Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-07-12

ONE, and not seldom of loose, disjointed

| 10 this breed Mr.. CoAing resolved to
resort; and though at the time when he did
So the event was regarded with some de-
gree of ridicule by the pure blood advocates,
and comments passed which would have
deferred ordinary men from the exercise of
their judgment, Mr.. Colling persisted.
he was much favored by circumstances
N promoting his object, which was 10 take
one cross and then breed back to the short
horn,-the only course, by the way, in
which crossing can be successfully adopted.
10 breed from the produce ola cross d.
rectty among themselves will lead to the re.
suits which have induced many persons,
without due consideration, to believe con.
elusive against crossing; but to take one
cross, and then return and adhere 10 one
breed, will, in the cross of few generations,
be found to stamp variety with sufficient
certainty.
Mr.. Ceilings short horned bull Boiling
broke was put TO beautiful red. .polled Gal
loway COW, and the produce, being bull
calf, was, in due time, put to Johanna, q
pure short.horn,-she also produced a bull
calf. This grandson of Boliugbroke was
thu sire of the COW, Lady, by another pure
short horned dam, and from Lady has
sprung the highly valuable family Of i'm.
proved short horns, termed, in reproach. the
alloy. How far the alloy was derogatory,
let facts testify
| 1t will probably be admitted that the pre-.
iudice against this cross was at the highest
at the time Of Mr.. Charles Ceilings sale.-
The blood had then been little if at all, in
troduced to other stocks, and It was mani.
festly the interest, whatever might be the
inclination, Of the many breeders who had it
not to assume high ground for the pure blood,
and to depreciate the alloy. Under these
untoward circumstances for the alloy, what
sad public opinion, unequivocally certified
by he stroke Of the auctioneers hammer ?
LAZY. before mentioned at fourteen years
old, sold for two hundred and six gu,neas.
Countess, her daughter. nine years old for
four hundred guineas. Laura, another
daughter four years old, for two hundred
and ten guineas. Major and George, two
Of her sons, the former three years old, the
latter calf, for two hundred euineas and
one hundred and thirty; beside number
of others. more remotely descended from
Lady, which all sold at high prices in fact.
in sale offor.y.eight lots, realizing f7ll5
It's. Lady and her descendants sold Tor
q larger sum than any other fa'nily optaln'
ed.
AS specimen ofthe alloy, the reader is
referred to Mr.. Bery's COW. She gives
moderate quantity Of particularly rich milk.
Itwould answer no useful purpose, and
would certainly be an Objectionable course,
TO bring under particular notice any one or
more of the highly valuable stocks of i'm.
proved short horns ofthe present day. To
lenumerate all would be impossible; and
the writer Of this account would most s'udl.
ously avoid any partial or inviduous com.
comparison. The same objection does not,
heweyer exist as to remote period and
it is but Justice to state that MIR. Robert Col.
ling, brother of Mr.. Charles, (who certainly
was the leader, and surpassed all competi.
tors in the improvement ofthe short horns,)
Mr.. Charge of Newton, near Darlington,
and Mr.. Mason, Of Chiffon, in the county
Of Durham, were only second to Mr..
Charles Colng in his interesting and useful
pursuit. Mr.. Mason started early with
ANIMALS derived, It is believed, from Mr.. Col.
ling, in the very commencement of his ca
reer and Mr.. Charge, who had long pos.
sessed most veluable stock of Teeswater
cattle, had at an early period crossed them
with Mr.. Ceilings best bulls, and was one
of the spirited purchasers Of Comet, at a
thousand guineas. Mr.. Masons late sue.
cessful sale sufficiently stamps the value Of
his stock at that period, but it is generally
admitted, the system OF crossing with other
herds, which he had oflate years judicious.
ly adopted, proved highly instrumental in
restoring those qualities in his own, which
too close breeding had in some degree
threatened to deprive them Of.
1t would be unfair, on this occas ion, to
omit mention OF veteran breeder, 10 whom
the advocates for the preservation of pedi.
gree are indebted for the Short horn Herd
Book-Mr. George Coates. He is now
one Of the oldest authorities on the subject
in existence, and was once the possessor of
a very superior race ofshort horns, though
somewhat coarse. Portraits have been
preserved Of some very fine animals bred
by him i; and he had the solid satisfaction
to dispose of his bull Patriot for FIVE hun.
dred guineas.
Mr.. Coates fell into an error. but too com.
mon, and generally equally fatal: he fan:
cied his own stock the best, and dsdained
to cross them with Mr.. Ceilings ; which, as
others afterwards proved, would have been
a mos, judcious proceeding. The conse-
quence was, Mr. Ceilings sale having set
lied the public judgment and taste, Mr..
f,oafea' sfork Sell into disren,lte. If an