New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-04-04

honor went again to England, being given 10 inc
Southdown. OF course. all these cattle. sheep, ana
pigs were raised French soil, aud the TACT Oh .h
being English breeds only shows the iairheSs Va .Ao
jury. The sheep all shorn. except one NV, -
each of them carried about shoulder kho' Vi NE
WOOL to show what he stood for In the wool maiho,
The hogs filed the whole western end OF tho puiiu-
ing the end nearest to CINCINNATI, ana maoo ~ u',
ereeable Some of these creatures were shhiheiuny
enormous, and blushed for my kind "hei 90"
the admiration they excited. In the ih"'oii'y y.
cases they were quite unable TO stahu, anu no "'
Of provocation could make them attempt IL. saw
ono oontleman tickle the nose of the first prize with
straw for ten minutes, but as the little peach ooy
,rho o,ood Inv oamirinp, exclaimed, I'll ne bouge
r.sp He winked at his prosecutor blandly' ana
seemed TO saw: my nerves lie too deep to be reacheu
nv strawsr The problem in fattening hogs seems
q, he In uet "A much meat as possible on the saest
amonnt of bone The fatteners here have hopes that
in the course of time they will produce hogs Win no
bones at all. "a the Chinese grow cherries anu
peaches without stones. The prize OF hohor PIX wac
again no Frenchman, but was marked "A Stranger
An American friend thought him English, OF tho
Suffolk breed.
I'm stairs were the chickens. turkeys, ducks, and
geese prepared for market, the butter room anu
cheese room and in the galleries round the nave.
the beams peas wheat, and corn grass seed' potoes
a great yariety-beets carrots, turnips, and q few
new varieties of cabbages.
The potatoes were not particularly fine. The most
noticeable seemed to me the Caillaud. which IS
classed among the round, yellow potatoes. Perhaps
op reading over the names in the catalogue, you VIII
| find MANY well known varieties. know them bet
| ter cooked than rawl
Perhaps, however there was nothing upstairs
more attractiyeunless it were the dishes OF beans
so prettily or elegantly marked, aud in such variety
than the capOns prepared for market The french
| have curious way of dressing fowls by which all
sembance to nature is destroyed and in the case OF
the capons the bird is subjected should think, to a
| press. BY which the body becomes white mass,
egg-shaped, with the wings legs and neck pressed
into the mass and, being lifted ont, leaving their
| ;ntd0los behind them. The poultry room was
| thronged with admiring visitors and oil the hnest
specimens marked as sold to the famous resta-
rants-Choyet of the Paais Royal having secured
| the greatest number Of specimens. The
butter room was another curiosity and
/ am sure if there had only been o bread
room near, the two would somehow have come
together and walked out of the Palace in the persons
of 800 of greedy-loooking visitors, among whom
! frankly class myself As it was, great many
| peope could not keep their penknyes In their
pockets and those who did not have their penknlves
used their finger nails. l AIN bound to say that
though no temptation could have been greater than
this most beautiful and tastefully put up butter
was saved from respassng with either OF these use
| full implements.
| As for the cheese, it was like Hamlcts uncle's
oiense and did not stay long, though recognized
that the contents of the were fearfully
and wonderfully made. COleridge wonld have
written another sonnet if lie had visited the cheese
chamber and perhaps givenit the prize over Cologne
But you cannot brighten Frenchmen with frontage,
and the vast majority of the rural visitors certainly
divide their time between the pigs and the cheese.
Well, they are both honest taste enough and shall
| not quarrel with them C. c.