The Hon. Colonel Hood having moved "That a permanent list of judges, both for live stock and implements, shall be formed under the supervision of the Stock and Im plement Committees, who shall report from time to time to the Council all names placed on such lists; that both committees shall meet for this purpose, and shall submit to the Council the best mode, in their opinion, of accomplishing this object," the motion was seconded by Mr. George Turner, and carried unanimously...

Mr. Torr having brought forward the motion of which he had given notice" That a register of the number of stock exhibited in each class for the last three years be formed by the Secretary, and that it be laid before the Council on the day when the amount of prizes to be offered is fixed," it was seconded by Lord Walsingham, and carried unanimously.

[FROM AN EAST INDIAN CORRESPONDENT.]

The above malady prevails to a great extent in the East. Indies, and is looked upon as one of the greatest curses which can visit the land. The bull, the ox, and the cow are held sacred by the Hindoo population of the country; and neither bribes, temptation, nor the terrors of the severest punishment would induce a strict disciple of Bramah to taste the flesh of the animals under consideration. The Mahommedan people, nevertheless, render the carcase of the ox an ordinary feature in their dietary catalogue, and the party appointed to slaughter the creature is invariably a priest of the Mussulman faith, who uses a religious ceremony upon the occasion. Beasts affected with disease are strictly proscribed from becoming a sacrifice to meet, withal, the accustomed "laniary" purposes. In cases of murrain, native cow doctors are invariably consulted; and as this disease has from time to time proved largely fatal to the herds pertaining to this our own country, as well as to those of the European continent, the treatment pursued by the Indian veterinary practitioners in such instances may perhaps, if pointed out and particularized, meet with that degree of attention which the nature of the subject deserves. Your correspondent, upon one occasion, witnessed the proceed ings adopted by a native vaccine practitioner in a confirmed case of murrain. A Guzzerat bullock, used for draught purposes, was affected with the above virulent disease. The animal had lost the use of both its limbs, and was lying prostrate on the earth, apparently labouring under the most excruciating pain. It seemed quite unconscious of food, when proposed to its presence, whilst the glands of the throat were evidently turgid and swollen. Three individuals were in attendance upon the suffering beast, one of whom, it would appear, was a native " cow doctor." The mode of operation pursued upon the occasion was as follows: The surgical practitioner was furnished with an iron implement somewhat resembling a small door-scraper, with which he commenced rasping the roof of the animal's palate, with a view to abrase the whole of the pustules which had formed themselves in that immediate locality. He, in the next place, took a couple of handfuls of black salt (muriate of soda), and continued rubbing the same for some time into the various parts of the mouth of the patient. The two attendants now secured the forelegs of the beast, the hoofs of the feet evidencing the virulence of the malady. The operator produced a sharp-pointed instrument; similar to a shoemaker's awl, and was occupied some time in

sufferer, squeezing from the wounds he had inflicted a profu. sion of green-tinted coagulated lymph. Having completed this part of the operation, he proceeded with a hot iron brand to sear the fore and hinder legs of the beast after the manner in which horses are "fired." Finally, he mixed up in a kedgeree-pot a decoction-composed of Glauber salts, cardamums, turmeric, ginger and cummin-seeds-and, placing the whole in a drenching-horn, passed the same into the creature's sto mach; shortly afterwards anointing the mouth and palate of the brute with a copious supply of mustard-oil, and subsequently abandoning him to his fate. In the course of a fortnight afterwards, the writer of these remarks noticed the same bullock insitting upon its feet, and partaking of a little heap of chopped plantain leaves, which had been prepared for the convalescent animal. Your correspondent afterwards learned that the above course of practice proved generally serviceable in cases of "murrain in cattle." If the above remarks should turn out in any way useful to cow keepers or dairy-folk in this country, the object of the recorder of the circumstances detailed will have been fully accomplished.

