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considerable time to judge, and Mr. Percy Williams lent his assistance to the bench, which consisted of Messrs. Oldaker of London, Hutchinson of Catterick, and Bradshaw of Ganthorpe. We believe that a finer array of hunters than these 42 has seldom if ever been in one show-yard, and the hedge and timber jumps were a great feature in the afternoon's entertainment, and made people quite forget the rain of the last two hours. In the four year-old-class the York decision was reversed, and the white card was given to Mr. John Booth's Beechwood, but with nothing for Mr. Hall's bay gelding. This is the seventh prize that Beechwood has won, including that for the three-year-old hunter at the Leeds Royal, but he was not noticed at Battersea. Two chesnuts, Mr. George Pearson's Shamrock and Mr. Jewison's First Whip, contended very closely in the next class, but the leaping of Shamrock, who was beautifully ridden by his owner, decided the point in his favour. Captain Hankey's Stainburn (bred we believe by Mr. Dalzell, the coursing judge), and the

Hon. Mr. Duncombe's Easby and Gorsehill were the three last in for the aged class, and when Stainburn, whose leaping was worthy of his cool handling, had been marked for first, it was some time before the judges finally fixed their affections on Gorsehill (bred by Sir Tatton Sykes, and well known on the turf in his day) for second. The Clevelands were very creditable to the district from which they derive their name, and Mr. Holmes's Polly the second at Battersea defeated a good field of brood mares. Mr. Hymers won in the three-yearold hunting gelding class with "Soapy Sam" by Bondholder, whose stock were successful in several classes; Mr. Manfield had a promising first prize yearling coaching gelding by his Spencer; and the hunting foal prize went to one of the five Farnhams amongst its twenty-three youngsters. We must not forget to add that at the luncheon, Mr. Tom Parrington was presented by the Society with a timepiece, in acknowledgment of his eleven years' arduous service as secretary.

THE PRODUCE OF THE WHEAT CROP IMMEDIATELY AFTER HARVEST.

SIR,-We hear very much now-a-days about the use and necessity of agricultural statistics, but I cannot think the acreage of the crops grown will be of much service to the country provided some system be not adopted for ascertaining the yield per acre.

There having been such a system employed on this farm for many years by my predecessor, Mr. G. W. Baker, and carried on by myself, I think, were it wider known, that it would be of some little service to farmers themselves, did they like to take the small amount of trouble entailed upon them by it, and by that means they would themselves know how their crops were, and also form some opinion as to future range of prices.

During 9 years, the estimated quantity was above the actual, and 2 years under that grown.

The average error of the whole 12 years amounts to 1 bushel 24 pecks per acre, and 6 years out of the time the estimate was not 1 bushel per acre out.

I can take no credit to myself for this system, as I found it here 4 years ago, but I believe to Mr. Baker is due the credit of having first employed it. I intend taking particular pains with the crop of this year, and will let you know the result as soon after harvest as possible, and should any of my brother-farmers in corn-growing districts think proper to take the trouble to test the forthcoming wheat crop, I shall be very glad to give them any other information upon the subject that they may require, and hope it may be found of a little use to them. I am, sir, yours truly,

Woburn Park Farm,
Aug. 1, 1862.

Should ever agricultural statistics be the law of the land, and a few farmers in each district adopt this plan, I think we might then arrive at some just conclusion as to what quantity of corn the previous harvest may have produced; but without some means of ascertaining the produce per acre, I do not think the mere returns of the ESTIMATED acreage of each crop will be of any service.

The modus operandi is as follows: In harvest during the cutting of the wheat I am very particular, and have all the shocks or stooks made of the same size, that is, they consist of the same number of sheaves, generally 10; and just before the crop is ready for carting I go round (myself generally), or send a trusty man, and stick upon each "hundredth" shock a bough or something else to distinguish it from the rest, so that when the corn is carted these shocks are easily seen by the men and left behind, to be carried and put in a barn or hovel by themselves.

They are then after harvest thrashed and dressed separately, and give the "one hundredth" part of the whole crop, which the returns given below of the last 12 years will show have been sometimes marvellously

near.

