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London, England, 1805-03-05 00:00:00


LORD SOMERVILLE'S CATTLE SEM

Yesterday, at an early hour, Mr. Dixon's Cit♦
Repository, in Barbican, was crowded with Agri-
culturists, Breeders, Graziers, &c. to view the ex-
hibition of live stock and agricultural implements,
and, till dusk in the evening, they continued to
come in great numbers; the number of Nobility,
and distinguished Agriculturists, who came from
one to half-past three o'clock, was unusually great,
and they were amply gratified by a most superior
shew of fine Oxen, Sheep, and Pigs; there being
this year a great number of extra cattle, besides
those sent in as candidates for the lilt Prizes which
Lord Somerville gives on this occasion.
Among the company present, we noticed—
Poore R.-umiak!.
His Grace the Duke of Bedford

Parbi--Winchelsea, Romne;:Talbtd, lams&ld, and Dy-
lICVOf

Lords--Siteffiela (President of the load of Agriculture),
Sony:reinite, Newark, W. .tussarll, dre
The Hon. John Foster, and Hon Roes 114..h0t5.
The Bishop of Yilmor•, the Rev. Dean Dudley, and Arl•
mint Markham.

Sin—Joseph Banks (President of the Royal Society), Wat-
kins W. Wynne, William Clayton, Charles Hill, Harry
VaTl9OlO, kc.
J. C. Curwen, Charles Western, John Palmer, Henry
Hugh Hoare, Charles Gordon Grey, Thomas seteourr.
Haney Detre!, Moseley, George Gunning, Harrison
Can, Money Hill, William Wall, Charles Tottenham, Charles
C. Smith, Charles Morgan, and Jame. Perry, &qrs.
Meesn.--Weetcar, N. Buckley, J. Lllman, T. Ellam,
G. Joyner, Frost, Clayton, French, Smith, Brown, Giblet,
King, King, jun. T Boys, J. Thomas, E Auger, fcreriinee,
Coiling*, Brodie, Reod, Plowman, A. Young, J. Lawrence,
J. Ferry, P Stewart, J. Bellamy, G. Garrard, Gibbs, die.
Among the Cittle exhibiLed we naked—.
Two very fine Hereford Oxen, whleh lied been worked and
fattened by His Majesty, under the care of Mr. Font, were
shown for the prize; they had been chives twenty-five miles to
the place of exhibition.

Two Devon seven year old Oxen, worked by Lord Somerville,
in whose team they had done seventy• two whole and eleveo
half daytewerit, and hadaince been driven 160 miles
Two Devon six year old Oxen, worked by the Duke of Bed.
ford, which had been once drinen ♦0 miles.
Two Hereford Oxen, grated by John Higgins, Esq.
Two Devon Oxen, rued by Mr. Iludion.
Two Devon fat Oxes, w‘elmd by Mr. James Biodon, graved
by Mr. Henry Coles, whichltsd bees driven 140 mites
Two Hereford Oxen, which had bean worked and grazed
by Mr. Hach
Two Suffolk Oxen, grazed by Mr. Miller.
Hereford :ix very •elOxen,worked by Mr. Skyrme, and
(rased by Mr. Weetcar, since which they had travelled bn
maw,

Two Sussex seven year old Oxen, worked and grazed by Mr.
Waters, which had been driven 10 miles,

Tw Devon Oxen, worked by Mr. W. Webber, and grazed
by Mr. Martin Webber, since which they have been driven
193 miles.

Among the Oxen and Cows exhibited, without
any view to the Prizes, we noticed--

A surprisingly Lary. birch Qx' o' the Holdernes. breed, bred
be Mr. G. Wheeler, and fed he Mr. Tully.
A stir handroinesmall brindled fire year old Spanish Ciw.
which Earl St. Vuseent brought over from that country ; it wai
gruel till Christmas last by Nr. Joseph Joyner, and since has
had oil cake.
Four Scotch Beasts, frd by Mr. Falder,
A Galloway Scotch scant, fire years old, fed on gene and
hay sinee May last. by Henry Ouch Hear., Eq.
A Haldeman' white spotted Ox, fed by Mr. Tubbs.
Two Devon Oxen, fed by Mr. Coles.
A Sisrex Ox, seven yea.; old, bred by Mr. Elliot, fad by Mr.
Thomas Ellman.
A Sussex Ox, sev.7a years old, bred by Mr. Cornwell, =ad
zu t'y Mr. John Collinan.
Two Kentish Cows, mother and daegtver, fed by Earl

Darnley:

A Yo-kshire Oh, three years old, fed by Mr. .1. Adams
A Toviadrire Cow, three wean old, fed by Mr Adams.
A Devon Cow, silt years old, bred by Lord Somerville, r',d
Ml by Mn. !leery King.
A four rear old Ball, of Use ludian and French breeds, br
y Mr. White Parsons.
A Cow, of the Devoe and Indian breed , fed by Mr. Wove

Panora.
A Devon Bull, belonging to Lord Somerville, intended for
sale this day at one o'ekick
A female Bison, a curious animal, the size of a en,ddhng
vei y high in the shoulders, with than hums, full eyes, and a
vary sough hood.

