* We cannot qui e agree with our correspondent about the deer - unless his remarks apply to our wild deer. The deer of the English parks are perfectly tame, and as easily kept within bounds as any of our cattle. We do not see

If he delight in a horse, and inclines to breed a colt or two, which may grow up on his farm and make a good family beast or a match of them, for his own riding or driving, let him get one or more fine young, healthy mares, as breeders, and turn them into the park. Let them be at least half-bred "turf horse" in blood. If three-fourths or seven-eights of that blood, all the better, if well selected. They will be great in "wind and bottom" for the road. A mare or two of such material, with each a colt at her foot, will be a beautiful and characteristic ornament to the grounds in summer, keep easily through the winter on the common "fodder" of the place, with a little grain, and grow up to profit and future usefulness. If he love cattle - and he has little business in the country if he does not - let him get, according to his area of ground, one, two, three, or more, well selected Short-horn, Devon, Ayrshire, or Alderney cows, as his soil and fancy may direct, and turn into his park; and if he have still more room, a dozen or two nice, well-bred South Down sheep, to graze after the cows, and give him choicer mutton than any he can find at the neighboring butchers, or even better than he can get out from the city.

If his soil be strong, and his pastures rich, he should take the Short-horns for his cows. They are the largest, most imposing and profitable of all others, where feed is abundant; will give "a bushel" of milk in a day, of the richest quality; and, scattered over his grounds, with their beautiful silky colors of white or red, or more usually, both intermingling in every variety of shade, present the most picturesque group imaginable, as they graze, or stand, or lie ruminating among the trees. If the soil be light, and the pasture shorter, let him adopt either the Devons, the Ayrshires, or the Alderneys. They are all good milkers, when properly selected, and for his governance I will describe them briefly.

The Devon is a medium sized animal, deer-like in its appearance, a full cherry red in color, with a clean delicate head, a high spreading horn, a clear prominent eye, and of perfect symmetry in figure; light, agile, and beautiful; she is docile, perfectly hardy, and easily kept.

The Ayrshire is the "dairy cow" of the Scotch lowlands; a great milker, an exceedingly pretty animal, of medium size, a deep to light red and white in color - the red largely predominating; a low, yet delicate horn; not so light and graceful as the Devon in figure, but of a most domestic, housekeeping appearance, and as useful and profitable a creature as lives.

The Alderney, Jersey, or Qurnsey cow, for she is called all these names - is the cow of the English islands on the coast of France. She is largely kept on the Isle of Wight, and in Hampshire and other southern counties of England, by the gentry, for her rich and creamy milk, and delicious butter. She is small in stature, meek and somewhat inferior in appearance, a "crumpled" horn, red and white in color, quiet in temper, usually low in flesh, and requires good feeding to keep her in condition when in milk, and at no time presents that beautiful and imposing appearance of the other breeds. But her usefulness is unsurpassed; and a herd of Alderneys grazing in a pasture, or park, or a paddock, are a pretty sight to look upon.

Either of the above varieties of cow are profitable, as well as ornamental animals to the park or pleasure grounds; and when selected with an eye to their milking qualities, in which they usually excel, none others can equal them. Their value, according to blood and quality, with the breeders, is from $100 to $250 each, but those wanting them for milking qualities alone, and not requiring those choice and high traits of "blood," to which professional breeders attach so much value, may readily obtain them at prices varying from $75 to $150; and many of them, for milking alone, are worth either sum named, better than a common cow is worth her usual price in market.

The South Down sheep is a good sized animal, with a snug, compact fleece of medium quality; a black or dark brown face; robust in its figure, and of exceeding ripeness of points. It is emphatically the "mutton sheep" of England, with a dark, venison colored flesh, arriving at early maturity, and giving a "saddle" and "chop" equaled by no other sheep among us. They are exceedingly gentle and quiet in their habits, hardy in constitution, prolific, and easily kept, either in a lean pasture, or in the straw yard. Their value, thorough bred, ranges from $10 to $20.

If a lake, a pond, or running stream lie within the park, the large African, or the White or Brown China, or the Bremen Goose, is a most ornamental, as well as useful water fowl. The African or China, has the long arched neck, and all the grace and beauty of the Swan, and their cry at a distance, is really musical. They are fine and delicate in their flesh, very domestic, and in all but our most northerly climates, quite hardy. They are, with abundance of water, a decided ornament to the pleasure grounds.

There are many spacious grounds and extensive farms in several of our states, where fine herds and flocks of some of the varieties of cattle and sheep described, are kept and bred in great purity, and easily accessible to those who desire them. No well managed country establishment, either of the professional farmer or amateur, can be complete without a specimen of some one breed of choice animals upon it; and when we in America, shall have learned the true art of country life as they understand it in England, no place of any pretension will be found which shall not embrace more or less of these fine varieties of stock within its enclosures, as giving character, finish and effect, to its appointments.

My remarks on this subject, may, I am aware, be thought to "smell of the shop;" but convinced, as I am, that in the United States we are most lamentably behind the times in this important appendage to our country establishments; and referring to a recent conversation with you on this subject, I thus "give tongue" to my thoughts. And I will only add my entire conviction that he who seeks one of the highest enjoyments of country life, can do no better than to cultivate a taste, both in himself and in his family, for the appreciation of fine domestic animals, in which they will find some of their purest and least expensive pleasures. It is so with many who from entire indifference, have become enthusiasts in their love of them; and for my self - though it be egotism to say it - in my own island park of some hundreds of acres, I find no serener pleasure than with my honest shepherd dog at my side, to stroll out among my Short-horns, my Devons, and my South Downs, and amid the summer beauty of woods, and grass, and waters, to call them around me in their joyous fulness, and commune with their gentle natures as one entrusted by a kind Providence with the care of his subordinate creatures, and whose bounty in their beautiful creation, it would be guilt in me to neglect.

Lewis F. Allen.

Black Rock, N. Y., Feb., 1851.