The harvest of 1856, Mr. Baker writes me, never could be accounted for; but there was, he says, evidently some error somewhere. That of 1860 being as most farmers know "the wet" harvest, the shocks had to be moved three or four times, and therefore became irregular-hence the deficiency; but for the remaining 10 years I think the returns made will prove to any man, who may wish to know the yield of his wheat crop, that it can be done without costing him one shilling extra.

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THE YORKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
MEETING AT YORK.

For those who can devote due time to the occasion the arrangements of the Yorkshire Society are now really very excellent. Every day has its duty. On the Tuesday there are the field trials of implements; on the Wednesday the judges and the public have the cattle before them, and on the Thursday the business of the ring is confined to the horses. It must be, moreover, perfectly understood that the great majority of the visitor very religiously observe this plan of the proceedings. On the opening day they travelled on to Stockton, to specially see for themselves all Fowler and Howard could do in the way of cultivating a trying bit of land by steam power, as well as to witness the exciting contest between the ten or twelve mowers. On the following morning they planted themselves round the ring, to go through, class by class, one of the most select shows of Shorthorns ever brought together; while on the Thursday, despite the rain, they crowded the rail sides from morn till eve, perhaps yet more intent on clever hacks and hunting horses. Friday as the concluding day of the Meeting very happily united its forces, and with all the premiums for machinery, cattle, and horses, now properly placarded, the people saw everything for a shilling; though, of course, they lost the grand treat of watching the several sections out before the judges, a system that is admirably interpreted in Yorkshire, if so far it would seem to be but imprerfectly understood in some other

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It may be as well to follow out the programme of the Society. On the Tuesday then, some four miles out, in a district but newly put into cultivation, and where the holdings are small and poor, we found Fowler and the Howards busily illustrating their several systems, but not for competition." Although the Council announced that they "had placed at the disposal of the Implement Committee one hundred pounds for an exhibition of steam cultivation," this sum was not expended in prizes, but in defraying the expenses of the exhibiters. Mr. Fowler received, accordingly, so much for showing two sets in work, and the Messrs. Howard proportionately for the one they sent. The only fixed trial of the day was to ascertain which firm could plough the greater extent of land in an hour; and this was won very decisively by Fowler, who got through just an acre within the limited time. The execution was also very even and sightly; and with, indeed, certain inconveniences in their allotment, the Bedford House made very excellent work, but not with the like remarkable rapidity which so generally characterized the other's performance. To fully illustrate the capabilities of the two methods, the remainder of the day was spent by the Howards in smashing or tearing, and by Fowler in cultivating and digging. For the latter process they employed the larger set of tackle with a fourteen horse engine, and went to a depth of eight inches, with a result that was to many perfectly astonishing. It is seldom that any such soil has been so thoroughly "tackled," as was the Stockton ley with Fowler's digger; and apparently the power employed would be something considerable, though the extent they can get through at such a depth goes to show with what comparative facility the work is accomplished. One looked with more than ordinary interest to the official report of these trials, that it was understood was preparing for publication by the next morning, and which Mr. J. C.

