The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . of afamily that has occupied one farm for over 200years. THE character of the stock at the markets showthe close approach of Christmas, and thenext fortnight will see the great majority of theChristmas sales of the season in full swing. Thereare some very good stocks to come forward, if onemay judge from the comments of those who arebehind the scenes, but the very great bulk of fatwhich was shown by some of the animals of a fewyears ago will probably not be sought after by thefeeders ever again, unless the public taste is the demand
The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . of afamily that has occupied one farm for over 200years. THE character of the stock at the markets showthe close approach of Christmas, and thenext fortnight will see the great majority of theChristmas sales of the season in full swing. Thereare some very good stocks to come forward, if onemay judge from the comments of those who arebehind the scenes, but the very great bulk of fatwhich was shown by some of the animals of a fewyears ago will probably not be sought after by thefeeders ever again, unless the public taste is the demand now for prime meat rathertending to red than white in all classes of cattle. ASIGNIFICANT statement was made at ameeting of Devon agriculturists lately bythe Right Hon. Sir John Kennaway, who pointedout that during the last thirty or forty years, some-thing like eighty-four Acts had been passed whichadded to the burdens of local taxation. This hadbeen met by an attempt at readjustment of theburdens by the passing of the Agricultural Photo ljs) [/. T. Newman. Our illustration above is of the Shorthorn Cow Minnie, which was placed Second inthe Class for Single Cow of Any Breed or Cross, in milk, at the recent LondonDairy Show, but has now received the First Prize in consequence of an objectionagainst the First Prize winner at the Show having been sustained. Minnie isthe property of, and was bred by, Mr. J. L. Shirley, Bletchley. 640 MARK LANE EXPRESS AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL November 25,1907 THE Acb was of course of some immediatebenefit to the agricultural ratepayer. It isstill of benefit, but the farmer is again paying asmuch (and in many cases more) in rates as he wasat tho time the Act was passed owing to the manyforms of increase. THE root crops are now in almost all casesproperly secured. The results are better inthe case of cattle-feeding roots than were at onetime anticipated. Potatoes, however, are verydisappointing, and it is somewhat difficult tosecure really g
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