New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-14
opp.r SALE OF sHoRT-HORN CATTLE.

plains. Dutchess County, New'York. IL has TAKEN
p,ace at this very early date because 81 'he Ieovai
Of the owner 10 different section OF country 1nu ''
.ale Of this fee grazing farm in which no mas had ~
sucoessfol a career, both as grazier, ana suDse-
o.snly stock breeder. Mr.. Tabers farm IS remark
ally well suited to the purposes above mentiono1'
The country is rolling ene afording IN It's valleys
warm Winter retreat, sheltered rom sweeping hortn-
esstsrly winds and on ,ts hills abundant pasturage OF
Nutritious grasses. From some local pecuharltles OF
coil. the famous bluegrass that has given renown TO
central Kentucky and parts OF southern Ohio springs
Cd heretoo ibdigenously, and making such thick
and 40 nutritious turf that cattle atten or give milk
seemingly as well as in other sections they do on
grain diet. Lands laid down in timothy or clover are
gradually taken possession ofby the native grass, and
we cav pasture fields which we assured had not
been disturbed by the pillow in generation.
Previous TO 1852 Mr.. Taber had made regular
busiess of purchasing cattle Of drovers, fettenng
them. and then sending them 10 this market; and
being il is said, capital Judge of stock his career
was almost a continued success. Having determined
10 do something in breeding stock for dairy purposes
he selected the cld.iashoned roomy shorhorns, and
CONNER ced by purchasing the bull Bdckooodsmon
ola gentleman in Canada At Col. l.. G. Mornss sale
of that year, he became the purchaser OF old Jane,
then in calf TO Lamarine Oh ,662 and imported from
England by that famous American breeder. Jane
nave him three calves after she sixteen years old,
and even then, being sold TO another person, che
dropped two more calves in successive seasons aud
died at the age Of 81 giving birth to the last of
her progeny.
In 1853 Aurora, aurora 3D. and Laura Sd, bred
by Paoh Lsthrop of South Hadey, Mass, were pur-
chased of Mr.. Vail of Troy and from these three, aud
three bought of Mr.. Lathrop himself, and old Jane,
the Taber herd has come. These dams have all been
fruitful. LENA Sd has given two heifers and three
bull calves; aurora, in the same ORDER is mother To
three bulls and two heifers; aurora I'd gave the
heifer Atbea winner of the first prize of the New
Yo,k State Society in 1854 and serward four hefers
and a bull while atlanta Sd, Aurei'o and Autumn
have done almost if not quite well for the owner.
aurora I'd has been very fine mixer, having given
thrtythree quarts day for week in June "on grass
only; and from this milk fourteen pounds of butter
were made.
We put the words ION grass only in quotation
marks, ton, te somewhat popular opinion. Persons
owning fine mich will say, she gave such and
such quantity of milk on grass only, not remember
ing that more milk and taking it all aud all, richer
milk, will be made on good pasture than from any
artificial food
Mr. Taber has aimed at breeding dairy cows, and he
has succeeded. His animals have not the pedgrees OF
some Of the famous We have seen, nor have
they the erge square frames and at-makug propen
sities for which other strains noted; they are
distinctly dairy cows and Of them very good.
The sale took place on Tuesday the 10th inst The
very ct weather of the four or five preceding days
was, on Monday evening, followed by a drepching
rain. and Il rained on Tuesday with occasional inter
go walls The day most unpropitious for a stock
Aale The cattle lying out in the storm all night were
punched and looked rough, many farmers remained a
bone who would have attended il the day had been
fair and in those present but feeble enthusiasm could
be aroused.
OF our agricultural celebrities noticed pres
.ent Col. Is. =. johnson Of the New-York State Agr-
cultural Society, the Hon. WIN. Kelly Ct Rhneneck
Samuel Thorne, the Graod Duke of American short
korn people and Peoi Lathrop Of Mass. Other gen.
uemen from the East and from Pennsylvania
vere the ground, al what with neghboring farm
ind the usual hangers On, there might have been
1 Npersons present. The pedigrees were not sufi
c entity fashionable to attract buyers from distance,
eli we nigh. have expected both large prices and a
I ger attendance In stock breeding the laws of Fash
ion sre memorable as they in the charmed
Giro h. q the MoFmseys. white calf viii not bring
the sAme price as roam will persons purchase
mott led-fseed RerefOrds il they get the white
faces People will pay for things in proportion to
being fashionable, in spite OF anything which might
be SUI ,eesed to the coitrsy by judgment or common
sense.
The frst LOT offered fol sale Laura, fne-look-
ing 70 omy cow vide in the hips and narrow in the
.hould re- with thin n,ck and flank, fair tail, in
tsiigep cvuntenaoce, ut rather large head, very
pretty lossy hide she had dropped calf the night
before, IN looking aiaer with maternal solicit
tude. Laura 81 was calve6 ia 1851, and, a we have
already said has given her present owner two helier
and two bull calves. Tue cow and calf were
started at 90, and ran up to $ho when they were
k0sked Of TO Paoli Lathrup. The cow sloue W.
estimate at 5000, but have ouht she will pay
her purchaser much money b, fore he has done
with Der.
No was Ahhea, Of prze-taking ia me- Her nose
IL somewhat dusty and her horns set on too straight
to suit our fancy; but at s22O at VII ch price she
passed into the hands Of Sylvauus " Ills of Long
Island she was deg cheap-our price for her being nj
least $3.50.
tSsn. a red cow was the third. Sd is good
square COW, and weighs between thirteen and four
teen hundred. She has curious pair of horns, and
they do not add much to her personal chsra Is They
make sharp bend after leaving the skull, ana are
straight TO the end and knoy like stick OF caanas
root more than anything else. Gem was K, 'osked
DOWN to S. W. Buffum of New-Hsmpshire, for $lOo,
ssd is worth the money.
CspAea, q roam three-y esr-old, out of Althes, by
Earl Of Warwick, is very nice animal, fine i'ped
and well marked almost throughout. Both she AND
her mother Ahea, have large milk marks, or escu n
cons nut she also inherits from her dam the dusty
nose. Ne estimated her at $780, She was started at
eiOo, ane became Mr. wlEss property *ls0.