The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-05-14

2yesrs old-all promising.
kissing STAR, brown mare, one white heel. |
by BashAw, Jr Dam by old Ethsn Allen
grand dam, BY Plato, splendid animal, show.
ing wonderful speed, and promising to become
'star OF no inferior brilliancy.
a tine sucking brown mare colt. by Crooks
hambletonian. Dam, Maria; by Waggoner; q
thoroughbred, and is probably the finest blooded
sucking ia this section.
Two span of high bred working mares, aud
some other colts all of good stock.
CATTLE
1t is in this department these stock rasers glo-
~. No purer booded or finer looking short
horned animals can be found in the west than
are theirs, great and small.
The first on the list is the celebrated Bull
NINA, yearling, deep red, noble in form and
action; weight 1870 lbs AS he stood on the
scales yesterday He is numbered 1894 on the
American Herd Book sired BY II Duke Air.
daire; dam, Nina one of the finest crossed thor.
oughbreds ever imported.
LII, a noble COW, three years old weighs
,6s5 pounds.
BEAUTY 3D, a COW named az she deserves, six
years old weighs 1906 lbs
ARABELLA. deep red, 1,54O lbs an animal
combining all the good points of her stock
Five yearling heifers, averaging over 900 lbs
each, and probably lot the best FIVE thor
Oughbred heters in the State ..
Among the splendid lot of calves are several
particularly worthy of mention
MAID OF Honor, red with white spots, not
quite three months old, weight iO3 lbs. sire,
18th Duke Airdaire, No. G,G29; dam, Lilac 9TH,
by Grand Duke, No. a.
Tor GALLANT, "a red coan, months old sire,
18th Duke, a. above; dam, Gen. Butler, ASS:
weighs $50 lbs
Besides these. are several others OF equally
pure blood and uuequalled pedigree Among
the curiOsities i, the celebrated mich COW, a
pure Ayrshire, weighing about a thousand lbs.
She is the greatest mixer we have ever seen,
and had We not seen her we would not have be.
heved II possible for any COW to give in one day
three pail. full OF milk. She does it, and on no
more than ordinary feeding. She probably has
no equal in this country, or for that matter any
other She will doubtless be sent TO the great
New York Fair this summer to compete for and
win the $1,000 prize offered for the best mixer.
The Neelcys' blcoded cattle comprise seven
teen cows and heiiers, besides several fine calves.
and when it i remembered that these cattle
bring from one hundred dollars TOR the smallest
and least pure b.ooded up to $1,000 each, and
that some of these three months calves alone are
worth from : 900 10 $4,000, the reader can have
some idea Of the imwense value of this little
drove of stock Several Of them have taken frs,
premiums at Rock Island, Davenport, and other
fairs, as they well deserved to,-an evidence of
the fine blood and thorough breeding Taking
this lot OF cattle together or singlv. we do not
believe they can be beaten in the west, and d,
the proprietor. propose tn add TO them from
time to time, aha 10 breed them finely as pos
sible, it is expected in time to make the Green
bush Stock the perfection Of all that science and
capital can possibly accomplish. .t.#
Much attention has been paid to getting pure
breeds of hogs. a large hog-house and conve-
nient yards, with pens and stalls, affords ample
room for fine drove OF porcine beauties. The
chief varieties at present are, Essex. Berkshire,
all thoroughbreds, from bes, imported stock, and
the pedigree of each of undoubted correctness
and reliability, SO that Mr.. Neeley can at once
turn to the herd books and his records and give
the correct pedigree OF every pig or calf he sells.
He has demands daily for more of this fine stock
than he can readily supply, orders coming to him
from Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin aud Iowa, as well
as hundreds from State, and especially,
of course from this vicinity; and already the
heighborhood around the Greenbush Farm shows
the benefit of having imported stock, in the
many fine animals TO be seen around on every
hand, all showing marks of good blood, and the
race of "runts' and scrubs is dying out and its
place filled with noble and beautiful animals,
which do not eat off their own heads annually,
but fill their owners purses with money.
We cannot close this article without brief
mention Of the superior poultry also kept at this
farm-Rne large Chickens turkeys, &c. We saw
hen egg, collected the day we were there with
several dozen others, worthy of notice. 1t meas
ured eight in shes around the ends, and six
around the bulge
FARMING.
Besides their great stock business, they by no
means neglect the soil. 1t is carefully cultiva-
ted, ON the best plans. They raise large and
profitable crops of grain, using the mos. ap.
proved farming machinery of all sorts. They
discard the old fogy, slovenly way OF half.doing
things and work on scientific principles. They