Morton had been engaged to draw up. This gentleman
was taking great pains in the field, not merely in watch-
ing the work, but in analyzing it. With this object he
had two square yards in width, and down to the depth
the plough penetrated, carefully weighed from different
parts of the field operated upon, of course with a view to
a further comparison between the several means em-
ployed. Proverbially slow as judges are known to be
in putting their remarks into shape, Mr. Morton had
his report ready by Wednesday morning; but it was not
permitted to be published! The officials interposed,
who would read and revise the paper before it was cir-
culated-surely an unnecessary piece of interference.
If Mr. Morton was thought to be so far qualified to
write a report as to be invited by the Council to furnish
one, that-especially after the trouble he had taken-
should have been accepted, and, if possible, at once issued.
No one but himself could judge better of what took place
on the Stockton field, and we trust he will allow us the
opportunity of seeing the Report as originally written,
and of comparing it with that as subsequently im-
proved upon. If this be not, after all, substantially altered,
then it is very clear that it should have been issued, as
intended to be, during the meeting. The withholding of
the article caused grave complaint and dissatisfaction,
while it is only fair to Mr. H. S. Thompson, the Presi-
dent of the year, to say that his name was but too generally
associated with so unpopular a proceeding. Regretting
this as we do, we shall be only happy to afford him the
opportunity of correcting such an impression. But in the
interim, we are, fortunately, enabled to give the following
as something of a summary of the report prepared by Mr.
Morton:-"Fowler's 14-horse power engine on this oc-
casion worked his 4-furrow balance plough with the dig-
ging breasts, and his 6-tined cultivator; Howard's 10-
horse power engine worked his 3-furrow balance plough
and 3-tined cultivator; and Fowler's 8-horse power engine
worked his 4-furrow ordinary plough. This was the
order of their position on a field of light soil (with, how-
ever, patches of clay in it), long enough for a furrow of
320 to 350 yards. The judgment of the reporter was
based less upon the appearance of the work and less
upon the extent of it done in a given time than it gene-
rally has hitherto been. The real measure of the work
done lies in the weight of earth moved per acre, and in
a given time. To ascertain this, two square yards of the
earth ploughed or cultivated were weighed in some 15
or 20 instances, and the quantity of earth moved per
acre and per hour was then estimated. The following
were the results recorded :-Fowler's (so called) 8-horse
power engine, with moving anchorage and clip drum on
the same headland, and moving anchorage on the far
headland, ploughed, with the aid of four men and two
lads, 1 acre in an hour, moving 938 tons of earth per
acre and per hour. Fowler's 14-horse power engine,
with the aid of three men and two lads, worked with the
diggers' 1 acre 1 rood and 5 perches per hour, moving
1,002 tons of earth per acre and 1,280 tons of earth per
hour. The same engine with the same hands cultivated
1 acre 3 roods and 24 perches per hour, moving however
only 650 tons of earth per acre and 1,240 tons per hour.
Howard's 10-horse power engine with double windlass,
five men and two lads and 3-furrow plough, worked 3
roods per hour-932 tons per acre and 774 tons per
hour. The same engine and apparatus, with a 3-tiñed

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cultivator, worked 1 acre per hour, and moved 660 tons mit to any competitive examination. The thrashing of earth per acre and per hour. The digging of Fow-machines being restricted to single or double blasts, the ler's engine was done too fast, and the surface was left Tuxfords were also put out of trial, as having armed theirs too rough-the working of Howard's cultivator was with treble blasts, and Humphries, of Pershore, consedone too slow, and the earth was not sufficiently dis- quently led the way with his very useful farmer's friend. turbed, though all effectually cut off the subsoil-and Busby's were the best carts, and A. and E. Crosskill greatly to the surprise of the reporter, there was actually had a similar preference for waggons; the competition more earth per acre moved here than in the case of being especially strong with the former, amongst the Fowler's cultivator, which was driven so fast as to throw Yorkshire houses. The judges, again, were much taken the whole extremely loosely and roughly together. The with the uses of Weighell's two-horse portable horserapidity, however, of the work was such in the latter power for minor machinery on a farm; à selection they case as well as in the 'digging,' as to bring out a very supported with plenty of commendations to other manularge performance of work done in a given time. The facturers of the same means." It was impossible, ploughing was in both cases admirable-perfect accord- however, to follow these gentlemen very closely on the ing to the mode of judging hitherto adopted, which de- Wednesday, when there was "something else to do;" pends upon the surface presented to the light-excellent and we prefer leaving their opinions to be more defiaccording to that better mode of judging which looks at nitely expressed in the prize list, amplified as this is by the quantity of earth moved per acre and the state of a formidable array of exhibitors that we append to the the floor on which it lies. Both the quantity and qua- awards. lity of the work accomplished were satisfactory proofs of the success with which steam is now applied to cultivation-and though the land was for the most part light and easy, and therefore not well adapted for anythidg like a serious trial of the steam plough, yet the easy accomplishment of the work given it to do no doubt helped to convince many a spectator of his interest in at once commencing the cultivation of his land by steam."

