Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-04-05
From the Franklin Farmer.
THE SHORT.HORN FEVER IN
KENTUCKY.

The Culliyator and GenneSSee Farmer
were prophecying short time ago, that the
cattle fever in the west would soon reach
crisis. Those who are gifted with the splri;
Of prophecy never fail to find the facts
which verify their predictions and accord.
lngly, the last number of the Cultvator, in
nuticing the price Of COW which was late.
ly sold for $4,000 in Kentucky, announces,
that "this is the climax.'' The fever, hav-
inc reached its crisis, according to theopin.
ion of the Cultva,or, we wonder that paper
had not advised its readers whether the pa
,ent would die or get well. Judge Bue! is
uuques,ionably an excellent farmer and
writer, but clearly he is no doctor and if
he were, he could not feel the pulse of
patient, at his distance, from Kentucky
Bu, if our worthy contemporary will honor
our Stale by visit, we promise to accom-
pany him to the farm of every prominent
breeder, and he will then be able to study
and learn the true pathology of this disease,
which at distance, appears SO frightful.
We will point HIM to the glorious blue.gras
pastures, and the immense fields Of "meal,
meadow and manure" abounding in Ken
lucky; we will show him estimates of the
exports oClve.stock from Kentucky 20 eve.
ry quarter fthe vast south; we will prove
to him the great demand for improved ami.
mails of any description, not only existing
in Kentucky, but the whole valley Of Ms
sissppi, and which cannot be met, we will
poin: him to the spirit which is exhibited
here Of substituting superior for inferior
stock, and to the willingness Of paying ut
present comparatively high price in view
of the vast advantage which must ultimately
resul, from rearing good animals, instead of
bad ones; and we think he will acknow
ledge that these are undoubtedly some of
the predsposing causes Of this great mala.
dy. Will yor come, Judge I've promise
you shall graduate before you return to the
oorth.
The "cAmar," however, we think, is not
yet attained in Kentucky. The gentlemen
who paid $4,000 for COW, have refused an
advance on that price for her. One half
of the $4,000 COW and calf has been late
purchased by the owner of the other half, a:
an advance on cost. We do not pretend 10
say tha, higher prices than these will here
after be given. for the ANIMALS TO which
we have alluded, are considered extra su.
perior but we are confident that the pre-.
sent curren; rates will be sustained for some
time TO come. There is not the least symp.
tom Of that decline which invariably fol-
lows u ''ciimar." In saying this, however,
we do no: wish 10 be understood as advoca.
ting the proprieiy Of every farmers giving
these enormous prices. For the good Of
the breeding interest, and in view Of the
more rapid and general spread of the Dur
ham cattle, we wish they could be sold at
prices that would justify every farmer in
substituting them for inferior breeds of the
county. Purchasers can in general, buy
Durham cattle in Kentucky as low, if not
lower, than they can get animals of equal
quality in England, and hence the presen,
current rates will not probably decline very
shortly. Bu. we should rejoice 10 announce
such decline as would enable al 10 Pur-
chase although we think those cn'crprl-
sing pioneers who have risked so much
money in Introducing them into the coun'rv'
ought 10 be amply remuueratcd. We
learn that several individuals and compa.
nes in Kentucky, having heavy capital,
have gone or sen, agents TO England to
purchase more improved stock Of every
description and this at Il time too, when,
it is understood, the price Of superior cat
tie has advanced fifty per cen, in that coun.
try.