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THE CULTIVATOR. 
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Importation of Stock. 
The (London) Mark Lane Express, of 13th of June, 
congratulates the farmers of England upon the fact, 
that “ whatever jin jury the importation of foreign stock 
may have inflicted on the breeders of this country 
(England,) it appears likely to be more than compen¬ 
sated by our export trade in the same description of 
produce.” In proof of this, it alludes to recent sales and 
shipments of stock to this country. At a sale held on 
the 1st of June, Noel J. Becar of N. Y., bought a 
yearling Short-horn heifer, “Beauty,” bred by H. Combe i 
of Cobham Park, paying for it $750, the highest price 
realized from any animal at the sale. This gentleman, 
it says, has “ recently purchased several other very su¬ 
perior specimens from some of our most celebrated herds, 
on behalf of himself and Col. L. G. Morris, President of 
the New-York State Ag. Society. At the same sale, a 
Short-horn bull-calf, “ Liberator,” was purchased for 
Mr. Kelly, near Philadelphia, for $400. 
In the same paper of June 6, we find the following 
notice of the shipment of a cargo of stock, all of which 
is destined for Kentucky: 
Seldom has it fallen to our lot to chronicle as valuable 
a cargo as left Liverpool on the 4th of June, in the 
“ Crown,” for Philadelphia; more particularly as rela¬ 
ting to the agricultural interest. This may be inferred 
when we mention that in the ship mentioned were sent 
out fifty head of the choicest specimens of short-horned 
cattle which could be bought in old England; several of 
them being purchased at prices which may appear in¬ 
credible ; as probably no ship was ever freighted with 
anything like so valuable a cargo of this description. 
Twenty four head of cattle and a quantity of sheep, the 
property of R. A. Alexander, Esq., Airdri House, Scot¬ 
land, were sent in her, destined for his estate in Wood¬ 
ford County, Kentucky, U. S. Some estimate may be 
formed of the high spirit and enterprize of this gentle-, 
man, when we mention that for two animals alone, a 
two-years old heifer and a yearling bull, named the 
“ Duchess of Athol,” and 2nd “Duke of Athol,” bred 
in this county by Charles Townley, M. P., near Burnley, 
he gave the large price of £525, ($2,625.) To Mr. Straf¬ 
ford, of London, who had the superintendence of Mr. 
Alexander's cattle, we are indebted for several interest¬ 
ing particulars relating to the stock, and who informed 
us that these two animals were the produce of one cow— 
“ Duchess 54th ”—bought at the sale of the celebrated 
herd of Short-horns of the late Thomas Bates, Esq., 
at Kirklevington, and bred since that gentleman’s de¬ 
cease. We also noticed in the cargo, some very fine 
young bulls, bought from the justly famed herd of F. 
H. Fawkes, Esq., Farnley Hall, as well as some very 
choice cows and heifers from the well known herds of 
Messrs. Bell, Bolden, Cattley, Combe, Downs, Fuller, 
Lowndes, Tanqueray, Wiley, Ac. The Sheep, princi¬ 
pally of the Cotswold or New Oxford breed, were from 
the crack flocks of Mr. W. Game, of Aldsworth, and 
Mr. John Gillett, of Minster Lovell. The other por¬ 
tion of the stock consisted of 10 short-horned bulls and 
15 cows and heifers of the same breed, selected at very 
high prices for a large importing company, also from 
Kentucky, the agents for which, Messrs. Dudley, Gar¬ 
rard, and Yan Metre, have succeeded, after much time 
and trouble, in the purchase of a splendid lot of cattle 
and sheep from the best herds and flocks in the king¬ 
dom. In evidence of this we may cite those of the 
Earl Ducie, Lords Burligton and Feversham, Messrs. 
