The Farmer's magazine . i ?p rJBw /top •. THE FARMERS MAGAZINE. MAY, 1842. No. o.—Vol. V.] [Second Series. PLATE I. The subject of our first Plate is a Devon Bull, for which a prize of 30 sovereignswas awarded to W. Porter, Esq., of Hembury Fort, Buckwell, Devonshire, at *theMeeting of the Royal Agricultural Society, at Cambridge, held in July, 1840. Theanimal was bred by Mr. Quartly. PLATE II. THE DEATH OF THE ELK. TH5VS au inhabitant of northern latitudes; in Europe between the fifty-third andsixty-fifth degrees making a part of Prussia, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Lapland,and Russia. I
The Farmer's magazine . i ?p rJBw /top •. THE FARMERS MAGAZINE. MAY, 1842. No. o.—Vol. V.] [Second Series. PLATE I. The subject of our first Plate is a Devon Bull, for which a prize of 30 sovereignswas awarded to W. Porter, Esq., of Hembury Fort, Buckwell, Devonshire, at *theMeeting of the Royal Agricultural Society, at Cambridge, held in July, 1840. Theanimal was bred by Mr. Quartly. PLATE II. THE DEATH OF THE ELK. TH5VS au inhabitant of northern latitudes; in Europe between the fifty-third andsixty-fifth degrees making a part of Prussia, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Lapland,and Russia. In Asia it is found further south, from the thirty-fifth to beyond the fiftiethdegree, spreading oyer Tartary, and abounding in Japan. In America it resides betweenHie forty-fourth and fifty-third degrees, round the great lakes and over the whole ofCanada and New Brunswick. The method of hunting these animals is somewhatcurious, particularly in Canada, where the hunters enclose a large space with stakes andbranches of trees forming two
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