Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-08-08

" Lie SOtI SIOP w IN
nit laborious, and requires incessant care
and diligence. In this respect the new
countries have immense advantages over
US; and when we compare our severe and
expensive cultivation with their little ex
pense and abundant returns we are often
half disposed to pull up our boots and put
on our hat and gloves. But then we
come back to the great and established
position, that agriculture in almost any
part of New-England having ordinary
advantages, when conducted with skill,
judgment and trugality, affords an ample
remuneration for all the toll and all the
expense incurred; and when We recollect
the multiplied social advantages which our
community presents over every new coun
try, and take another deep draft of its
invigorating mountain breezes, we throw
aside our gloves and put on our frock
again, and whistle to our team to 60
ahead.-N. E. Farmer
CROSSES.
We have heard the fear expressed
by experienced breeders, that the
individuals of the present stock of
Short Horn Durham Cattle, are too
nearly allied to propagate all their
peculiar and distinctive qualities to
their progeny. The remark was
meant, and is to be taken, as a gen.
eral one, applying as well to the
stock elsewhere in America, as to
that in Kentucky. The foundation
of this fear seems to rest in the fact,
that the race of cattle now most priz-
ed, the Improved Durham, being in
some sense a mongrel race of very
recent origin, its descendants are so
closely connected, that they are in
danger of degeneracy. 1t is feared,
that the vi COR of this race cannot be
maintained, because we have not all
those other races, by the union or
crossIngof which, the excellent quail
tiles identifying and establishing it,
were originally produced. The SUI
periority of this race is owing, not to
its possession merely of some pecul-
lar quality in higher degree than
others, but that it unites more points
of excellence. There are some
breeds which yield more milk, and
some which give more flesh; but
this gives almost as much milk, almost
as much flesh where it is most valu-
able and less where it is least-fat-
tens more kindly and rapidly-ar-
rives at much earlier maturity, and
is Of far more docile disposition ;
and these advantages render it in6n-
itely the best breed from which to
stock our farms. The importance,
therefore, of maintaining the purity
and vigor of a race, combining 50
many and so great excellencies, is
manifest; and, if the foundation of
the fear to which we have alluded
be we'll laid, our breeders should
promptly avail themselves of the adj
equate remedy against the degener-
acy implied. Whether that remedy,
if need be for its employment, shall
be found in the indigenous breeds of
the country, or only by recurrence
to the original breeds Of England,
whence this derived its excellencies
and origin, are questions which they
must investigate and decide upon
for themselves. We do not pretend
to offer any opinion on any of the
questions involved, nor do we even
own that we are impressed with the
fears which have brought them up
The subject, however, is worthy O.
examination by intelligent breeders
, and it is but respectful to the opin
ions of those entertaining these fears
to call attention to it. We invite
therefore, the expression through ou
t columns of opinions held by breed
t ers on the subject, trusting that what
e ever conclusions are arrived at, may
: be those best calculated to promote
> this great interest. In these calcare
- Gus lands of Kentucky, it is not like
! ly that the business of rearing cattle
e will ever be superseded by more
e profitable pursuits. That desert ptiol
: of soil is of all others best adapted
r to the growth of the grasses, whil
: no country is more productive O
l. corn. And should it be necessar
to resort to the root culture as an ad
ditional aid, we can pursue it nd IN
!, .fnitum. There is no danger, there
: fore, that we shall be eutstripped b,
II any other state in the great race c
n improving the breeds and rearin
e the most and best cattle. We hav
d great and ample means and abund