mind from the 
first. In a paper I had the honor to read on 
October 24, 187*5, when the association began 
its corporate life, I sketched a career which I 
hoped the society would achieve, and I am 
gratified to see my hopes being gradually re¬ 
alized. This would have occurred earlier, I 
feel sure, but for the period of agricultural 
depression through which we have been and 
are passing—a period, curiously enough, 
which is exactly coincident with the life of 
the society so far. I may hope, however, and 
also predict, that the society will long outlive 
the depression. The proposed dairy school 
will be situated near to a railroad station and 
V 
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CANADIAN STALLION ORKNEY. From a Photograph. 
ducts in cheese and butter, in whey 
and skim-milk, yield a profit, howev¬ 
er small, on the outlay in milk, and on a fair 
charge for manipulation, then indeed the asso¬ 
ciation may venture to commence cow keep¬ 
ing and dairy farming on a scale commensu¬ 
rate with the needs of the school. 
A profit is not wanted to be made for its 
own sake; yet, all the same, it wifi be the best 
justiiicationand recommendation of the school 
that it can pay its way and live out of its own 
efforts and skilL A skilled manager will take 
charge of the school, and have whatever help 
may be necessary over and above that which 
is rendered by the students, who, in course of 
time, will probably render the whole of it. 
The school will, however, not be anything 
like a complete estab¬ 
lishment until it has 
a farm and a herd of 
dairy cows, and stu¬ 
dents are trained in 
all the details of man¬ 
agement of these. Not 
the manipulation 
only, but also the pro¬ 
duction of milk 
should, from begin¬ 
ning to end, engage 
the close attention of 
the staff and the stu¬ 
dents, and this will be 
the ultimate aim of the 
association in this 
matter. Dairy schools 
in Ireland have, as 
recorded some time 
ago by me in the col¬ 
umns of the Rural 
New-Yorker, done a 
great amount of 
good. A dairy school 
in the County of Ches¬ 
ter lias also won a 
good deal of credit in 
the year which is past. 
But at the same time 
it is true that we have 
to overcome the ob¬ 
jection which seems 
to permeate the minds 
of many people a- 
gaiust admitting the 
need of education in 
dairy matters. Once 
this is removed and 
the people own that 
tuition in the dairy is 
as necessary as any¬ 
thing else, the success 
of dairy schools will 
be assured, and they 
will become numer¬ 
ous in the land. To 
the rising and unborn 
generations we may 
look forward with 
hope that they will 
regal’d this important 
question in its true 
light; meantime, we 
have set the ball a- 
rolling! 
Fig. 
173. 
Pain} Ijitsbanim). 
DAIRY SCHOOLS IN GREAT BRITAIN. 
PROF. J. P. SHELDON. 
The British Dairy Farmers’ Association— 
an association whose origin and progress up 
to the present are essentially English iu char¬ 
acter and general outline—being ten years 
antecedent to a vigorous aftergrowth, and to 
a prolonged existence. I fancy, though, that 
it has been making more roots uudergrouud 
than its leaves aud boughs above would have 
led people to expect, and that it has, conse¬ 
quently, a firm hold ou the soil to sustain what 
it may attempt. 
It my he inferred that until lately the asso¬ 
ciation has been buoyed up by hope of its ulti¬ 
mate career, aud probably iu part by its con¬ 
scious aud inherent potentiality. The want 
iu a dairying dristiet. It is not intended for 
the present to produce milk, but to buy it, 
aud so to lessen the initial outlay aud risk. 
The object at first will be to train students iu 
the art of making dairy products—cheese of 
various kinds aud butter—and for a tune, at 
all events, to purchase all the milk that may 
be required. This, iu itself, will be education¬ 
al, for it will be interesting to see if an insti¬ 
tution can pay its way in cheese and butter, 
made from purchased milk. If its pro- 
THE “BUTTER GLOBULE” THEORY. 
Referring to an extract in the Rural of 
April 2, page 222, from an article by Henry 
Stewart, on “The Butter Globule, I wish to 
call attention to an original article, in the 
Rural of January 29. 1878, by Dr. T. H. 
Hoskins, on Dairy Fallacies. Iu it he made 
an attack on many of the popular and accept¬ 
ed theories of that day. It showed that he 
was ahead of his time iu some things. He 