Among the Sheep shewn for the Prizes we no-
ticed—
Foe one year South Down Evre.hogs, bred bi H
Darrel, which, hail bean brought in a carriage thirty-two .Wiles
to the exhihition.
Five one-year old South Down Ewe.hogi, bred by the Duke
of Redfced, brought forty •twu
Five eleven-mint:l South Down Evre-hogl, bred by Mt.
John Eilroan, brought fifty mile..
Five one-year old %%erns° Ewishogs, bred by Lord Somer-
ville, and driven 160 miles.
Five thre-re.ir old South Down Wethers, bred and fed by
the Duke of Bedford, brought cony rode,.
Five two and throe-years old South Down W ellen, bred by
Mr. John Filman, and brought htty miles.
Five three-year old South Down Wethers, bred by hfoney
Hill, Esq. and brought 120 miles.
Five three-year o!d South Dawn Wethers, bred by Sir The,-
alas CUT, and brui.ght fifty ate miles.
Among the extra Sheep we noticed :
Two three year old Wethers, of the Spanish and Ryland
breed, bred by Mr. Ridgeway, and fed by the Earl of Mans•
field.

This., South Down three-year old Wethers, breil and fed by
Mr Firs's, brought twelve on:lei.
Four three year old South Down Wethers, bred and fed by
Mr. Milk, drives twenty tw• miles.
Lord Somerville chewed el fat two-toothe4 Meri-
no W. ther-Sheep, of his breed, which' was declared,
by Sir Joseph Banks, and others of the hest judges,
to be peculi.uly fine in the wool, and very fat ; its
carcase will be this day exhibited for the inspeCtion
of the Amateurs in mutton.

Lnriship also shewed three Morino Rams,
part of the flock which his Lordship brought some
time ago torn Spain, with the patriotic view of
improvin,: or fine wools ; these rants he intends to
lett this day, at one o'clock, by audion, for the two
next seasons ; one of these RAMS WM • len ha year
for one hundred guineas ; they ate much better
shaped than the generality of the Merino Sheep.
Three Merino Ram-Lambs, and a Ram of a cross
between Mr. Ellraan'• South-Down, and a Merino,
are also to be left.

Lord Somerville also exhibited the carcases of five
fat Wethers, of the Merino and South-Down breeds,
half blood, three years old, which had twenty-three
pounds of loose fat each ; they had been drifted
160 miles from his Lordship's farm, where they
were bred and fed ; these carcases are exceedingly
fat and fine, and are intended for the dinner which
his Lordship gives this day at Freemasons' Tavern.
Five carcases of Cheviot Wether Sheep, two and
three years old, which had been killed in Scotland,
and sent up a distance of 383 miles by Mr. Robin-
son, were exhibited.
George Tollett, Esq. exhibited the carcases of
two three years old Wether Sheep, one Merino and
South-dcrvrn, and the other Merino and Ryland ;
the former had 1911 b. of loose fat, and the ()char

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miles; these have been killed seven days : they 'were
both got by a Merino Liam of Lord Somerville's. '
Two South Down 'tams, two and three yeArt
old, belonging to Charles Western, Esq. were
shown.
Also another South Do en Ram, and a curious
rangle black spotted Sheep, with four horn'', said to
be from the Cape of God $ lop..
Its Grace the Doke of Bedford, Charles Wes-
tern, Esq. and Mr. King, of Newgate Market, v ere,
we understand, the three judges who exarri-i. l the
five South Down Sheep, sheivn by Mope, Hill.
Esq. and five of the same kind, shewn bv George
Gunning. Esq. for the bet of one hundred gulners
betwen Money Hill, Esq. and Sir Thom.,. Carr,
made at the last Smithfield Club Meting. Their
decision will be made known this day.
Some very fine Pigs were exhibited; particularly,
a small, but remarkably fat and handsome black
and white Sow, by a Leicester Boar, and China Sine;
eight months old, bred by Mr. !sled, and fed by the
Duke of Bedford ; it measures, in height, one
foot eleven inches ; in length, from rump to snout, '
three feet nine inches ; and, in girth across fhe
shoulders, four feet nine iirlies !
Mr. Tubbs exhibited two fine large white Pigs
of his breed; a peculiarity in these pigs is highly
deserving of notice; it is Mr. Tutobs's pradtice to
shave off with a razor, or sharp knife, the gristle on
whenthe top of the noses of his pigs. they are
young. whieksoan heals over; bat the pig is theret.,y
rendered incapable of that destrultive rooting or
turning up of the ground, which Fanners find so
destruetive to their sward•land.
• Chalet Western. Lag she-wed two spatted Essex
Pigs, of his breed and feeding.
Charles Western, Esq. shewed four Sussex Fr,
bred and fed by him.

