Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-09-20
January 23d, 1889.

profit.
| January 2sd, 1889.
! From the American Farmer.
| NEAT CATILE.-qaaAies Of DIFF:
ferent 6reeds-circumssances which give
preference to one ouer another.
No. II.
In No. IL of the American Farmer We
promised to 20 into this subject more in de.
tail at some more leisure n'osaent-Tlat
moment we begin to appreheud will never
arrive. When removed from Office by the
resislless power Of Executive will, on which
so many thousand better men depend for
bread, one Of the evils we apprehended was
,oant of occupation--a situation more dan.
gerous than The ttle-6eld--one to which,
without rare fortitude. no man can be
exposed with impunity. Instead however OF
| having nothing to do, we have never had less
leisure--We only wish that the pay was in
any proportion to the labor-we do not mean
the labor of editing the Farmer, but OF
maintaining the correspondence which has
already opened upon US from every quar-
ter about selling lands, horses, cattle, sheep
and hogs--their breeds and qualities, not
forgetting Morus Makiedufs. If an editor
charged, as does the lawyer and doctor for
his time when consulted, as he might fairly
do, he would make something to meet the
necessary demands of baker and butcher
Speaking of the butcher, let US return 10
cattle.
On looking over the best authorities, we
find the general impressions expressed in
favour ofthe North Devons, for the Atlantic
and especially for the slayc.holding states
fully confirmed.
But it may be well in the onset to lay
down the points that constitute good form
for instance the head and neck should
be light and clean, the carcass large, the
chest deep and bosom broad, with ribs
sanding out full from the spine, approach
ing the barrel form, and running well home,
leaving small space between The hips and
short rib. This form allows room for the
play and action Of the lungs and heart,
generates more blood and gives it freer
circulation, and greatly contributes to the
soundness of The constitution. In mich
COW the thighs should be thin, and the udder
hin and flabby when empty, standing well
forward. with largh milk veins. In the bull
or OK the thighs should be full and come low
down, the tail SMALL and legs short, clean
and not large. The Holderness breed on
which the Short Horn has been built, had
large shoulders and coarse necks 4; the
sides were fat and the head thick ; the
coarse parts we're bulky, and the prime ones
reduced in size, and they were almost the
reverse of what the agriculturist would Sc
lec.. They were however bukier than the
native breeds, and they were better mixers
than the generality of The cattle Of that day.
They would by dint Of feeding, grow to an
enormous size, bu' they had not the aptl-
,ude to fatten, nor the early maturity, to
which they have been since indebted for
their triumph over every other breed" Such
are the observations of the Rev. Henry
Berry, in the best history ofthe Short horns,
{of phich he is large breeder and seller }
which has appeared, published lately in the
Whip in New York. We shall transfer it
to the American Farmer at an carly day.
We venture again to predict that whenever
the Short.horns are exposed TO the same
careless treatment that cattle are in the re-.
gion we have described, slinted in feed, and
left ad hbitum % breed promiscuously, they
will goback to their original unthrifiy coarse.
ness, and become inferior to our country
cattl-, which nature, doing always what she
can to ress, mans abuse and improv'dence
towards her creatures, has adapted TO, and
made as good as they can well be under
their circumstances. But MIR. Berry IS o'
opinion that though the Hol1erness was
the base. We may say the voof Of the ims
proved Short horns. yet that The latter was
manufactured by filing in with other ma
ierials. "No reasonable doubts" says he
can be entertained that they proceeded
on iudicious system Of crossing ,Oith otae'
breeds, because it was utterly impossible te
raise such stock as the Teeswater from
pure sholt horn (meauing Holderness
blood. One crop to which they referred
was in all probability the white '0ih breed
and if this conjecture be well founded,
will be apparent whence the Short horns
derived color SO prevalent among them
The dam Of the bull Hubback, the Godol
phin Arabian, of the short horns, we ar'
told was owned by person in indigen
circumstances, who grazed bis COW in III,