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A thoroughbred filly the property of.M.W.FAnson, f. Spring Beilage. Mater.

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PLATE V.

A DORSET HORNED RAM.

THE PROPERTY OF MR. THOMAS Danger, of HUNSTILE, BRIDGEWATER,

AND A FIRST PRIZE SHEEP AT MEETINGS OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL AND OF THE BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND SOCIETIES.

This ram is a very famous one of his breed, al- | though he has never been exhibited but on three occasions. At the meeting of the Bath and West of England Society at Dorchester in 1860, he took the second prize in the shearling class of Somerset and Dorset Horns, when the whole entry was commended. At the Truro Show of the same Society in 1861, he took the first prize in the all-aged class, where he beat Mr. Bond's ram, to which the judges had given the preference in the year previous. And, at the Battersea meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society this summer, he again took the first premium as the best horned ram of any age. Out of seventy prizes offered by the Bath and West of England Society for this breed, during a period of eleven years, Mr. Danger has won thirty-three, twenty-seven of which were first prizes, and at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show this year his sheep carried off all the first and all the second prizes, amounting to £75 out of £90, offered for this description of sheep. On

the land he occupies Mr. Danger has tried several other kinds, but has found none to answer so well as the Dorset Horns. They are very prolific and hardy, giving less trouble to the shepherd during the lambing season than any other, while they drop their lambs earlier, and, where care has been taken to improve their fattening properties, graze quite as well as Leicesters or Downs. The mutton is of a fine quality, and in the market fetches the very best price per pound. One peculiarity is the extraordinary quantity of rough fat they carry, and on this acount the butchers are always anxious to have them. There is another kind of Dorset sheep, large and coarse, and, although valuable in many respects, not so suitable for fattening purposes.

The Dorset Horns have always been an attractive feature in the West Country shows, and there is no breed that has developed more successfully under the encouragement of the Bath and West of England Society.

PLATE VI.

CALLER OU; A THOROUGH-BRED FILLY,

THE PROPERTY OF MR. W. I'ANSON, OF Spring cottage, malton. Caller Ou, or Caller Oui, as some write of her, | was bred by her present owner Mr. W. I'Anson, in 1858, and is by Stockwell out of Haricot, by Mango or Lanercost, her dam Queen Mary, by Gladiator-by Plenipotentiary out of Myrrha, by

Whalebone.

Stockwell, bred by Mr. Thellusson in 1849, is by the Baron out of Pocahontas, by Glencoe. He himself won the Leger in Lord Exeter's colours, and is already the sire of two St. Leger winners in two years following-of St. Albans in 1860, and of Caller Ou in 1861, a fact altogether unprece

dented in the history of so young a stallion. On the decease of Lord Londesborough, to whom the horse had passed from Lord Exeter, Stockwell was sold to Mr. Naylor, for 4,500 guineas. His stock first appeared in 1858, and he is the sire of Drapery, Emily, Thunderbolt, Vesta, Stockade, Comforter, Little Nat, May Queen, Loiterer, Asteroid, Audrey, Caller Ou, Doncaster, The Drake, Jacintha, Lady Ripon, Norman, Prologue, St. Albans, Suburban, and some younger things, his stock having been running famously from the first.

Haricot, also bred by Mr. Ï'Anson in 1847, was

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