The Portland daily press., 1869-08-14

ty OOmmiItce at IOTtidnus
Per Order of the County Committee.
G. W. RANDALL, Secretary. Il
Portland, Aug. %, 1860. aae aas
Letter from Manchester, Epgland.l
The Royal Agricuiiural show of Eng
A u h land. rrN
lContinued from yesterday.l
To my liking the glory of the show was in
the cattle; and as usual, the glory OF the
cattle was in The improved Short-horns. This
breed more than ever maintains its position
as the possessor of an unrivaled combination
of qualities 1t will, fear, appear presump-
tuous in me to differ from the integrity and
intelligence at the command Of the Society on
so many points but / cannot award that ex-
cellence to the first prize for aged bulls. He is
grand fellow to look at in Enthusiastically
the best shown-and this is what did the trick
for him; but looked at from behind he is
third-rate. He is mellew to handle, and broad
and level on the back. But of the thirty 9TH
OF aged bulls shown, 1 should prefer several
that were not noticed, to him. Booths" Com
mander-in- Chief" that took the first prize last
year was entered, but not shown. But every
lover of cattle had treat in seeing Colonel
Townley's Royal ButterAy"-the 1st, sup
pose, he should be called, as I see there is
" Royal Butterfly the 22d" in the Herdibook.
This beast is within few weeks of twelve
years of age; and is a fine bull yet. He was
shown in ordinary condition merely, fancy.
as a matter of justifabIe pride on the part OF
bis owner who could not look~over the show
without seeing many of his descendants. He
is yet unequalled in form. His horns are a
little large, but that is his only approach to a
defect. 1 believe there is much of his stock
in America, and the owner cannot but be in
terested to know how well he looks. He must
al Butterfly" 22d is by him out of Duchess Of
Lancaster; and nice-uncommonly nice
little fellow Of ten months, he is. Ameng the
two year old bulls there were no very great
animals shown and an Irish breeder comes in
for first and second prizes. The first he show
ed last year at Leicester as yearling and
sold for $780, Among the yearlings the names
of the great breeders again appear. Mr., Fol-
jambe takes first and second, and Mr. Fawks
third prize. Col. Townley comes in for COM
mendation with beautiful red called " Baron
lubbock" In this othe shows " Royal But
terfy 21st'" by "R. B. 18Th" Mr.. Fawks
comes in first on bull calves, and Col. Town
ley second. Among the aged cows find
Booths Lady Fragrant" takes the first hon
ors, Lady Pigots "Queen of Rosalea," second,
and Capt. Tenuant third with "Miss Farwell''
bred by Col. Townley. Of these three
thought the one I was looking at must be the
best until turned to another, and so on. II
obliged to determine / should prefer the first
and third. All of Lady Pigots animals look
to have been got up to please the eye.
This lady shows five animals, and ranks
among the first breeders of the day. In one
OF your late numbers you speak of the farmer
class as the. proper aristocracy. They ought
to be, at any rate. But to be so, they must
honour their calling; and they and their
wives and daughters must cease to ape the
vulgarity of city flunkeyism, which pretends
not to know there are any males among ami
mails. have been ready TO blush over this
indecency-for tits nothing else. The climax
Of absurdity was reached by an ignorant
border ruffian once met in Missouri who
talked to me about his male COW! Every
right-minded man and woman knows quite
well that all the impurity is in the mind OF
the disgusting fool who begins to look con-
scious the moment these matters are broach-
ed, and then drops it, not from its indelicacy.
but in sheer contempt for the human ami
NAL whose mind is lower than the brutes
mentioned Such being should have been
in my place, while taking stock Of "Queen Of
Bosalea." On Monday the first day-which
is always devoted to the select few-the own
er came up in company with some friends
and at once began to state what points she
had most aimed at in her stock-milk, with
true feminine instinct, being the first-and Ia
generally discuss the merits, pro and con, oi
the different animals shown; even the COW
herd joining in the chat; and in all this there
was, in everything, the. unmistakeable breed
ing, and, true above all, exquisite purity ei
the lady, The only thing that made me
blush was the thought that occurred to me
after I had Withdrawn from the company
thatI actually knew people so low in the hu-
man scale that they would have pretended to
have been shocked. But enough of this, for
am sick thinking of it. Mr.. Richard East
wood shows Rosetta Sd, among the aged
cows. Her dam saw at his place last year,
and the daughter is better COW although
not so good a prize taker. Col Townley also
shows Duchess Of Lancaster 9TH. By the
way, it is as well to say that Col. Townleys
aud Mr.. Eastwood's stock is very nearly one
and the same thing. Col. Townley is one of
the great landowners of England and Mr..
Eastwood is his man of business. 1t is not
much to the credit of the farmers that the
best herd of short horns has been got up by a
lawyer,-which Mr.. Eastwood was at the
time he began to breed. Booth of Wallaby
takes first prize for two year old heiiers with
patricia" as good an animal as can well be
imagined, although she looks got up and
over fed--a, fault the judges too much
encourage. Rev. Mr.. Beever OF Ross,
Hereford, shows a yearling heller, OF
the butterfly stock that is beauty, but
she is scasy and looks like an over fed and
over cared for animal. The shortrhorns
must be a strong breed to stand so much
pampering and toying with on the part OF
fancy breeders. Mr.. Eastwood and Col.
TowDley also show two lovely specimens OF
the same stock; the latter taking first and
the former third holors; the second going
to Mr.. Farr, Lincolnshire hunter. Among
the heiier calves, Stratton of Burdop takes
first, and MIR. Eastwood second prize by an
other OF the Butterfly stock. This ends the
short horns; and when another such lot Is
got together may be there to see it. s
l see that many Anserican writers speak
of this breed as Dutch cattle, or of Dutch
origin. This Is all a mistake. 1t would be
amusing were not the idea so pernicious and
deceiving to notice how some people think
everything in the shape os animals came from