Intra-uterine influences, or as they are generally known among stock breeders, '* mother markings," writes li Bruni" in the Australasian, were probably well known to pastoralists before Jacob made use of them so effectually when ho took his uncle La ban's sheep on terms at Padan-Aram, and som3 very strange instances of thin have been recorded. In the "Transactions of the Highland Agri cultural Society, vol. 1.," tho following instance is given on the authority of Mr Mustard, an extensive farmer on Sir James Carnegie's estate in Angus " Ono of his cows chanced to come into season while pasturing in a field which was bounded by that of one of his neighbours, out of which field an ox jumped and went with the cow until she was brought homo to the bull. The ox was white, with black spots and horned ;Mr Mustard had not a horned beast in his possession, nor one with any white on it. Nevertheless, the produce the following spring was a black and white calf with horns." The well authenticated instance of the " U.S." cow bred by Mr J. B Poyntz, of Marysville, Kentucky, is even still more curious. He had some Alderney cows running in a field in which were several Government horses branded on the left shoulder with the letters US. The next spring one of the cows pro duced a calf with the letters US, formed of white hairs, plainly to be seen on the lower part of the shoulder. She in turn gave birth to fc calf which had the same letters marked in white hairs in the same place as the dam, but they were not so distinct. A good many years ago a supposed hybrid between a Now Forest pony and a red deer was exhibited in London. This was be lieved by Sir Benjamin Brodie to be the effect of the mare having been much in the company of red deer dur ing gestation. Hence the indication of a divided hoof and other resemblances, both in head and tail, to the deer. An instance of mother marking in merino sheep was lately brought under my notice by a sheep farmer of long experience in Victoria. 