The Express.
London, England, 1850-10-29 00:00:00

lorg-horrs, however, are not favourite' with the
butchers, from their d. ficiency of inside fat, and
from their scud weight commeoly proving less than
from their appeareace and cor-dienn when alive
might h ye Leen expected. It is said that the long-
horn hreeders he their 'ley adhered too closely to the
same blood, breeding constantly in and in on tee prin-
ciple e twisted on by their great muter, Mr. Bake-
well, and that delicacy of consutation was the renit
and thence they were superseded by the short-horne.l
suspect, bowel, r, that the long-horn ismore of a"oone-
posit." asisist, so to speak, than the abort horn, that
the latter breed is of a more die inches and natural race
and thus, apart from the qualities of usefulness pee-
&used by both kinds, that the short horn can be pre-
served sere easily up to its standard form than the
long hewn. At all event', the feeding and milking
qualities of the short horns, w here ordinary attention
is paid to the latter as well as the former quality,
the certainty with which they improve all otter
breeds when crossed, their early int tnrity, and fell
size, altogether give them advantages over the keg
horns which fully justify the c'ecided preference nee
corded to them by farmers and breeders.
Mr. Beards, however, stoutly maintains that the
breeding world is wrong in its neglect of long horns;
sod certainly an h cattle as hobos of this breed would
seem to deserve more consideration than they have of
late years received. He intends to send his long horn
bull to the exhibition of 1851, so that the world,
breeding *and consuming, will have the opportunity
of comparing this now almost obsolete breed with the
popular short hoer.
At Mr. Beards' farm there is water power applied
to drive a saw mart, and flour and meal grinding
machinery, which bag been adapted at comparatively
small expense, as well as with a moderate, though
°matelot, supply of water, and by a simple arrange-
ineLt This sort of thing might be done more gene-
sell than it is. He also suggests that power for
dutch machinery might be very cheaply obtained by
mesas of windmills, which of late years have ander-
sir • great improvements.
Prose Mr. Beards farm I west to see a dairy farm
at the serer, occupied by an experienced farmer, who
titre?' none but short-hors cows, and says that a man
she has to live by his dairy farm must not have any-
thing to do with long horns. The system pursued
on leis farm affords a fair epeeimen of a well managed
Buckinghamshire dairy farm. There are only 20
*crew of ploughed laud on the farm, and the buildings
eensust simply ofs smell bare, stable and cart shed,
and a cow.house capable of holding perhaps half •
&ern cows. Toe number of milking cows kept is
horn forty-five to fifty, all of which are good useful
short borne, rime of them very good, ald a well bred
burl is always purchased. In this way the herd is
constantly improving ; from ten to twelve of the best
heifer calves, which are calved in good season, that
fa before the month of May, are reared every
year, all the bull calves being sold se seem as
dropped to the jobbers, who merry them into Herts,
BMX, and elsewhere for suckling and for rearing as
stems. The milk is laid out in wide and shallow lead
vats, whioh go round and down the middle of a large
and lofty dairy, having two windows on nearly op-
perte sides, on the north-east and west, so as to
afford a thorough draught of air necessary to cause
the cream to rise. The milk is skimmed at twelve,
twenty-four, and thirty.six hours after being set out,
and sometimes it is skimmed a fourth time, when the
whether is sufficiently cool to allow of the milk being
kept so long. The cream is put into a large leaden
receptacle, and stirred daily, so sa to mix the new
with the older skimmed cream; end the churning
takes place twice a week, Tuesdays and Fridays,
throughout the year. The churn is worked by a
horse, and is calculated to make ten dozen pounds of
butter at once. This is all sent off to London the fol-
lowing day, and consigned to a salesman, who returns
the market price of the day. About 12s. std 13s. a
drzen pounds has been the ordiaary price of the pre-
seat season, that since April, though for a short time
in July the price was not quite ee good. This is
probably somewhat higher than the average prices
obtained by the dairy farmers of this district, but great
attention is paid not only to the cattle but to every
prociee of the manufacture on the farm I am referring
to. The rearing calves are fed with skim milk, which'
is warmed when given tothein twin a day, and this is
continued for three months, after which they maintain
ammeter' on gram alone ; all the wavers are in
very thriving condition and of good size. In this way
the herd is kept up at very little expense The heifers
are suffered to have calves at two years old or soon
afterwards. and after having bad three, or sometimes
two calves, are eold,whenabout to calve a fourth time,
to the dealers who bay for the London cow-keepers.
