They are too valuable to run the terrible gauntlet of oil-cake, bean and barley-meal, through which they must flounder on in cruel obesity to the prize.

Especially is this the case with breeding animals.

Mr.Webb's experience at his first trial of the process, will illustrate its tendencies and results.

Of the nine shearling ewes he "fed" for the Cambridge Show, he lost _four_, and only raised two or three lambs from the rest.

At the Exhibition of 1841, at Liverpool, he won three out of four of the prizes offered by the Royal Agricultural Society for Southdowns, or any other short-woolled sheep; two out of four offered at Bristol, in 1842, and three out of four offered at Derby, in 1843.