. The corn and cattle producing districts of France. ood, would interfere very muchwith the selling value. The English are considered alsomore delicate than the Craon, and when any disease isabout they become unsaleable. This wasting of fat isprobably owing to the food, and better judgment milallow of prompt fattening properties being retained,without producing the sort of fat that runs away ingrease. This result is already partially attained, andthe cause of the objection to English blood is , however, as elsewhere with other animals, thecompetition of the English has produced
. The corn and cattle producing districts of France. ood, would interfere very muchwith the selling value. The English are considered alsomore delicate than the Craon, and when any disease isabout they become unsaleable. This wasting of fat isprobably owing to the food, and better judgment milallow of prompt fattening properties being retained,without producing the sort of fat that runs away ingrease. This result is already partially attained, andthe cause of the objection to English blood is , however, as elsewhere with other animals, thecompetition of the English has produced improvementin the local breed as resrards maturitv, and the Craonpigs are now brought fat to market at from eight totwelve months old. Hounds. Another animal, most unusual to find among thosein a farmyard, comes into the ordinary stock of aVendee farm, and that is the hound. They are rearedon the small farms, and it is considered more profitableto rear a hound than a calf. They are sold at largefairs held on the second Mondays of May and July, and. FOiTOU, 263 will make from £4 to £6 at from six months to a year The true Vendee breed is white with black-and-tan marks. They stand from twenty-five and a half totwenty-seven and a half inches high, their heads areclean, the ears not over long, the chest is deep, theloins arched, the tail fine, the ears and the palate areblack, their nose is good, voice deep, and wind excel-lent; they will keep on the scent for along time, andpick up a cold one. There are varieties in the breed,but the above qualities characterise each one. Thereis also a rough-haired breed, hardy and very King of Italy supplies his kennel from La Yendee,and his agents are said to spend £300 to £400 yearlyin this sort of farm produce. The chief packs in thecountry are those of the Count Carayon-Latour—whichare called of the race of Yirelade—Viscount de la Besge,and M. de Gruipy. The Count de Canteleu has a finepack of the rough bree
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