Able and valuable as this is, how much more useful would such a Report have been if circulated, as it might have been, on the York show-ground! It will be seen that we do not altogether acquiesce in the easiness of the work, but we are only too happy to allow such a paper to speak for itself; and it will be for the Council of the Yorkshire Society to settle amongst themselves the grounds upon which the gentleman they invited to prepare it was in the first instance denied such a privilege?

horns-the very aristocrats of a Yorkshire showFor it was on the Wednesday that the Shortriveted the gaze of their many admirers; and yet, so far as mere numbers went, there was no formidable array here. In fact, the very entries read rather like "running-off ties" than the original composition of open classes. And this was the general character of the York Show of Shorthorns. It was running-off ties. In no class were the entries great, but nearly all the animals were amongst the very best of their breed, and the majority of them as well known as winners. Mr. Stratton, who acted with Mr. Drury and Mr. Thomson of Anlanby, told us it reminded him of his first visit to a York show, some twenty years since, when he saw Bracelet, and Necklace, and Duchess 34th, and Buttercup in the ring, with that famous bull, the Duke of Northumberland, to open the lists. But there were as famous bulls in the yard on Wednesday; and it is long since so generally good a class has been got together :The trials of the reapers were necessarily deferred Royal Butterfly, a winner of the Royal at Canterbury until the corn in the district is riper, and when, amongst and of the Yorkshire at Pontefract-Skyrocket, Lord others, A. and E. Crosskill will bring out Ransome's Feversham's grand Leeds bull-a rare, deep, great bull new Australian Reaper, that comes here with a high from Scotland called Van Tromp, and Victor Emcharacter, and which the Ipswich firm is making-up manuel, also from over the border, and both destined to largely to send back again—not a bad sign of its useful- earn distinction to-day. Then Mr. Robinson sent on ness. If some disappointment was expressed in the his new purchase the 2nd Duke of Airdrie, the first postponement of the reaper trials, this was in a great Duke in Essex, and with some notice even in Yorkmeasure compensated for by the exhibition of mowing shire. The neat Master Buttercup was to be named machines. Of these there were nearly a dozen in com- only in the next degree; and Mr. Wiley's white Sir petition on a piece of grass quite heavy enough to be Charles, with two or three more, completed a class out termed a fair average crop; and with Cranston's Wood, of which the judges soon selected those they ultimately Samuelson, Kearsley, Burgess and Key, Busby, Kirby, named for either honours or notice. Their ultimate Picksley and Sims, Norton and Spencer conspicuous choice, Royal Butterfly, has worn wonderfully well, and amongst them. The Newgate-street firm was said to walked away as light and airy and as handsome be represented by Mr. Watson, of Gambling; but as as ever. He does not look near so big as he both Mr. Burgess and Mr. Rix were on the ground, did at Canterbury, but is a bloodlikeable animal, with their implement was in pretty good keeping. After a nothing coarse or patchy about him. Never was very careful trial, and a deal of good work, Messrs. a prize more fairly won; for Skyrocket, sadly disDruce, Outhwaite, and Scott arrived at a conclusion figured with a large swelling on one of his knees, that the common public had much earlier anticipated; has visibly wasted, and only still preserves his fine and this was, that either for lightness, handiness, or noble outline. There were many fancied Mr. perfection of execution, Cranston's Wood fairly beat all Home's bull would beat him, a long way as he was bethe others that Samuelson's performance was highly fore the other two commendations. As it is, Van commendable-that Kearsley of Ripon was only in the Tromp may succeed to a place, for Butterfly is objected next degree-and that Burgess and Key and Busby to as having been first at Pontefract, where the Yorkmight also be commended. This is a fair wholesome shire meeting was held two years since; and it trial, especially after the undue stress attempted to be said that Skyrocket might be disqualified from his laid on the display at Dereham a few weeks sinc e,where having won at an associated show of the Yorkshire and one mower would not work, another could not, and a another Society, as held at Leeds last summer. Only third that did unite these very essential conditions re- half-a-dozen two-year-olds came into the ring, of ceived half the prize! The adjudications in the yard which the Battersea Gamester was clearly the best, at York did not excite anything like the interest of those although with a bad rash disfiguring his clean white afield, two or three of the great people, like Clayton skin. Mr. Stratton had it more his own way for second and Shuttleworth and the Hornsbys, declining to sub-with a wealthy beefy bull, but with little of the style or