A song for the flail! the smooth-handled flail,
As stroke after stroke it comes down;

While the golden grains fly, wheat, barley, or rye,
The toil of the farmer to crown.

The useful and useless he thus will divide;

And gathering each in its turn,

The former with care for the garner prepare,
The latter he'll scatter or burn.

And what is earth more than a great thrashing floor,
With the wrong and the right thickly strewn?
But Truth's iron flail them both shall assail;
To the winds then shall falsehood be thrown.

GRUBS.-A small farmer had for many years escaped, when his neighbours suffered severely from these pests of the farm. Being asked the reason, he seemed reluctant to disclose it, as he had long been laughed at about it; but he told the secret, which was, that he always mixed bere chaff among his oats before sowing. He could not explain how it acted, but he knew that it saved his crop. My friend went home, and had a dose applied to a spot where the worms were very bad, slightly raking, to prevent blowing. In a few days he examined the place carefully, and, where he formerly found them by the dozen, he now never got more than one, sickly and shrivelled, and often none at all. His opinion was, that the chaff (awns) stuck to the worm, and prevented their operations among the braird.

CONSUMPTION OF WATERCRESSES AND GROUNDSEL IN LONDON.-Covent Garden, 1,578,000 bunches; Farringdon, 12,960,000; Borough, 180,000; Spitalfields, 180,000; Portman, 60,000-total, 14,958,000; and in value, £13,949. There are 5,616,000; bunches of groundsel, at d. per bunch, amounting to £11,700; of chickweed and plantain, 1,120,800 bunches, amounting to £2,335; turfs, each about 6 inches square, for cage-birds, 660,000, at 24d. per dozen, £520—making a total value of £14,555 paid for birds' green food alone.

The County Member is not always a very marked personage in the House of Commons. He is lost in the crowd of division lobbies; is present pretty much when he is asked to be; and rarely obtrudes with any very particular observations of his own. Indeed, even upon questions which might be supposed to especially concern either himself or his constituents, he is not over-apt to be prominent. "Urgent private affairs" have taken him elsewhere when the malt-tax has come on for consideration; he has had rarely much to say when the subject of landlord and tenant has been introduced; and no one, as a rule, so seldom harasses a Government with a grievance. In a word, when at the end of the session he jocularly relates at the agricultural dinner how late hours he has kept, and how little he has done, it really seems a sin that so harmless and so negative a gentleman should have been kept so long away from his own proper Penates. For all the good he might do for anybody, he would, no doubt, have been much better at home.

But the County Member is at last fairly roused from his lethargy. He schemes, he contrives, he marches down to Westminster a good hundred and fifty strong, without so much as looking to Mr. Disraeli for direction, or to Mr. Walpole for advice. He has a grievance that is all his own, and he will have redress. He rises in his place, and speaks out; he moves, he seconds, and supports, no longer scared by the sound of his own voice. Nay! he goes on to cheers, and hootings, and groans, and derisive laughter; strong in his right of might, and ready to put down any hapless townsman or recreant friend who may not happen to agree with him. Here, the farmer and the rural ratepayer can complain no longer of the apathy of their representative, for he is in earnest now, and no mistake. To be sure, it is not the malt-duty, nor union-rating, nor anything of that kind that has brought him out. His commendable object is simply to employ the county constabulary as watchers and keepers for the overpreservation of game.

The House has had another Wednesday of it, when the quiet country gentlemen made quite a scene, with their groans, and roars, and disorderly expletives; when they rode rough-shod over the good old causeway of common sense and common justice, and carried their motions with overflowing hundred majorities to the chorus of such arguments as these: Sir H. STRACEY "denied that the preservers of game dealt in game,' when the advocates of the Bill are the first to admit as much. Mr. BASS "considered that the moderate preservation of game tended to improve the national character"; but it would be useful to learn the limit of such moderation, with the county police to look after the preserves. Mr. NEWDEGATE talked of "the protection of the sportsman" when he must surely have meant the poulterer, and declared that "the country gentlemen would have to take some much more severe steps"; so that there would seem to be a happy prospect before us. And when, on the clause being put empowering the police to seize any person with a gun or part of a gun in his possession, Sir F. GOLDSMIDT "feared that this might subject volunteers returning from drill to danger and annoyance," the county members met the remark with loud laughter, only height ened into ecstasies on the impertinent rejoinder of Sir BALDWIN LEIGHTON-"Yes, if they had been poaching!" We distinctly ask whether it is wise or politic to thus suffer a slur to be cast upon the

