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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10421, 20 April 1897, Page 6

In its issue of January 1 the Live Stock Journal, in publishing a list of breeders of stock, agriculturists, and others who had passed away during 1896, •; remarks that the obituary for the year had not, perhaps, been so heavy in the agricultural and breeding world as in some other sections of the community, while not a few of those who passed away had more than reached the allotted limit of human life. To take the Shorthorn breeders first, there bad died the late Duke of Devonshire's agent (Mr. Drewry), who may be said to have built up the Holker herd, Mr. J. R. Singleton, Mr. E. W. Meade Waldo, Lord Fitzhardinge, Mr. P. H. Rowlandson, Mr, T. J. Graham Stirling, Mr. J. Strong, Mr. A. Britten, Mr. J. T. Noakes, Mr. Bagehaw, Mr. J. Piatt Tynte, Mr. R. Welsted, Mr. W. Johnson, and Mr. E. J. Smith, the four last-named being Irish breeders. M. A. Masse, whose herd of Shorthorns was one of the bestas it was almost the oldest—in France, had also died within the year, while the Hereford breeders who died include Mr. Fetherstonhaugh and Mr. W. J. Smith. Mr. H. Quartly and M r. William Hancock (Devons), Hon. T. W. Fitzwilliam (Aberdeen-Angus), and Mr. Cecil Dixon (Jerseys) were among the deaths; while of sheep-breeders there bad died Mr. John Bryan (Oxfordshire Downs), Mr. W. Sanday (Leicesters), Mr. G. Torrance (Border Leicesters), and Mr. John J. N. Borthwick, a sheep-farmer in Scotland. Mr. H. Maskelyne was the only prominent breeder of pigs (Berkshire) who nad passed away, but among those connected with heavy horses there were the deaths of Mr. James Park, Mr. James McQueen, and Mr. James Galbraith (Clydesdale), and Mr. G. H. Spraggon (Shires). Breeders of thoroughbreds like Colonel North (who also had a stud of Hackneys and a herd of Shorthorns), Baron Hirsch, Colonel Jesse Lloyd (Ireland), Major Stapyton, and Mr. R. Bell, and of Hackeys like Mr. P. H. Rowlandson and Mr. Martin, bad died since the Ist of January ; also Mr. Stodart, so well known as a judge at horse shows; Mr. W. Scotson, one of the most enterprising agriculturists in Lancashire; Mr. Andrew Blake, the Queen's agent at Osborne; Miss Georgiana Ormerod, the entomologist; Archdeacon Denison, who was a frequent writer on the subject of cheese manufacture; Mr. Walker, the York horse auctioneer; Mr. H. Bamford, implement maker; Mr. G. Williams and Mr. J. I). Barford, well-known veterinarians; Mr. Alexander Macdonald, late farm editor of the Field; Mr. James Nelson, founder of the firm of Messrs. James Nelson and Sons, and for many years a cattle salesman in Liverpool; Mr. Joseph Mylchreest, "the Diamond King," who, after his return to the Isle of Man, devoted considerable attention to the improvement of cattle and sheep • Mr. John Usher, Mr. John button, and the Marquis de Dampierre, for eighteen years President of the Soci&i deß Agriculture in France; Professor Emil von Wolff, a well-known writer on food standards; and M. Pasteur. Nor would a reference to the losses of the year be complete without mentioning the deaths of those two veterans of the hunting field, Lord Macclesfield and Mr. George Lane Fox, both well into their fourscore years, and both models .of the landlord and the sportsman.