Thomas's Massachusetts spy, or, Worcester gazette. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1811-1821, 1821-05-09

.heep during the late war with England, and
for the mere nse of New-Leicester tup. be-
fore that event, and while the fun blood was
confined to one man, afiorded,ample proof that
farmers do not Hesitate 10 risk high prices for
stock, when reasonable probability exists Of
obtaining quickly an interest for capital adj
vanced; and when we reflect that the amount
Of the losses sustained by those concerned in
preparing the objects for the late show, and of
two former similar exhibitions, would be much
more than sufficient to secure to Pennsylya-
MIA pair of the breed of cattle in question, it
is to be regretted that so much money should
haye been thrown away without producing
any permanent benefit to the country. Our
farmers rejecting that, by crossing the best Of
their own stock, or the best they could procure,
with the foreign breed, they secured portion
Of a distinctive, strongly marked race, the
characters and valuable properties of which
would certainly increase as they advanced in
the blood, would be led to make the experi-
ment; and the qualification derived from the
thriving disposition and beauty of form exhib-.
tied in the progeny shortly after their appear
ance on their farms, would stimulate them to
Its repetition and when, after few years,
they found that the new breed furnished more
and richer beef, at much earlier age, and
with less feed than is commonly required for
native stock, and richer milk, and better work.
ing oxen than they before had, their minds
viii be made up as to the exclusion of all other
breeds of horned cattle from their farms, But
this is not all-their stock will be viewed by
their less enterprizing and more cautious neigh
bours ; motives of interestand self-satisfactioh,
derived from the treasure in possession, VIII
excite the owner to diffuse a knowledge of its
value, which will be every year more and
more enhanced, and the demand for it be en-
larged, from the increasing Numbers annually
engaging IN the agricultural life Hence a
source of revenue whl be secured to himself
and family
The peculiar marks which designate this
breed from all Others are, capacious barrel
shaped bodies, straight backs, broad loins,
small neck and head, full chimes, leaving no
hollows behind the shoulders, clean chaps,
bright and prominent eyes, deep chests pro-
jecting well before the legs; fore legs clean,
straight, and standing wide, not knock kneed,
Cor in-kneed $ wide hips and round rump
lying in horizontal direction, not sinking back
wards; the tail set on so high as to take in the
same line with the back and, lastly, small
bones.
There is another breed of cattle, the Scotch,
or Kyloes, well deserving the attention of the
American improver, on account of their eX-
treme hardy constitution and tendency to ear
ly fatting grass alone, and of their filing up
a vacancy in the supply of good beef about
August and September; time when the
heavy cattle of the preceding season have ali
been killed of, and the stock of the season
have not come in. Repeated experiments with
the Kyloes In England have shown, shat in one
summer, at four years old, they will reach
from 500 to 700 lbs. weight, with from 10 to 80
lbs. loose fat.
The great misfortune has hitherto been in,
the United States, as respects cattle, that al
though within the last 80 years, they have
greatly improved in form, owing to judicio1s
crosses between native stock, and occasionally
with foreign breeds that were introduced, yet
no blood has been kept squire, as to enable
any one to say he possessed race with char
acters so strongly marked, as would insure
their transmission to his OF her descendants
Our whole procedure in this business has been
. system of chance; and this want of certainty
IN our crosses has been one reason why SO few
have hestated to accept of high price for a
thriving calf which, had it been raised, might
have proved the origin of a valuable breed
it is full time to begin to conduct our opera
tions upon liked principles; and no time could
be more propitious than the present, when d
spirit for improvement, which the friends to
agriculture have been striving for many years
20 excite, is diffused through the United States,
and when foreign commerce has ceased to offer
those allurements which SO powerfully attract
ed our citizens, and drew off their attention
from internal objects.
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