Spayed cow, five years old, three-fourths Devon, the property of George Shaeffer, Wheatland, 
Monroe county, N. Y,—for which a premium was awarded at the Show of the N. Y. State Ag. Soci¬ 
ety, in 1851. 
fixed. That frequently a lamb of the peculiar 
charasteristics of the new breed would appear, 
but with a degeneracy towards the original race 
of Merinos. 
In 1851, Mr. Graux exposed four races of this 
breed before the Society of Agriculture and Arts, 
at Versailles, and at the Great Exhibition of 1852, 
at Poissy, several of his MauChamps were exhib¬ 
ited. I also saw several races of this breed upon 
the “ Model Farm ” at Grignon, where they raise 
stock more particularly for the meat; half-breeds 
by the lot, command from 40 to 50 francs each. 
I enclose to you a sample of the Mauchamp 
wool. Respectfully, Solomon W. Jewett. Mid- 
dlebury, Vt., Dec. 1852. 
Error Corrected. 
L. Tucker. Esq.—We noticed in the Cultivator 
of October last, a handsome print of the full blood 
Devon Bull Champion, that took the first premi¬ 
um at the State Fair at Utica, last September. 
And were sorry to notice underneath a gross er¬ 
ror in giving his age and pedigree, which requires 
correction. We raised Champion, and sold him 
to Stephen Atwood, of Watertown, in this county, 
who parted with him one year since to L. H. Colby, 
of Scipioville, who exhibited him at the fair, where 
he took the first premium; we have also noticed 
in the'Cultivator of November, a statement from 
Win. L. Cowles, of Farmington, Ct., who says 
that “some of his stock is descended from the 
Bull Champion,” to whom the first premium was 
awarded last month ; and that he was bred by 
Mr. Allen, of Black Rock; and that he purchased 
him when three years old, “and used him two 
years in his herd,” which article is copied into 
the Plowman of November 13th. Mr. Cowles is 
entirely in an error, as he neverowned Champion. 
Champion was dropped in March, 1847. instead of 
June, 1844, making him only five years old past, 
instead of eight. His sire was full blood Bull 
Bloomfield, his dam Beauty. Bloomfield took the 
first premium at the State Fair at Albany, in 
1850, and the first premium at the State Fair in 
New Hampshire, in 1851. Beauty took the first 
premium at the Fair of the New-York Institute 
in 1849, and also at two other Fairs, in every in¬ 
stance where shehas been exhibited fora premium. 
Bloomfield was sired by Mr. Patterson’s Eclipse, 
and out of one of his full blooded cow r s; Beaut)’, 
by Exchange, and Out of a daughter of Old Fancy, 
which was sired by our full blooded Bull Holkham. 
Holkham was raised by Wm. Patterson, and was 
sired by a bull, and out of cow, sent as a present 
by Mr. Coke, late Earl of Leceister, to Messrs. 
Patterson & Caton, of Baltimore, in 1817, and 
was purchased by us in 1819; from which stock, 
we will venture to say, a more numerous or valua¬ 
ble breed of pure Devons, has never been raised 
in America, if in any country. 
A good likeness'of Holkham, may be found in 
the 3d Vol. of Memoirs of the Board of Agricul¬ 
ture of the State of New-York, published in 1826, 
page 512. S. & L. Hijrlbut. Winchester Cen¬ 
tre. Ct., Nov. 18, 1852. 
P. S. Will the Plowman, and oilier papers that may liave 
published the erroneous pedigree of Champion, and also the 
statement of Mr. Cowles, give the above an insertion. 