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show of Master Frederick, whose beautiful wild roving eye told immensely against the dull sleepy expression of his rival. Mr. Fawkes' bull was deservedly commended; and then, over the yearlings, the Battersea awards became more bothered than ever. The third in London was the first at York-the first in London was the second at York-and the second in London was the third at York. But there is no doubt Whipper-in's travels have told on him, for we never saw him show so badly, and people were more inclined than ever to pull him to pieces behind his back." It will need all Mr. Tallant's talents, and they are of no common order, to get him in form for the sale, which is to be really genuine, and everything to go for what it will bring. Windsor Augustus, on the contrary, was very even and well covered, and the tenth Butterfly true in his points and fresh in his looks. The awards spoke well for Mr. Carr's herd, who not only bred the best of them, but had a yearling in his own name most deservedly commended. Standing very deep on a short leg, and with a capital twist, a certain thickness of horn rather detracted from Don Windsor's appearance; but even this is something of a warranty for masculine character. The easiest thing of the whole day's work was Mr. Robinson's clever calf placing himself over a rather middling class, with Lady Pigot's alone to be numbered anywhere near to him. Jericho who has gone on well since Battersea, was sold at York previous to the award for a hundred to the Baron Nathusius, who takes him out to Prussia.

The shorthorn cows and heifers were if anything yet more select. In the two senior lots of aged and three year olds, with only five in each class, there were Mr. Eastwood's Rosette, Mr. Douglas Maid of Athelstane, Mr. Booth's Queen of the Vale, Colonel Towneley's Rose of Lancashire, Lord Feversham's Valetta, Mr. Booth's Queen of the Ocean, Lady Pigot's Pride of Southwicke, Mr. Mitchell's Miseltoe, and Colonel Towneley's Young Butterflynearly everyone fit to be first. The judges, in fact, specially mentioned nine out of the ten, while they generally commended the classes of two-year-old and yearling heifers, with ten in the one and eleven in the other. It was thought that the London gold medal cow might have been down calving at Warlaby; but Queen of the Ocean never looked better, and we are quite willing to admit that we liked her a deal more in York than in London. Rosette is getting coarse and vulgar behind, and Misletoe has the same very visible failing; but the other cows were all wearing well and in a capital show condition; while amongst the younger heifers Mr. Douglas got the Queen placed to his liking at last. She has been beaten, however, again since Battersea, at Belford, by Mr. Wood's Bonny-belle, a very neat one, only commended by the Royal and highly commended here, so that out of the three trials the Athelstane beauty has just the best of it. The latter, from the way she has been made up, threatens soon to become cowy, but for compactness of frame and fine points she is now certainly very admirable. Her second here was a wonderfully useful white of Mr. Atkinson's, only a little deficient in quality, while Lord Feversham's Cecilia, the Royal third, Lady Pigot's Victoria, and Roan Knight's Butterfly were included in the general compliment paid to the class. In the next, about the only mistake of the day occurred where Lady Pigot's handsome Rosedale was outplaced for second by one of Mr. Singleton's, for some reason, which to the mere lookers-on was more or less inexplicable, and that almost warranted the bit of temper shown by her ladyship's herdsman when he indignantly threw away his high commendation. There was but a small lot of calves where Frederick's Farewell,

wrongly entered amongst the older heifers, rather annoyingly for her competitors, was suffered to show in her proper place.

The following succinct and admirable rules, as published in the catalogue, are worthy of the attention of similar societies: "When the cows and heifers are certified to be in calf, the prizes awarded will not be paid until a certificate of their having had alive calf has been delivered to the Secretary. The heifers in Class 7 shall be certified to be one month past their bulling. The number of live calves the cows have had shall be certified. The bulls in Class I shall be certified (at the time of entry) to be sires of live calves; and in Classes 2 and 3, that cows are holding to them. In awarding these prizes, the Judges will be instructed not to take into consideration the present value to the butcher, of the animals exhibited, but to decide according to their relative merits for the purpose of breeding." With the first of these conditions, by way of a warning, the Empress of Hindostan, though entered amongst the breeding cows, was not sent. Surely this is a lesson of itself to such associations as the Northampton, where this fat beast took a prize!