great volunteer movement of this country, even in support of so patriotic and noble a measure as this one of Sir Baldwin Leighton's for turning the police into gamekeepers? On what showing is it that Sir BALDWIN LEIGHTON dares to hint or infer that our volunteers are likely enough to be poachers, or that a policeman might be justified in depriving them of those weapons they had taken up in defence of their country? One such example as this will suffice to show the tone of the debate; and one or two more such "triumphs" will send the Country Squires home at the close of the expiring session the most unpopular men in England. Able, far-seeing statesmen like Lord Stanley and Mr. Henley have already turned their backs on the game preservers, and oppose the new bill as resolutely as their own "Party" support it. Their constituents, we may be sure, will only echo the same feeling of men who have so blindly committed themselves to one of the most selfish, unjust, and unconstitutional measures that has ever been discussed. Let these same constituents carefully analyze the division lists, and they will find that the Poacher Prevention Bill is backed by the game preservers and sellers, and by no one else. The farmer, in fact, had better by far have no such representatives--save the mark-as those he has returned; for there are none labouring so sedulously to saddle him with additional annoyances and expenses. If the tenantry of England have any real spirit or freedom of action left, they will mark these men down, as they mark down their own birds, when they come on to the hustings to offer themselves as "fit and proper persons to represent you in Parliament."

It is, however, not only the farmers and supporters of the game preservers that have here a duty devolving upon them. If ever a liberal Government were called upon to interfere, it is at such a time as this, when the liberties of the subject are so wantonly endangered, and when little but evil can come from such an enactment as that now sought to be enforced, As Mr. Henley, with all his experiences of a country life, has said, the probabilities are that such an Act will only tend to more bloodshed, will add alike to the palpable injustice of over-gamepreserving, and to the national expenditure. And all for what? To maintain and encourage a gross species of butchery that every true sportsman openly ridicules, and that serves to degenerate all associated in its practice. Gentlemen sink to mean pitiful hucksters, and their servants to slandering, unwholesome spies. Utterly un-English in its chief features, the thing is best expressed by a foreign phrase-The Battue-a system of senseless slaughter, asking for neither skill nor energy, nor any of that healthful excitement in which an English sportsman delights. It will be a bad day for this country when-amidst a chorus of groans, and howls, and cheers from the county members the third reading of this Game Police Bill is carried.

sold to the Russian Government two young shorthorn bulls of Mr. Charles Howard, of Biddenham, Bedford, has lately his breeding, Daylight (17671) by Harry of Gloucester (14674) and Duke of Cumberland, a yearling by Duke of Leinster (17724). Mr. Howard has also sold five rams and his Battersea pen of Oxford Down ewes to go to the same country, and with them twenty-three Southdowns he selected at Woburn Abbey, and some black pigs from the Messrs. Druce of Eyn. sham, Oxon.

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THE CONDITION OF THE HEREFORDS AT BATTERSEA.

