. The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c. airly good entry of these, buttheir quality will bear improving. The Englishbred ewes had little difficulty in taking the lead,and there were also a few entries of local-bredoncis that came out very well. Mr. E. T. DamesLongworth, Mr. T. L. Hodgins, junr., Mr. Cleary,and Mr. Robert Downes were the chief exhibitorsof this breed, and some of the prizes fell to eachof them. Several very good specimens werebred by Mr. John Treadwell and Mr. J. [obbs in England. Hampshires. These were shown in increased numbers, butthere is a good deal of ground
. The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c. airly good entry of these, buttheir quality will bear improving. The Englishbred ewes had little difficulty in taking the lead,and there were also a few entries of local-bredoncis that came out very well. Mr. E. T. DamesLongworth, Mr. T. L. Hodgins, junr., Mr. Cleary,and Mr. Robert Downes were the chief exhibitorsof this breed, and some of the prizes fell to eachof them. Several very good specimens werebred by Mr. John Treadwell and Mr. J. [obbs in England. Hampshires. These were shown in increased numbers, butthere is a good deal of ground to be made up inthe way of quality before they can comparefavourably with the English sheep of this the entries were in the hands of one exhibitor,Mr. J. C. ilanbury, who was awarded all theprizes. were a small show, and all of them(very smart ewes) were in the hands of Mr. C. , who receives the prizes. Cheviots. These, too, were a very short supply, and thethree pens exhibited were all owned by Mr. JohnRob oil. By the death, at Cullompton, of Mr. JohnBlackmore, aged 90, a family of yeomen whofanned in Devonshire for seven hundred yearshas become extinct. Moorhaycs Farm, lit Yihchhe died, was for sixteen general ions ow ned bya family named Moore, the only daughter of the last male representative of which became thewife oi Mr, Bliiekmorcs grandfather. was one of the few remaining yeomenwho hud sole right in a pew at church, The Crops and Live Stock ofGreat Britain in 1905. On Friday the Board of Agriculture issued itspreliminary statement of the crops and live stockof Great Britain in 1905, compiled from returnscollected on June 5, and below we give the tablein full. Last years figures are also given for thesake of comparison ; increases are shown thus +and decreases —. It*will be noticed that the totalacreage under all crops and grass continues toshow marked decreases and is many thousandsshort of the total of last year, which
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