The Yorkshire show of sheep is so entirely confined Dent Dent's suggestion, and offer no premiums for shortto Leicesters, that it would be far better to adopt Mr. wools or Cotswolds. In competition for four prizes there were three Southdowns in all, and in two classes of Cotswolds just two sheep to take the two prizes. The Leicesters, though by no means in great numbers, were remarkably good-Mr. Borton's aged rams very superior sheep, and the shearlings pronounced to be a better class than those exhibited at Battersea, and over which such a storm is brewing. Mr. Borton breeds from Mr. Sanday, and has now that terrible third-prize ram in use, while Mr. Wiley relies more upon his own sort; but both with sufficient proof to show how well the Leicester does in Yorkshire, keeping alike his fine thoroughbred points and good useful size. It was at Dereham that we reported Mr. Crisp's threat to return Mr. Wainman's visit, and send his pigs into Yorkshire. He has now done so, and his large whites, so comparatively little appreciated at home, have beaten Royal winners and all Yorkshire for backs and loins. The Butley big breed came originally from the north, but they have been considerably improved in the way we have mentioned, and the most learned in hogsflesh at once admitted how unmistakably they had won. For our own part we much prefer the middle breed, or, if there be a further distinction, Lord Wenlock's beautiful sort, surely the best of all for good looks and fine quality. Indeed, as a merely commended man said to us in mournful accents of admiration as we were studying that store trio, "But then what's one to do, you know, against such pigs as these!" Mr. Crisp, altogether rash in his resolve, was bold enough to also send some small blacks; but a Yorkshireman would as soon look at a black pig as he would at a Suffolk horse; so that the old Marquis and "the niggers" did not get much by their "motion"-and they must have had a deal of it, too, before they reached home again.

"The Horse Day," well as it promised when we took a look through the several classes on the Wednesday afternoon, had to encounter disadvantages which considerably deteriorated from its otherwise certain success. The weather broke up in the night, and it rained hard up to mid-day on Thursday, forcibly reminding the citizens of the last show of the Society at York, when on the shilling day many hundreds of visitors never left the shelter of the station. Further, there was a deal too much work for a single set of judges; and although Messrs. Garfitt, Parrington, and Wood bravely defied the elements when time was called at nine in the morn

ing, it was not until between seven and eight in the evening that they had "got through," after nearly twelve hours' hard labour. They had no less than 28 separate classes in, and nearly 350 horses before them. These were, of course, of all sorts-thorough-bred stallions; hunters, of all ages from foals to six-year-olds; harnesshorses, mares, and young things; hacks or roadsters in similar sections; brood mares, ponies and odd lots; with cart-horses in every possible stage of their existence. Some of these divisions, moreover, as with the hackneys and four-year-old hunters, were so "well" filled that it took a long hour to get the many entries properly placed. No men could have done their duty more ably or carefully, but it was asking too much of them; and henceforth it will be absolutely necessary to employ two sets of horse judges-say the one" Company" to take the cart and harness-horses, and the other the hacks and hunters. As it was, many of the spectators had to give up their places by the ring side before the best horses were brought into it a cruel thing to ask of a Yorkshireman ; while late in the afternoon the nags left the ground directly the judges had done with them, with their cards of honourable mention in the men's pockets. A true and correct list of the many commendations was under such circumstances a matter of much difficulty, but we believe ours includes nearly everything noticed. The strength of the show centred on the riding stock, which was generally excellent, whereas some of the agricultural classes were but moderately filled, and the entry of cart stallions by no means extraordinary. The first prize here was a grey, with another or two of the same colour amongst his competitors; whereas, in the general run of the draught horses, the blacks were greatly in the ascendent. Two or three of the pairs in work were conspicuous amongst these for their weight and power, combined with light clever action. This lot, indeed, was altogether the best of the John Jollies, some of the young stock being by no means imposing in their appearance, and the whole show of them scarcely equal to what one would expect to see gathered together under the auspicies of the Yorkshire Society. The Cleveland coachers were better, although a dark brown was occasionally preferred to the more orthodox bay; and the hacks and hunters as good an entry right through as we ever saw. Of course it utterly eclipsed Battersea in its general merits, although one or two of the metropolitans attracted more attention here. That of the four-year-old hunters was perhaps the most interesting trial of the day, with the Leeds Clumsy horse, Mr. Booth's Leeds three-year-old. Mr. Clark's Driffield Cup horse, Mr. Botterill's Bridlington winner, and many other good-looking ones in it. Entered in the name of Mr. Hall, who picked him out last summer, the Clumsy gelding has just been sold to Mr. Holmes of Beverley, whose confidence in his horse winning at York was ultimately verified, after a very close thing of it with Beechwood. Still Clumsy has not improved but rather begins to look a little like leather, whereas the Warlaby nag went as corky as a float; and the more popular verdict would have given him the ribbons and the other the commendation card. In the three-year-olds, again, they preferred a bigger one to a very sweet horse with white heels, nominated by Mr. Brand, but purchased on the Wednesday by Sir George Wombwell, for 115 gs.; the young baronet's beautiful Bertha also being amongst the commended. But the judges dwelt very seriously over these classes, and opinion, both in and out of the ring, appeared to be much divided. Lord Wenlock's special premium for "a hunter to possess not less than three crosses of blood"-a very different thing, be it remembered, to a hunting sire on the same terms-was more easily got over, The