SIR,-Your special commendation of Sir Willoughby Jones's after dinner speech at Dereham induced me to read what otherwise might have escaped my notice; and having read it, I cannot refrain from expressing my surprise that he should have displayed such bad taste upon that occasion as to make so sweeping a charge as the following, in support of his views respecting the over-feeding of animals for breeding-stock shows: "The obesity of many of the animals exhibited at Battersea was a disgrace to the common sense of agriculturists. He would venture to say that among the Herefords there was hardly a bull that could get a calf." This statement I beg respectfully to deny; aud I can only account for his thus selecting those classes from two causes: first, his probable want of knowledge of their character; secondly, the unseemly manner in which it appears the very excellent remarks made by Mr. Ellis respecting the overfed animals that day exhibited were received by the company: and thus, possibly, Sir Willoughby thought he would select a class of animal that would not excite the ire of his hearers; but, thanks to your spirited endeavours, such ill-judged remarks are no longer confined to the district where uttered, but are conveyed all over the known world; and I hope your contemporaries will, in common fairness, give equal circulation to my denial of the statement, as I am prepared to maintain that the majority of Herefords exhibited at Battersea looked like what they really were (with only a very limited exception), viz., animals kept by tenant farmers for breeding purposes, and of the three great national breeds, viz., Short-horns, Herefords, and Devons, contained the least number of pampered or over-fed animals in proportion to the numbers exhibited.

Unquestionably a certain amount of extra feeding is absolutely requisite to secure success in the show-yard, yet there is a wide discretion which should be exercised, and I state, fearless of contradiction, was exercised by the Hereford breeders. I can readily imagine breeders of an inferior class of animal falling into such an error as Sir Willoughby, upon looking at the Hereford classes, with their cylindrical form evenly covered with heavy flesh, and low legs, displaying, as they unquestionably do, great constitution with aptitude to fatten; and to such persons, before making any comment upon them (particularly in public), I respect fully recommend the consideration of the following extract from the very practical speech of Mr. Taylor at the Dereham meeting where he acted as a judge. Although given principally in allusion to horses, yet it is thoroughly applicable to the true bred Hereford and Sir Willoughby's position: "I have had gentlemen calling upon me, and asking How is it that you get them so fat?' There is no difficulty, I answer, in getting them fat; the difficulty lies in keeping them poor. If you get a good constituted carthorse, for instance, you cannot keep it poor without you deprive him of food so as to injure him. Another thing, gentlemen, I believe that there are many people who do not know when a horse is fat or when it is lean." Yours faithfully,

Baysham Court.

T. DUCKHAM.

THE JUSTICES' JUBILEE;

OR, SUCCESS TO THE NIGHT-POACHING BILL.
Hurrah! hurrah! for our game preserves,
Hurrah for the fat battue,

A flush of pheasants at every hedge,
And for each man loaders two!
Harrah for the Bill that makes the police
Assistant-keepers all,

And pays 'em out of the county-rates
That on the farmers fall:

The Bill that helps sport for the big,

And spoils it for the small!

There's never a man along the road

Shall venture now to fare,
A carrying under his landlord's nose
A pheasant or a hare,
The constable will pull him up,

And dearly he'll pay his shot,
When 'tis for him to prove to us
That a poacher he is not,
And that from our preserves the bird
In his hand was never got.

There's nothing that doth run on wheels
Along the Queen's highway
But a constable in search of game
The vehicle may stay.

At their peril, let snobs a pheasant dare
To order from market-town,

Or bid the poulterer partridge or hare
To their villas send 'em down:

Let the carrier who brings 'em of squalls beware,
And the Justices' awful frown!

This month is the general harvest over England: the northern parts are protracted into the next month. Wheat is best cut by hand sickle, and tied in sheaves. Oats and barley are mown, and may lie some days in the swathes before being tied into sheaves, when dry carry the grains quickly. In the northern parts, the grain crops are tied into sheaves and placed in shocks of twelve sheaves. Turn over the heaps of peas very often, to prevent mouldiness underneath. Store peas without any superincumbent pressure, and thatch all ricks quickly with a readiness of materials.

In late climates the sheaves are made smaller in size, and are very beneficially built into small ricks in the field, of three or four shocks, to stand there till dried for being carried.

Cut all grain crops before dead ripeness happens: the straw makes better fodder, and the sample of grain and the meal are finer. The husks being thoroughly filled, the grain will soon become hardened.

