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Title: Echoes of old county life : being recollections of sports, politics, and farming in the good old times
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Fowler, J. K. (John Kersley)
Subjects: Horses Country life
Publisher: London : E. Arnold
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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My Knightley blood always stood me in good stead,and so long as I could make from 150 to 200 guineaseach for yearling heifers, I had no cause to grumble.I think the best and most useful purchase I evermade was by my giving 50 guineas for a three weeksold white bull calf, King Charming, one of the Batesand Charmer tribe. I used him for three years withsuccess, and then sold him to an eminent dairyfarmer near Aylesbury for 120 guineas. Nothing canbe more disheartening to breeders than the wretchedprices which shorthorns have lately made at sales ; thethousands have dropped to hundreds, and the hundredsto twenties, and it is now a rarity to find a sale atwhich the average is more than forty guineas, whereasmine, which had no pretensions to rank with manyothers, ran to an average of ^104 each, and LordDunmores realized over 540 guineas each. The ingenuity with which Hodge and his confreresmanaged to twist the names of my cattle used to amuseme. I had a cow called Alberta, but my man per-
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^ POULTRY BREEDING. 235 sisted in calling her All Butter; while he called myChevalier barley the Shrivelled ear. When I wasjudging farming in Worcestershire the owner of one ofthe competing farms recommended us to eat one of hispears, which he called the Bronchitis ; we discovered, onlooking at the label, it was the Bon Chretien. But,for an excellent misnomer, the following always com-mended itself to me :—The Clerk of the Peace for thecounty of Bucks had a very good garden, and was ac-customed to present the Chairman of Quarter Sessionseach quarter with a bunch of a well-known rose, calledLa Rose des Quatre Saisons ; his gardener always per-sisted in calling it the Rose of the Quarter Sessions. Poultry-breeding and rearing has for many years beena special hobby of mine. I have contributed occasionallypapers on this subject to the Farmers Club, and in 1885,I think it was, I stated my views and experiences in thematter to a representative of the Daily Nezvs, whoappeared in the midst

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