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Emerald Isle, now grown into a grand horse, having it all his own way, as in fact did his owner Mr. Botterill, who finished first and second in the class. The aged hunters numbered half-a-dozen or so, very superior, the cynosure amongst them being Mr. Maynard's Irish mare, the Colleen Bawn, which, rumour declared, had made three hundred on the ground to carry the King of Sardinia, Mr. Phillips having specially selected her for that purpose. However, the judges only commended her highly when brought into the ring, preferring for their first Mr. Atkinson's Roland horseall over a workman, though he did set his back up and tuck his tail in; whereas, old Squirrel stood like a picture before them, far away the handsomest horse of the lot, but in want of a little more bone, and resolution to help him along. There were twenty hacks, with a dozen or more rare good ones amongst them, of which Mr. Holmes, of Beverley, claimed a couple, that only just missed the premium, being cleverly beaten by Mr. Swarbeck's very perfect chesnut mare; but it is seldom that we find such a trio to hang over. The Hadji, filled out and furnished into a wonderfully fine horse, overtopped General Williams, old Morpeth, Spenser, and six or seven more, very palpably for the stallion premium, though they did put a cocktail over his head last year at Leeds. Spenser, who has worn well, looked as neat as ever, but would seem to have lost his temper, while Morpeth's "remains" served to remind one of what a rare useful horse he had been in his time. There is no end, however, to the talk over a horse show in Yorkshire, where, like the pigs and the Shorthorns, they meet and beat each other week after week, until there are as many performances to go through as with a wellseasoned plater.

The poultry show was not worth any special notice, and the speakers at the dinner must speak for them. selves.

PRIZE LIST.

CATTLE.
SHORTHORNS.

JUDGES.-G. Drewry, Holker House, Newton-in-Cartmell.
R. Stratton, Walls-court, Stapleton, Bristol.
J. B. Thompson, Anlaby, Hull.

Bulls three years old and upwards.-First prize £20, Lieutenant-Col. Towneley, Towneley Park, Burnley (Royal Butterfly).

Second £10, Lord Feversham, Duncombe Park, Helmsley (Skyrocket).

Highly commended.-G. H. M. B. Home, Argaty, Donne, N.B. (Van Tromp); commended, Duke of Montrose; Buchanan, Glasgow (Victor Emanuel); J. Robinson, Clifton Pastures, Newport Pagnell (2nd Duke of Airdrie).

Bulls two years old.-First prize £25, H. Ambler, Watkinson Hall, Halifax (Gamester).

Second £10, J. Charlesworth, Headfield, Dewsbury (General Murat).

Highly commended.-Col. Towneley (Master Frederick); commended, F. H. Fawkes, Farnley, Otley (Lord Cobham). Yearling Bulls.-First prize £20, H. Ambler (Windsor Augustus).

Second £10, S. Marjoribanks, Bushey, Watford (Whipperin).

Highly commended.-Col. Towneley (Royal Butterfly 10th); commended, W. Carr, Stackhouse, Settle (Don Windsor). Bull Calves, upwards of five months old.-First prize £10, J. Robinson, Clifton (Jericho).

Second £5, Lady Pigot, Branches Park, Newmarket (Pam). Commended.-R. Middleborough, Milford.

Cow, of any age, in calf or milk.-First prize £15, R. Booth, Warlaby (Queen of the Vale).

sette). Second, £5, R. Eastwood, Swinshaw House, Burnley (Ro

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