The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-06-07

Agricultural Division of tie Patent Office. The Neo Ag-
ricuturd Report We graed to learn that the next
agricultural report is in press, and is rapidly progressing
We copy the following, article horned cattle by Mr..
Browne which may be read with interest by all who
gagged in propagating domestic animals:
SHonr-HoRNEp DuRHAm cArrLE.-rhe short-horned
Durham, more properly the improved shorthorn It
is unquesonaby established is the most profitable
breed Of cattle for milk extant, provided they
furnished with suicency Of hea!thul aud nutritious food
enough animal arrives easily at maturity few sup
ply meat superior 10 quality and none give greater abund
breeds 1t has sometimes been urged however that short
horn liable to obesity, patchiness, or detective
eauentschronio or acute pleuisy and phyth
ss, and other pulmonary complaints milk fever, &C. &C.
ease and NO. doubt il many instances thew are heredary
But, admitting such to be the fact it by follows
plants than Hereords and Devons much
for the fact of earlier maturity being in favor Of the former
proves the greatest degree of health while experience
roborates forcbly this conclusion 1t has also
ona been asserted that in another particular the short
horns deficient they are considered to be but in
different mixers. This objection readily be by
crossing the best imported shorhorned breeds with
binary by of which good mixers generally
be insured.
laying the foundation of this breed has
conceded Charles Colng, OF Ketton, Darlington in
England but that improved shororn existed long before
his cannot be doubted the spirit of improvement in
the breeders Of the old commenced the valley of
proved modern breed These Efforts begun by Sir William
Quinn, and carried BY Mr.. Milbank, Of Birmingham
nearly SUCCESS
pears have been in the formation of proper conception
Of what this breed should be- both to handle and
try well the careful selection of such from compare
lively degenerate race and udciously breeding from them
afterwards. The original reewater, together with the
still breed known in the East Riding of Yorkshire
the holderness especially the latter "a large ungain
ly animal generally deficient in his fore quarters with strong
shoulders slow and Improbable to feed well being but
mddng beast for the butcher. The meat coarse to
the palate and unnvtng to the eye There was thus pen
ty of if much encouragement for producing
thing better and the task undertaken and entered into
with much spirit discrimination by Charles Cong con-
Jointly with Robert his brother The of these gentle
was, from the first considerable. They produced, by
udicious selections and crossings the celebrated bull hub
back which descended the best shorthorns Of
day. His origin, well pedigree, is Of course, some
what difficult to The most authentic record of this
bull find in the following extract Of letter from John
Hunter, jr, of Hurworh, near Darlington coupled with his
full pedigree, dated July 1922 given by Mr. George
Coates who contemporary of the brothers Coing ~
remember the which my father bred that the dam
of hubback there idea that she had any mixed
Kyloe blood in her. Much has been lately said that she
descended from Kyloe but have to believe
do believe that she had mixture of Kyloe blood In
her."