Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-01-18
The Attorneys Again.

@A0 xAAoSAAcyS A6aM.
Mr.. Anonymous says in the TINES of
January 1lth, at is an inaccountable fact
that the Wesiminsters Farmers Club came
out as they did in your last paper about
Attorney Cows" Very unaccoun,able
indeed, is it not Mr.. Anonymous Why !!
you should have been present at the Club,
and heard the beauty, size, hardness, ten
dency to early maturity of the Durhams,
De,ons and Holstein breeds spoken Of
with their other good qualities, while not a
single person extoled the Attorneys as
suitable in these points for either work or
beef. You should have heard one of the
intelligent and thriving" owners of the
Attorney stock say :. the Attorneys are
homely enough il that is all that is needed
for good mlkers." Then your nerves
might not have been SO sensitive to this
unaccountable fact" The fact is the
owners of Alderney stock will not as a
general thing claim qualities for this breed
which 0 not belong TO it and they will not
be shocked if they themselves or others
mention in the Farmers Club, some good
qualities as not pertaining TO that breed,
nor will they employ Mr.. Anonymous to
cry up their thrift and intelligence as if it
was point ever disputed. They would
be more apt so say: "Lord deliver us
from our friends"
Again Mr.. Anonymous says the Secre-
tary Of the Club reports of the Attorneys
They are regarded as homely, il-favored,
ragged, uncouth, Of feeble constitution,
hard to fatten.&c." Here is one comprehen-
sive statement given. But Mr.. Anonymous
dashes at it thus +" All these statements are
incorrect" 1t is a very easy thing for
person writing under feigned signature
to deny, without argument, every assertion
aud charge its origin upon he " warped i'm
agination "'of the writer he criticises. Let
us turn to the various reports of Agricul-
tural Societies in Mass, where the ques-
ton of the Attorneys has been agitated
and settled long ago. You will find one
almost cemmon testimony acknowledging
the entire inferiority of the Attorney breed
to all other selected breeds in comeliness
and in those qualities that make cattle val
liable for beef or work. The quantity of
milk under ordinary feeding will not equal
that obtained Gas by these .reports) from
the Ayrshire, Devon, Durham or Naive
Stock.
The distinguishing claim for the Alder
ney breed is the richness of the milk and
the superior quality of butter and fair
quantity, when compared TO the size of the
cow This is fair statement of the case.
To nail this subject. the words of Sand
ford Howard a man, who has done much
and is most favorably known throughout
N. E., as an importer Of valuable stock,
are here given as recorded by c. l.. Flint,
Secretary of the Agricultural Board of
Massachusetts, in his annual report for
1859, pages 204, POS.
THE Attorney breed takes it name from
a group of Islands in the British channel.
The cattle are supposed to have come
originally from the French coast. The
old stock of all the islands was delicate in
constitution, aud the shape Of many of
them was ragged and uncouth'. Their fat
tening tendency has been increased though
not generally to a degree that interferes in
iuriously with their yield of milk. The
Attorneys were introduced here upwards
of thirty gears ago and were at one
time quite common at the country seats of
gentlemen around Boston, but they gener-
ally failed for want of hardness"
Mr.. Anonymous next proceeds with the
remarks of Mr.. Eddie Pierce, who has
worked upon the farm where Attorneys
were kept, were sold has MIXED, has
cburned there &c., from week TO week and
knew all about the matter. MIR. Anony-
nous says" Other men quite as reliable as
Mr.. L. Pierce. &c." What does this man
who fires away behind the garb of an as
sumed name, mean to iasinuaie What
are the readers Of the TINES permitted TO
infer? Is not Eddie Pierce perfectly reli-
a5lea Mr.. Anonymous dares not under
his own name deny his iruthiulness. Then
why this comparison at all will pursue
such critic no farther. | have found that
lie is lame IN has positions. Mr.. Editor