Finish the cleaning of all grain crops, and earth up potato drills by two furrows of the double mould. board plough, drawn by two horses walking in

Lay pulverized lime on clay fallows, harrow and plough it into the land lightly, or place the cinders on the land, and plough them under: they will burst, and fall into powder by reason of the moisture in the land, and the subsequent workings with plough and harrow will mix the lime and the soil. This very excellent mode of laying on lime requires an earlier application in last month. Lay dung on the wheat fallows, spread it, and plough it under without delay, or drill the land with one furrow of the common plough; spread the dung along the intervals; reverse the drills with a single furrow, which will cover the dung. A cross-harrowing will level the drills before the seed furrow. Wet clay lands require surface draining, by cuts and open furrows to the side ditches.

Supply to horses and cattle in the yards ample

cost.

Fold sheep on bare spots of poor pastures; go on with draining; turn over earthy composts; burn peaty and vegetable substances, for ashes by the drill; fill the liquid tank with earthy substances to be saturated; carry to the pit. refuse matters of every kind.

Keep the draft ewes on good pasture, in order to be fattened; put ewes to the ram for early lambs. The lambs of last spring must have good keep. Some farmers, who have not the means of fattening by winter food, now sell the lambs and draft ewes.

Sow on beds of rich and well-prepared lands the seed of drum-head cabbages, savoys, and brocoli, for plants to be used in May. Sow about the end of the month rye and vetches for early spring use,

On our last review of the weather for June we had to record, for the most part, the particulars of a very unseasonable month. Unhappily a similar state of things has to be related concerning the weather of the period now under consideration.

During the week ending with Saturday July 5, every day was below its average in temperature, some days to a large amount; the coldest was the 3rd, on which day the mean daily reading was 51.4°, or 10° below its average! The lowest temperature during this day was 48°, and the highest in the shade was only 61°. Heavy rain fell during the afternoon, amounting to nearly 3-10ths of an inch. The warmest day in this week was the 5th, the mean temperature being 61.5°, or only 1-10th of a degree below the average; more air came from the S. and S.E. on this day than on any other.

The barometer stood at the beginning of the week at 29.8 inches, and remained pretty steady at readings slightly below this height till noon on the 4th, when it turned to fall, and decreased so rapidly that by the end of the week the reading was as low as 29.3 inches. This rapid fall foretold that which followed, viz., a change in the direction of the wind, which occurred with the commencement of the next week. The wind now went round to the S.W., blowing with considerable violence, and brought with it, as is usual with these winds, much rain. During this week (that ending Saturday July 12), rain was measured on every day except the 8th and 11th, the largest amounts falling on the 10th and 12th, when a quarter of an inch was the quantity recorded; thunder was heard on both occasions, and at times the rain fell very heavily, doing much injury to

the standing corn, &c. During this week also, the mean temperature of every day was below its average, but on the whole there was a slight improvement on the preceding week, the coldest day being 8° below the average, instead of 10°; the nights too were warmer than they had been. The thermometer in the rays of the sun, however, was no higher, at least not materially so, as the sky still remained very clouded.

The barometer was very unsteady, increasing from 29.3 inches at the beginning of the week to 29.5 inches by noon on the 7th; fell nearly a tenth of an inch by the evening of the same day, and increased again to 29.9 inches by the evening of the 8th; decreased to 29.6 inches on the 10th, increased to 29.8 inches on the 11th, and then turned to fall, which it did very rapidly to the 12th, when it read 29.3 inches.

The sky during this week was generally cloudy throughout the greater part of each day, the 8th being the only exception, when the sky was partially clear at all times of the day. On this day the thermometer in the sun registered 116°, the highest reading of the week; it also gave us the highest mean temperature of the shade 61.6°, being a tenth only below the average for the same day.

