Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1857-09-10
Breeding Sh0rf.HOrnS.


MEssRs. TUCKER & SoN-I send you
an extract from letter [ have received
from the well known breeder of Short
Horns in England, and / think the most
successful one in symmetry and quail
ity-(Sir Charles Knightly.) He says:
elf is any qualification to know
my opinion as to the breeding of Short
Horns, l shall have great pleasure in
giving it you without reserve. My
chief objection to the breeding from
large bulls is, that one hardly ever sees
large animal of any description pos
sessing symmetry, and [ have always
endeavored to get as near perfection
in shape as l could.
'It is common, though think an
erroneous opinion, that by putting two
animals together, both faulty in shape,
but one having good shape where the
other has bad, that one will correct the
other. You cannot get a perfect herd
of cows-but by chance, care, and ex-
pense you may get first rate bull.
|'My first desire is to get good
shoulder. I think it by far the first
point to be attended to; and I believe
in general it is little attended to. |
may be wrong, but I have always set
my face against using an upright
shouldered bull. Not only do you
lose the best part of the beef, but 1 be-
lieve you lose constitution. No ami
NAL with an upright shoulder can have
protuberant bosom, and consequent
ly cannot have the same play for the
lungs, and the most common and fire.
quent disease of cattle proceeds from
the lungs. would, in short, were | to
use faulty bull, prefer that he should
have every imaginable fault, rather
than bad shoulder. The two great
faults belonging to the original breed
of Short Horns were upright shoulders
and large high hips, the latter of which
are very much the fashion in the north
Of England, but which I think de-
formity. It gives the animal the ap-
pearance of bad loin when it does not
deserve it, and causes the appearance
Of a hollowness between the hip and
the tail, which otherwise would not be
the case. 1t has been one of my hob
by horses, that provided the hips are
not too narrow, to have the hip joint
project as little as possible. | bought
the Duke of Gloucester contrary to my
own judgment. He had good flesh
and hair, but as his calves were young
when sold them, [ cannot form an
opinion as to how they would turn out
"Your countrymen have not spared
qlia7aeg which I have always thought the
most efficient way of getting herd
but unless a man understands the thing
himself, he will soon spoil them howev.
er good they may be-"
| consider Sir Charles Knightley
one of the finest old English gentle
men in that country, and l have long
! known his enthusiastic desire to breed
uniformity Of qisality-have perceived
lit in his herd. more than any othe,
breeders heyd of ShortHorns in Eng
land for many years, proof of whicl
was shown by his steers in Smithfeld
| The most uniform lot of three year oil
Short Horn steers, fifteen in number
Il I ever saw, was at Smithfeld, bred an,
fed by him; their quality and thei
symmetry corresponded, which muc
: Influenced me in favor of Sir Charlie
, Knightley's herd. I have alway
closely observed them since, and hav
r studied much from the information
5 have cleaned from him and his mod
of breeding. This is the reason I sen
7 you some Of his remarks.-Courtr
: Gentleman. VIM. Fl. SoTHAM. OaOeg
!, N. r.