Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-12-08
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sheep, &c. Now, Messrs. editors, as am one
Of the residents Of central Iowa, what step,
shsll take to improve my borsssf ! want q
good, active, serviceabIe horse, that can nee
IN the plov. harrow. wagon. buggy, or to sad.
die. ! want horse with style, spirit and en-
ergy; can that combination be obtained from
any one part culsr breed. II not what breed
will come nearest TO IL what breed shall
stint my mares to, and where are they to be
founds l also want to improve my cattle Ny
three year old steers. will not weigh more than
seven or eight hundred pounds. so that it will
not pay to raise them. 1t takes them too long
brings q good price, and ready sale, but my
stock do not make beef enough. What breed
Of cattle will produce the largest amount Of
beef the fall after they are three years old p
In other words, what breed of cattle are capa.
bic Of taking on the largest amount Of beef In
the shortest time Are they q breed. Q croes,
or grsdef Where can they be bought or
leased, and what the probable cost / would
like to get some information in regard TO hogs,
but am afraid | have trespassed on you now,
gentlemen. but will say one word in relation
to our hogs. They can run faster jump higher
fence, and root deeper than any hog in the
United States, Mexico and Cuba not excepted
We need an improvement in our stock, and
would like you to advise what steps we should
take to make it, but we have some ''old fegies'
out here. that you can imagine, who are un-
wiling to make any improvement beyond that
taught them by their fathers. They turn up
their noses at agricultural papers, and book
fa,mers and scorn foreign cattle they will ar
gue,' there is neghbor Smiths cow-(if thev
have neighbor Smith, and what man has
not I)-who wants better COW than che il, and
h.h hon hor for at
Now Messrs. editors, if you will answer the
above questions, or part of them, you will
confer great favor on me, and no doubt many
others Of your readers.
Yours truly.
'RURALIsr"
We will endeavor to satisfactorily answer
"Ruralist," but find it somewhat difficult, as
We are not practical breeders, and have to
post ourselves up from the practice and ex-
perience Of others, as Well as agricultural
papers and reports We find there is no
trouble and doubt as to like producing like
il the sire and dam be thorough. bred for they
are 0 race. not a mere breed, cross or grade II
your mares are thorough breeds, and they suit
you, you should breed to thoroughbred stall
ions that also suit YOU; for they possess more
action, more style, more spirit and en- ergy,
and make better saddle and quicker work
horses, than any other. If your mares are of
no particular breed, We would also advise
you to stint them to thoroughbred stations:
for to be advantage, the pure blood must
come chiefly from the sires and not from
thu dams side. This is deduction from no
theory or set of principles, but fact proved
by the breeding experience of ages Howev-
er lure the blood of the dam, if she be
s,nted to animals Of inferior blood, the prog
eny will also be inferior to what they should
be, the half blood.
French psychologists opine-not without
strong reason for their faith-that the pure
female animals, once pregnated by an infer
Tor male from some unknown impression on
her nervous or generative system becomes
ever after herself so nearly hybrid, that
she is thenceforth incapable of producing
pure progeny, even to pure SIRE We
would recommend that you stint your mares
to thoroughbred stallion. that there is no
question as to the purity Of his blood, Of
such size as you require, and above all do
not try to improve the sires OF your small mares
by breeding them to horses much larger than
themselves. Nothing is more fatal as O mistake
than trying to produce great size, or even in.
crease of size by stintng under sized weedy
mares, TO great overgrown bulky stallions.-
The result is almost invariably i'll shaped, mar.
row chested, slabsided, leggy animals, with light
round bone, and often altogether defective in
balance and eounterpoise of points.
We know Of but two thorough bred stall
lion. in this State. "Goldfnder,' four wears
old, beautiful chestnut; for SIZE, boue, sin
ew and muscle, he has no superior in this or
any other country. There can be no question
as to the purity Of his blood. He was sired
by imported "Belshazzar," who cost $40 900 in
England. "Goldhnder's dam was out Of Ann
Merry, sired by Wagner" whose renown as a
race-horse extends from pole to pole; and why
should it not ? for he was the best racehorse Of
his day. In his three year old form, he travelled
over s 900 miles. with only three weeks rest
and defeated Kentucky's champion. Grey
Eagle" on his own soil. The contest between
I" Wagner" aud "Grey Eagle will long be re.
membered by those who witnessed it. "Wag-
ners' honors were nobly won he earned them
in field where every inch of ground wa.
closely contested That meeting has never
been equaled in the extent Of the sport or in
the number and character Of its visitors Not
less than ten thousand persona composed the
vast assemblage. A celebrated sporting jour.
nal gives the following description Of this race:
Several distinguished Senators, and nearly
the entire Kentucky delegation in Congress,
with their families; all the elite Of the beauty
and fashion Of the State were present. Amorg
the earliest on the ground to witness the race
were the Hon. Judge Porter. Of Louisiana, the
distinguished ex-senator, and Mr.. Clay His
colleague in the Senate, Mr.. Crittenden, coon
followed, with Gen. Atkinson. Major Steward
and Capt. Alexander. of the Army: Judge
Woolley, Gov. Poindexter. Judge Rowan, the
Hon. Messrs. Memf-e. Allan. Letcher, Hardin,
Graves, Hawes. etc. Among the guests Of the
club. we'll known to the sporting world, we
noticed j. S. skinner. Eeq, Of Baltimore, W.
N. Anderson, Esq, of Ohio, Col. c. F. NJ. No.
land, of Arkansas, the Messrs kenner, Mr. Sli-
cell. Mr.. Parker and Mr. Beasley, of Louisiana,
Mr. AcCsreo. Mr.. Beasely and Capt Bacon, Of
Virginia, Mr.. Geo Cheatham OF Tenn, Mrior
Flemi z, of Ala, and . great number Of 9th.
ers. whose names have escaped us. Good
breeding forbids On enumeration of the d.etin-
guished throng of bellies. The young miss,
just from the trammels of school, flush with
joy and fears; the budding. blooming girl of
sweet sixteen the more elegant, and stately