Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1847-10-01

under substantially the same circumstances, which cal
never be done among us. Our laws of inheritanc,
break up the family every few years, and they go II,
one knows where. In this particular the English have
greatly the advantage of us in making experiments or
various breeds of stock. And we probably shall FIND
it always for our benefit to resort more OF less to Eng.
land for superior stock for this reason. The hes,
means, Mr.. w. said, we have to avoid the evils, tina,
arise from this want of pcrnianence in our farming in.
tercsts, is to give more encouragement, and more per-
manence TO our agricultural societies. They are OF
ought to be permanent, and by keeping the attention
of the public upon the points of excellence in stock
may prevent the evils that spring from the migratory
character, that is infusing itself into our population.
In regard to stock, Mr. w. said, he believed the
words " blood,' and breed" and " high and low
breed" were not very accurately determined, but as n
general remark " high bred anj " blood was applied
to certain known stock, which possessed the strongest
6one for the size, the most tbrous, the roundest, the
most compact, and thus Tie strongest musclc, for the
size, and a certain nervous character. These cbarnc.
tcristics gave the greatest strength, the greatest agility
and the greatest endurance, other things being equal
1t was not enough that animals should have muscles
they must have them of the right kind, not full and
fatty, but round, ibrous, and irony. This he illustra-
ted by referring to the Hereford, Ayrshire and Durham
or short horned breeds, contrasting for n moment their
different muscular developement-one for hardness,
speed, endurance, the other for flesh and bulk. Both
good and superior in their place, and for their pur-
poses.
The Morgan horse was another illustration. His
excellence depended upon his blood, or his being
: high bred ! and he was good or superior in proper
ton as he exhibited blood. But there was a grca,
tendency to muscular development over and above
the best proportion of nervous development in that
stock, aud the result was they Were excellent business
horses, Tor any distance from six to twenty miles, but
they were not good all-day roadsters. Mr.. w. quoted
John RandolplIs remark, that even at the plough the
" blood showed itself by holding out at the last Of the
ddB, when the common horse was used up.
We are often deceived about hood animals in two
respects, we think them understood, and with small
limbs. 1t often happens that their symmetrical pro-
portions, like a well proportional house, make them
appear smaller than they really are, and their clean
slrlcwy limbs, with short hair, make them seem less
than they will be found, by actual measurement.
Men OF large experience have often been deceived in
this way, and the unpractised eye commonly is.
The " hill country" of Vermont is not SURPASSED by
any part of the civilized world for its ADVANTAGES in
rearing stock for all work, :" or flesh for I" all eating
Mr.. Geo. b. Shaw being called Tor. on the subject of
Horticulture, responded by saying in substance he
was a very modest man besides being very ignorant
i'll fact, he had just commenced his education, and
could therefore give little information to so intelligent
a body as the farmers OF the county Of Chittcnden
and then commenced n very interesting dissertation on
the subject of Horticulture, as applicable to every far
mcr in Vermont. He appeared quite " at home with
the subject, and showed conclusiycly that our soil and
rlInntp j. admirably Dlnut.1 tHr ,rr,vtinu o,n1as p,r,s
pluns. hardy grapes, &c. &c, and tina, no part Of Il
farmers labor made SO great or surcr returns as the
cultivation Of fruit that the demand was greater than
the supply, and our facilities for expectation such tina,
good fruit will always command a good price in the
county.
Mr.. Adams called on various gentlemen for infor-
nation on the subject of breeding " in and ill.," Ii
was said that Consul Jarvis has one flock of the NIcri-
no breed, which he imported himself many years since,
and has never suffered to be crossed With any other
sheep that on comparing recently the wool with sam.
pies taken when imported, it was obvious that the
wool was now finer, and the fleece heavier, aud the
sheep in better condition, but the increase Of lamb.
was not as great Us soon after their importation. Mr..
Skinner said a gentleman in New Haven told him he
had blind lambs, and that wool was coarser in cons,
quencc of breeding " in and in which was rcmcJi.,
by crossing that a man in Wiliston had a flock de,
preciaied by so breeding thought if the same law.
governed as in the vegetable world, it did not ncces
soriIy follow that so breeding was injurious. Mr.. vii
son said he had looked over an imported herd of cattl,
with n gentleman who said it had deprecated by i,
and in breeding. Mr.. W. thought it was caused by
inludlcious selections, and that no difficulty would b,
found with proper selection of stock in so breeding.
Mr., Adams called for information on the subject o
the potato rot. said he had noticed there were few
or no potato balls, and inquired whether this fact wa
not an indication that old varieties were running on,
and asked if the disease would not be avoided By rails
ing potatoes from the seed, Mr.. Wilson, in reply, sal,
no remedy had yet been discovered and that Seeding
or new varieties had been carefully tried in his neigh
borhood and the second year from the seed they ro;te,
as badly as any OF the old kinds.