Mr. Wakefield shelved a white Fig, of the Suffolk
and Essex breed, six months old, bred by him.
The Earl of Wirschelsea shewed a large Leicester
Pig, two years old, bred and fed by him.
Also, a black and white Pig, of the Essex breed,
bred by Charles Western, Esq.
Mr. Pickford exhibited two large b!ack and white
Pirs, bred and led by him.
The five umpiies or judges of the Shew are, the
Hon. RGSII Mahon, Charles Gordon Grey, Esq.
Mr. Edward Augur, Mr. Thomas Boys, and Mr.
John Thomas. In the forenoon of yesterday, they
examined the sevetal certificates, of ekes, hrred,
keep, and other circumstances, reqoired by Ltd
Somerville's printed proposal din the afternoon,
proceeded in their inspeaion 4EI ertrniaaion o L.e
Cattle, preparatory to theiedecision, which will he
read after the dinner this day, when the prizes will
be publicly aJjudged to the owners of the best Oxen,
Sheep, Pigs, &c.

In the centre of the Repository Yard, a very use-
ful implement, called a Patent Hampshire Wag-
gon, was shewn, belonging to Ills Royal Highoyss
the Duke of Ker.t ; it is the invention of Mr. -Rood.
of Portsmouth, and is so contrived as to take readily
in two, and form two carts : it was shewn la'ely to
His Majesty: several mechanic contrivances about
it are very ingenious.
Mr. Plowman exhibited part of a Sheep.fold,on a
new construltion, moving upon wheels, which he
has made for the Duke of Bedford, applicable to the
penr.ing of hogs upon clover, or other green food.
Mr. M•Dougal showed Lord Somerville's pa.
tent Plough, with two shares;. a Chalf-eiratr ; a
Barrel-churn, which does not revolve as usual, but
reverberates by means of a pendulum; a iland-drill
for core, and another with an additional part for
sowing any light manure, as rape-tins:, soot, &c.
with the corn in any required proportion.
Mr. Garrard, the cattle modeller, took several
sketches from the company present, for the portraits
in hi. inteined view o: the Woburn slte••p-shearing;
he also sketched the Duke of Bedford's handsome
Pig, and Mr. Joyner's beautiful Spanish Cow.
Messrs. Gibbs and Co. seedsmen, sheared sam.
pie. of great meadow grass seed, co .: mon me..dow
grass, coelcsfuot, meadow fox-tail, meadow fescue,
crested dogs tail, sweet vernal, improved perennial
rye-grass, ?acey's rye grass, fine bent grass and
yarrow seed, of which kind they can now supply any
quantities, free of mixtures.
Bridge and Parsons, seedsnien, also exhibited a
variety of agricultural seeds, and a remarkable tur-
nip, of the white Norfolk round kind, which weigh.
ed, when taken up, 26! lb. ; it grew on strong land
in Scotland.

Mr. Bellamy delivered his book on the Remedies
for Diseases in Cattle, to his numerous subscribers ;
and much interesting conversation, on sut)jed, con.
need with farming concerns, took Thii
day the meeting is expeßed to be still mor: ii/ttICSL•
ing.

Mr. MoTTLEY, Sen. of Portsmouth, died on Sa-
turday evening, in the titith year of his age, after an
illness of two months, which he bore with the most
Christian fortitude. He was a worthy man, and
will be long lamented by an aff.tdionate famay and
a large circle of friends.
A few days since GroaGE. ST r RI A NO. Of Farn-
dale, near Kirbymoorside. Yorks!:irt, underton' ,
for a smell wager, to pick up, it: forty* we minutes,
100 stones placed in a direct line, at one yard . is-
tance from each other, one at a time, and to d.-
posit them in a basket placed behind the first 'tone;
which he performed with apparent ease in forty-t • o
minutes thirty seconds, being two and a half mi-
nutes less than the time allowed. The why d
together makes five miles and three quarters: the
person who performed it is six feet high, and walks
neafei fourteen stone.

The high price of wheat has occasioned the dis-
continuance of the export in 1r6.11,1, but that of
oats is still permitted, ns is the distillation of that
grain, which is of in6nitely more importance to
those who principally lire upon it, as more r.ivr oats
are consumed by the distiller! in one mouth, than
all the shipping in lreland could take Irmo it is
three. The price ia the last market in Madill was
90s. and 91s. per barrel of 14 stom, wire" i!, per-
haps, not more than would be resMred for cargo
from any port of the kingdom; but as the profits
on distillation enable those employed i- it to destroy
all competition in the purciose Ct.s grain, which
is free from daty, :hey doubtle, will continue to
use it, though the price shall amount to 91. Ss. 6d.
per barrel, as was the case during the late sca.
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