Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-03-06
abuse of the dam believe you can whip
MANY bad traits into the offspring.

has as much to do with it as dam. A
poor COW crossed with good sire and no
improvement better be let alone. We
expect what lacks in one will be made
up in the other. Pedigree is of impor-
lance because it enhances the price and 1t
is money we are after. Durham cattle.
There may be good mixers made by
proper breeding by cradicating certain
properties and migrating others. A COW
that gives the most milk, the heaviest
amount, is net the greatest butter maker
for believe the lighter particles of milk
are cream. Many reputcd bloods are
false, people get disappointed, get bad
thing and a bad idea of them. 1t used
to be said good mixer must be long,
slim-necked gaunt animal. don't be-
lieve it. 1t is also said that an animal Of
perfect symmetry will not be good milk
er This I do not believe. l am some
what in the thorough bred Durham. /
think that will not or does not bias me
one way or the other, neither does it per-
feet my judgment in the matter. The
Durhams originated about lao years ago.
Collins, Bates and others in England, be-
lieve best to breed " in and in"
M. w. DAvIs.-No greater subject
presents itself to the agricultural mind,
than the subject of breeding domestic an
imals, undoubtedly scientifically speak
ing is paramount TO all others. 1t Is a
law of nature that like begets like, and
l hold the ground that the true system is
to breed in and in, that is seek for that
blood which is pure blood approximating
as near as possible to this line, struggling
for the true path at each successive gen
Grafton, and then hazard not to depart
from it, (for it will be experimental and
the result will be course of thorough
breeding as / term it, and you viii have
implanted within your animals, l care
not whether sheep, horses or cattle (for
each are governed by the same law a
fund of such desirable characteristics
that you can depend upon their being
transmitted to their offspring and time
will under such treatment unfold that
noble property in our animals, viz sim
ilarity, which is so much sought for, es-
pecially in sheep. If raising horses for
speed make that a point; if for work
then that; cows for butter or beef, sheep
for wool or mutton, these areseparate and
distinct lines to be pursued, and when we
undertake to merge one into the other to
create new specimen or to marguerite
new properties, it calls for the aid of
nothing short of scientific principles most
juiiciously applied. We love similarity
when we advance towards perfection.
We like to have our horses and cattle
easy to match in pairs, our sheep of the
same grade, producing wool, feeeces of
which the eye has no power to discern
but little if any difference, the lambs all
uniform in shape and staple of wool
each model of the other, not here and
there one long-legged, fat sides, high
hips, hairy fanked, while the remainder
are low, round, square, compact wool
denoting but one grade. This is the eff
feet of judicious or injudicious breeding.
other circumstances being equal. Breed
from the best, select your best dams and
best only if there are but few; for find
whenever there is developed a noble type
Of manhood, that nine times out of ten,
he had a noble mother, and not often a
mean specimen of father.
| believe that Campbell's success in
producinga good animal, was based upon
the securing of the very best selected
ewes, as the origin, taking two or three
here and there from the many focks
which he sought. would not disparagc
the noble sires he introduced, and es.
pecially would give more credit to the
old " Pomfret buck in behalf of Wind
ham county than any other.
Another reason why we should not de-
part from the line of ancestral purity, is
because during the principles of gesta-
ton the system becomes inoculated with
the constitutional qualities of the fetus.
and in part from the male progenitor
| that the peculiarities of the latter are so
engratted on the system of the female. as
to be communicated by her to anv off.
spring she may subsequently have BY
other males; hence now and then the
cropping out of Yorkshire calves, muly
looking colts, chocolate colored lambs
even from our fair races of stock-respec-
table breeders, then we should start right
as well as continue right. Don't be pc
nurious. Lay well the foundation, IT
will pay.
Voted to adjourn two weeks. Subject
for next meeting the " making of maple
sugar ?" also the subject of purchasing