1852. THE CULTIVATOR. 349 
Mr. Colby’s Devon Bull Champion. 
The first premium for Devon Bulls over three years 
old, at the late State Fair at Utica, was awarded to 
“Champion/' 7 owned by Mr. L. H. Colbv, Seipioville, 
Cayuga county. The portrait of him, given above, is 
from a drawing made by Mr. J. R. Page, of Sennett, 
engraved by Richardson St Cox. New-York. 
Champion was calved June 28, 1844—-got by Rover, 
a Patterson bull, out of Venus, a pure Devon of Rufus 
King’s stock, from Mr. Coke’s, (Lord Leicester’s) stock. 
Rover, the sire, was by Eclipse, Geo. Patterson’s supe¬ 
rior imported Devon bull—dam by Anchises, also impor¬ 
ted by Geo. Patterson. Eclipse was bred by Mr. Bloom¬ 
field, on Mr. Cokers estate, Norfolk, England, and sent 
to this country as the best bull of his day. Anchises 
was raised by Lord Leicester for his own use. 
Champion has heretofore received the following pre¬ 
miums: 1st premium at Poughkeepse, N. Y., for the best 
bull calf—also same year at the American Institute. 1st 
premium at the American Institute for the best 1 year 
old, 2 year old, and 3 year old bull, and the 1st at Hart¬ 
ford fCt.) County Show, in the fall of 1848 
“Things that I have Seen.” 
The Hampshire Express, (Amherst, Mass.,) copies 
the article under this head, from the Cultivator of Au¬ 
gust, and appends to it the following list of things which 
the writer might see if he would visit East Hampshire, 
where prudent farmers must be more common than in 
many other sections of our country : 
1. He would see fences on many of our farms, so well 
mended up befbre planting, and kept in so good order 
through the year, that the cattle, honest creatures, 
never suspect it possible to get over or through them. 
2. He would see farmers so considerate of their own 
I interest and of the public good that instead of letting 
I their swine run in the road, they keep them in suitable 
pens, giving them a dry place to lie and a wet one to 
wallow in, and by putting in leaves, dried muck, road 
scrapings, anything which they can easily come at, so 
as to make five, eight, or ten loads of compost to each 
grunter. 
3. He would see farms so free from bushes, windfalls 
and waste corners, that he would be tempted to alter 
the phraseology of the wise man, and say, “ I went by 
the field of the indust rious and the vineyard of the man 
of understanding, and lo, it was all grown over with 
corn, grass, and other useful products, excepting a few 
beautiful trees under whose shade the herds might re¬ 
pose in comfort, and here and there a lovely copse which 
it would be infamous to cut down.” 
4. He would see farmers, who practice well, not over 
fond of theories, but when something new is shown to 
be good, ready as reasonable men, to adopt it. 
5. He would see farmers who are unable to cultivate 
flowers half their summer, but who have an excellent 
kitchen garden, with flowers tastefully interspersed, the 
whole presenting such a picture of beauty and utility, 
as could hardly be surpassed, and whose children, in¬ 
stead of roaming in idleness, are oftener found reading 
the best agricultural and other periodicals. 
6. He would see farmers who have a place for every 
tool, and every tool in its place, not forgetting that their 
tools wear out fast enough without suffering them to 
rot and rust out by exposure to the weather. 
7. He would see farmers, who pay for agricultural 
papers much more cheerfully than for trash; who are 
justly conscious that they know much of farming, but 
are desirous of knowing more, willing to learn from a 
publication, a scientific man, or a practical farmer, as 
best they can. In short, he would see such a spirit of 
inquiry as would convince him that the farmers of this 
region will soon leave behind them others of regions 
more favored in soil and climate. 
8. He would see that as good husbandry advances, 
farmers become less officious in their neighbors’ business, 
and more intent upon their own ; and that in this respect 
they are already ahead of merchants, lawyers, doctors, 
ministers, loafers, gentlemen, and all the rest. 