With the beginning of the next week the mercurial column began to rise, and rose to 29.8 inches by the evening of the 13th, decreased to 29.6 inches by the 16th, and increased again to 29.9 inches by the evening of the 19th. The wind was in very rapid motion during the whole of this week, registering maximum pressures of from 2lbs. to 4lbs, and in one instance 5lbs. on the square foot on each day.

The 14th was the warmest day we have experienced for a long time, it being 1.5° above the average all the other days were below their respective averages, the coldest being nearly 5° in defect (the 17th). There certainly was an improvement in the weather of this week over that of the previous weeks of July, although but a slight one: the sun shone more, and with greater power than it had done for some time, as will be seen by a glance at the readings of the thermometer in the rays of the sun. Some of the nights were very cold: on the 13th the lowest temperature on the grass, as shown by a self-registering minimum thermometer, was 42°. Rain was measured on the 15th, 16th, and 18th; that of the 16th fell during a thunderstorm, and was of a heavy character; the rain on the other days was but slight. The atmosphere was moister than is usual at this time of the year.

The 20th and 21st, however, were of much drier character, the degree of humidity for those days being 72° and 69° respectively, owing in a measure to the briskness of the wind, which was blowing from the W. and N.W., with pressures occasionally to 4 and 5lbs. on the square foot. In addition, the temperature was much higher, the means for those days differing but little from their averages, and the partial clearness of the sky enabled the sun to act at times with great power, and readings of 120° and 114° were recorded by a thermometer placed under its direct influence,

The barometer fluctuations were but small in amount during the 20th and 21st: the maximum reading for the month (30.10 in.) was obtained at 9 p.m. on the 21st; throughout the 22nd the barometer steadily decreased, and reached a minimum of 29.77 inches at noon on the 23rd, then increased to 29.99 inches by 9 p.m. on the 25th, and varied but little from this reading to the end of our period.

On the three days commencing on the 22nd, the temperature was much colder, their means being respectively 4.4°, 5.8°, and 2.9° below the averages for those days.

On the 22nd and 23rd the wind was variable, and blowing with very little force; but on the 24th it settled in the S.W., and blew with considerable violence, frequently pressing with a force of 7lbs. on the square foot.

The 23rd was an exceedingly damp and disagreeable day, rain fell to the amount of 0.11 inch, and fog prevailed at night. The range of temperature was very small on this day, not exceeding 11°, and the degree of humidity approached satu

ration.

With the 25th a warm dry period set in: the mean temperature on the 25th and 26th exceeded the average by more than 2o, and on the 27th scarcely differed from its average. The three days were exceedingly fine, and were noted for the absence of cloud, which gave full play to the sun's rays, and readings were obtained approaching 130° on each day. The 27th was the driest day in the month, the degree of humidity being only 63.

By reference to the tables of results, we find that the highest barometer reading occurred on the 21st, and was 30.1 inches; and the lowest was 29.3 inches on the 12th, giving a range for the month of 0.8 inch.

The highest temperature in the shade was 79° on the 26th of July, and the lowest 43.8° on the 28th of June, giving an extreme range of temperature of 35.2°. The highest reading in the rays of the sun was 129.5°, on the 27th of July: the lowest on the grass was 35.4°, on the 28th of June. The dampest day in the month was the 23rd; the driest was the 27th.

The total amount of rain collected from the 28th of June to the 27th of July was 1.73 inches, which is about 1 inch less than the average fall for July.

The past month, therefore, has been chiefly remarkable for the low temperature which has been experienced during the greater part of the month, and for the extreme cloudiness of the weather. Sunshine has been the great want throughout the month; and it is much to be desired, at this important agricultural season, that the weather which has prevailed during the last three days of our period will continue, and that such a state of things will prevail as a well-known poet has described.

"Attemper'd suns arise, Sweet-beam'd, and shedding oft through lucid

clouds

A pleasing calm; while broad and brown below
Extensive harvests hang the heavy head:
Rich, silent, deep, they stand."