The cows or heifers are kept out of doors all the
winter, receiving hay when the grass is too short to
maintain them. Under this manegement an average
produce of Glee of butter daily, per cow, is obtained
throughout the year. As each cow is dry for
more then two months, her produce during the time
she is milking, must, of course, be higher than this
average. That shelter for the CORP, and a supply of
roots would greatly increase the produce of butter,
the re can be no doubt, but the dairy farmer never
regards these,things as possibilities, and hes adapted
his managemententirely to his presentsystem. On this
farm there is a flock of 150 Cotswold ewes kept, the
weber lambs of which are either sold off or fattened
when a year old, according to circams'ancee, but
they are usually sold as stores. I find every where
in the midland districts,theCotewolds are encroaching
on the Leicester', and scarcely a flock of Leicester',
though called pure, is without aeon cre lessor the blood
of the Collawolde or Liccolo, and the present demand
there is for fully fleshed animals and the ditli•
salty dulling such as carry too large alproportion of
fat, will increase the disposition farmers have to breed
their Leicester sheep, with more flesh, wool, and con-
stitution, which they must derive from the larger
breeds I have named. On this farm pigs are fattened
on milk alone, without any corn. The labour em-
ployed on these dairy farms is very small, and cense-
querely wages in the district are low, 7s. and Bs. per
week being the ordinary rate; and I could not learn
that the constant labourers had any other advantages,
exrept a warm breakfast of skim milk in the morn-
In every field of the Stowe estate outside of the
park towards Buckingham, it struck me that a some-
what unusual amount of cow-house accommodation
had been provided, each field having its separate
cow-abed e sod in conversing with the tenant of the
farm I have described, which lies on the further side
of the perk, and at a considerable distance from
Buckingham, I incidentally received an explanation
of these appearances. In giving me an ace aunt of the
extent of his farm he pointed out so much ploughed
land, sod so much pasture, and then added, "and
there is the voting land at Buckingham, ten acres."
I then found that all the fields I had observed with
sheds lie within the boundaries of the parliamentary
borough of Buckingham, and that each farmer on the
Stowe estate living within the specified limit of seven
melee, though altogether unconnected with the town,
is nquired to rent a field and • now-house within the
borough to qualify him u a ten-pound voter. Thus
farmers, by means of the "Chandoeclause," are made
instruments fur delivering over the county representa-
tion to the landowners ; and political " things are made
pleasant" in the rural boroughs by such means as I
have referred to as adopted at Buckingham. I know
not whether farmers or townspeople have most reason
to complain of such a system ; but I find a stronger
and deeper feeling of dissatisfaction with our present
taxation and representation, both In the country
towns and amongst the farmers, than I was prepared
to expect.
A MIDLAND COUNTIES FARMER.

A MAX FOUND DEAD IN A RAILWAY STATION.
—On Sunday sight, shoat albs &clods. the officials at the
Rivets Counties ills., Station at Stratford naiad Wag
is the station the dead body of a man, cited about 65, dremsd
is brook, sad having on hie persona silver watch and 3s. In
Welt. The bsly was removed to the Blue Boar poMie•
hem*, Stestford:NO eormier's inquest, sad to be Identified
busautAs UIDWALL.—A gentleman residing in
the city et Okerstev, we eoderstaact. while ensuring at the
sheiks tee the Rea. Rdward Stanley, was called is by as
esiersatrie laaliabbasl, who wished kin to purchase t. • tato.
rest ho bad ha mime freehold property, by 'Sewing him as
rosily for his life. The Initialise mitered into his views,
dad wood to allow him the nu of one guinea pAr week es
long le he heed. Before the expiration of the second week
the gentleman wea 'Ain tent Ur to make the will of the
annuitant, wherein be mode him sole devisee and executor.
Ttc rust day the 011 man died. Bat sow comes the meet
wiervellous pat of the story. sk fend's letter ba4 bees
'reorient by the ameuitant, • day or two previous to lb
death. This eelliegoently proved to be the will of the old
man's brother, sobs died abroad, written in Spanish, leaving
all hie property to his booths?, the annuitant. The execu-
ter, thssolsro, by Ws dispeesatice dada himself nnespeetedly
Fat isiLBll.llBll al Palort7 alsoustine to thousands of
periale, alike Is as enllssive osileesine of boo* sad
Mot et willies