88 THE CULTIVATOR March, 
MR. VAIL’S LADY BARRINGTON IIH 
Eds. Cultivator —As you are about giving to the 
public, through the medium of the Cultivator, a portrait 
of my imported Durham cow, u Lady Barrington, 3d,” 
to which animal was awarded the first premium for the 
best Durham cow in the first class, at the New-York 
State Agricultural Society’s show, held at Auburn, in 
September last, I have thought it might be of some 
interest to accompany the portrait with her pedigree, 
and an extract of a letter I received from Thomas 
Bates, Esq., of Yorkshire, England, her breeder, and 
from whom I purchased her. The following is the 
pedigree, as given by Mr. Bates:— 
“ Lady Barrington, 3d, bred by Mr. Thomas Bates, 
of Yorkshire, England, calved 22d February, 1840. 
Got by Cleveland Lad, (3407;) dam. Lady Barrington, 
2d, got by Belvidere; (1706;) g. dam, Lady Barring¬ 
ton, 1st, by a son of Mr. Mason’s Herdsman, (304;) 
g. g. dam, Young Alicia, by Wonderful, (700;) g. g. g. 
dam, Old Alicia, by Alfred, (23;) g. g. g. g. dam, by 
Young Favorite, by a son of Favorite, (252.) Cleve¬ 
land Lad, (3407.) the sire of Lady Barrington, 3d, 
was awarded the highest premium at the Royal English 
Agricultural Society show, at Liverpool, in 1841, and 
also the same year the highest premium at the York¬ 
shire Agricultural Society’s show, at Hull, and he is 
now in the possession of Lord Feversham, at Duncomb 
Park; his grandsire, Belvidere, (1706,) was sire and 
grandsire of the Duke of Northumberland, (1940.) 
Lady Barrington, 1st, was bred by Lord Barrington, 
and this was his favorite tribe of cows from 1794, and 
I bought my first Lady Barrington in 1831, after his 
death. This tribe of cows generally breeds females, and 
will breed well to your Wellington Bull.” 
I will add that this cow was awarded the first pre¬ 
mium at our Rensselaer Co. show last autumn, and is 
a good milker. She gave 22 quarts of milk a day, pre¬ 
vious to sending her to the Auburn show, and is the 
dam of the bull calf (<rot by my Wellington bull,) which 
I sold about a year ago, to Col. Hampton, of South 
Carolina, when about 4 months old, for three hundred 
dollars. Respectfully yours, &.c. Geo. Vail. 
Troy , Feb., 1847. 
FODDER RACKS FOR SHEEP. 
One of the best and most convenient forms for fodder 
racks is represented in the above figure. It consists of 
short scantling posts, into which horizontal rails about 
two and a half by four inches, are mortised, and on these 
are nailed the upright strips of boards three inches wide, 
and an inch thick. A wide board forms the bottom. A 
common carpenter will make two or three of these in a 
day; and a very few are enough for a large flock of 
sheep. They are ten or twelve feet long. 
More hay is trodden under foot and spoiled during 
the changeable and muddy weather of early spring, than 
at other times; and those who are not already properly 
supplied with feeding racks, should provide them without 
delay. T. 
Lunar Influence.— Duhamel cut a great many 
trees in all ages of the moon, but under other circum¬ 
stances precisely similar; but in all his experiments, 
discovered no difference in the timber. Chauvalon, at 
Martinique, tried accurate experiments on many kinds 
of vegetables in the same way, planted at different times 
in the lunar month, but discovered ho appreciable dif¬ 
ference 
