BRITISH POPULARITY.
Within the last month or so Aberdeen Angus and Ayrshire cattle, mountain sheep, have been bought in Scotland for Canada. A very large number of Romney Marsh sheep and Berkshire pigs have been sold for export to widely separated farms. Some of the most eager buyers came from Brazil, which is going ahead in many forms of primary produce ; and they competed with buyers from Kenya and South-Africa. If you look as you pass into the windows of Australia House you will see a most persuasive coloured photograph of a characteristic scene entirely populated by white-faced Herefords. Wealthy farmers from the United States have lately come over to buy Guernseys—not from the Channel Islands, principally, but from Southern England. The export of Shorthorns, of both sorts, of Southdowns, and of hilf a score of breeds with narrowly local names is almost continuous ; and now and again the breeder's ambition has been titillated by a four figure price for a ram or a five figure price for a bull. How proud and prosperous our farmers should be
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