Ambler, Beasley, Bell, Booth, Emmerson, Fawkes, Hall, 
Hopper, Maynard, Smith, Tanqueray, and Townley. 
| They also had several fine specimens of the Cotswold 
sheep from the flocks of Mr. W. Game and Mr. Lane, 
of Broadfield; some pure Leicesters from the flock of 
Mr. W. Sanday, of Holmepierpont; and some prime 
Southdowns, from the unrivalled flock or Mr. Jonas 
Webb of Babraham; besides a valuable stallion of the 
Yorkshire or coach horse breed; we can only hope they 
may have the good fortune to get them out safe and well, 
and reap the reward which such spirited exertions de¬ 
serve. We believe for the freight alone, exclusive of 
the food and fittings requisite for such a voyage, that 
about £1,200 ($6,000) was paid, while the cost of the 
stock, with expenses incurred, must have exceeded 
£5,000 ($25,000.) 
The following is from the same paper of 13th of J une: 
We have again to report a further exportation of val¬ 
uable cattle from Liverpool, during the past week. In 
the ship “ Mary Carson,” for Philadelphia, was sent 
out by Mr. Strafford, of London, the splendid young - 
short-horned bull “Harry Lorrequer,” bought at the 
sale of Mr. F. Fawkes, Farnley Hall, for 130 gs.; also 
two other valuable young bulls, “ Liberator” and 
“Squire Gwynne (2nd),” bred by Mr. J. S. Tanque¬ 
ray, of Hendon, with several heifers from his herd; as 
well as others from the herd of the Honorable H. N. 
Hill, Berrington, and a number of Cotswold sheep. 
Mr. Bell, of Mosbro’ Hall, likewise sent in this ship 
eight short-horned heifers from his own herd, a young 
Devon bull bred by Mr. Davey, of South Molten, with 
some Devon heifers bred by the Earl of Leicester. Two 
other valuable cargoes are about to be despatched. 1 —• 
“ The Star of the South ” will take out the far famed 
bull “ Balco,” bred by the late Mr. Bates, of Kirk¬ 
levington, and purchased at his sale in 1850, when one 
year old, by the Earl of Burlington, for 155 guineas. 
He has been used the last two seasons by Mr. Tanque¬ 
ray, at Hendon, of whom he has been recently pur¬ 
chased by Col. L. G. Morris, the President of the New- 
York State Agricultural Society, on behalf of himself 
and Mr. Becar, of New-York. These gentlemen have also 
purchased some highly valuable cows and heifers from 
Mr. Tanqueray, as well as of the Hon. H. N. Hill and 
Mr. Harvey. Combe; they have further selected some 
splendid South Down sheep from Mr. Jonas Webb, with 
a quantity of Berkshire, Suffolk and Yorkshire pigs. 
The same ship takes out two very choice Devon heifers 
from Mr. George Turner’s herd. Again, Messrs. Brown¬ 
ing, Farrar, and Phellis, agents for the Madison County 
importing Company, Ohio, U. S., are sending in the 
“Monsoon,” 23 head of short-horned bulls, cows, and 
heifers from the herds of Messrs. Booth, Fawkes, Hall, 
Knowles, Lawson, Raine, Thornton, Tanqueray, Ac. 
Amongst the bulls is the first prize yearling at Sheffield, 
bred by Mr. Hall, of Kiveton Park. They will have, 
too, a number df improved Liaieester rams and ewes from 
the flocks of Messrs. BrOoke, Chapman, Hall, and. 
Wood, as well as 13 pigs from the best breeders. 
Some estimate of the importance of these exports, des¬ 
tined for several parts of the United States, may be 
formed, when we mention that, from the best informa¬ 
tion we could procure, the cost of these, with the other 
stock mentioned in our last week's report, cannot be 
far short of £12,000, exclusive of the expense of ship¬ 
ping—in itself a heavy item, approaching, in fact, to 
£2,000. 
It is understood that the Short-horns above alluded 
to, shipped by Mr. Bell, are for Mr. Lorillard Spen¬ 
cer of Westchester, Dr. Herman Wendell of this 
city, and Mr. S. P. Chapman of Madison county—the 
Devons for George Yail of Troy, and the 
Wain weight of Rhinebeck. 
Churning. —Butter should always be churned in a 
room or apartment, the temperature of which is be¬ 
tween thirty and sixty degrees. At sixty degrees, but¬ 
ter is obtained in the greatest quantity, and at about 
fifty-two degrees of the best quality. 
