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rently odd results. The 1st prize ox weighed 2002 lb. at 
3 years and 4 months; the 2nd5 1956 lb. at 3 years and 
6 months; the 3rd^ 19481b. at 3 years and 5 months, while 
the Highly Commended ox weighed 2301 lb. at 4 years and 
8 months. The heaviest ox, Mr. Overman's, is only Com¬ 
mended, his weight being 2526 lb. at 3 years and 10 months, 
the one next to him in weight being the cross-bred-looking 
ox which was 1st at Birmingham. His weight at 3 years 
and 11 months is 2469 lb. His Royal Highness the Prince 
of Wales^ ox, at 3 years 10 months, was Commended, and 
weighed 2202 lb. The Shorthorn cows were of various 
weights: the 1st prize, at 4 years 11 months, weighed 
19591 b.: the 2nd, at 6 years and 3 months, 2250 1b.; the 
3rd, at 5 years and 2 weeks, 2091 lb. The pair of Aberdeen 
Scots weighed, 1st, 2635 lb., at 4 years and 7 months; and 
the 2nd, Mr. M‘Combie^s, at 4 years and 8 months, 2402 lb. 
In the Cross-breds there is the heaviest ox in the Hall; this 
is the 1st in Class 33, his weight being 2660 lb., at the age of 
3 years and 10 months. The 2nd here weighs 2572 lb., at 
4 years and 9 months. The lightest animal in this class 
weighed I960 lb., a Highland and Shorthorn, aged 3 years 
8 months .—The Gardener^s Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 
THE NEW CATTLE DISEASE. 
I READ with great interest your leader upon what appears 
to be, in some parts of the country, a new cattle disease. 
Unfortunately it is one which, in this neighbourhood, is too 
well known, especially when acorns and chestnuts have been 
so abundant as they are this year. As a rule, care is taken 
hereabouts to prevent the cattle eating too many of them by 
having the trees shaken and the acorns picked up, but this 
year a large quantity of unripe acorns were blown down by 
a gale of wind about five weeks ago, and the cattle having 
fed greedily upon them much sickness and some deaths have 
been the result. The symptoms as described by you are 
exactly as we found them, and as regards the change of pas¬ 
ture it proved quite a failure in our case, for five of the cattle 
sickened after being eight days in a field where the acorns 
had been picked up. The seat of the disease, as we have 
found it, is in the manyplies. Upon examination after death 
it is found to be packed with acorn hulls. I have seen a 
