The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-02-15

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Vermont, New Hampshire, Western
Massachusetts,. and all the way from the
city of New York through the hill coun.
try TO Vermont, and in Connecticut east
of the river. West oil the river the old
stock are South Devon.) Tradition and
history both assure us that these lemon
yellow cattle were imported into the dis
trict of Piscataqua (now Portsmouth, N.
H. }, by Capt. John Mason and Sir Fer
dinando Georges, previous to 1880; that
Mason's agent drove one hundred oxen
of this breed to Boston in 1645; and l
am assured by the most intelligent Danes,
that these cattle are still to be found with
oil their peculiar characteristics in Den
mark. l am now arranging to get spec
linens from there and if they prove to be
as much like the Guernsey as the impor-
tations Of Mason and Georges, it will sat
isfy me Of their origin. AS to the origin
of the dark animal in Jersey, l am not
fully satisfied but all my experiments
thus far point to the Bison of Europe, or
to our American Buffalo mixed with the
Norman COW. There is a strong resem-
blance in the head, hair, and in the pecu-
liar switch Of hair on the tail, and ten
dency to the balance on the fore legs in
the grade Buffalo and the wild Jersey
l have examined several hundred of
the animals imported from Jersey and
nearly all the Guernsey that have been
imported, and have come to the conclu-
sion that the foundation of all this stock
is the orange-yellow COW, which | call
Norman that this Norman COW is an old
domestic animal that on the island of
Jersey there has been introduced much
more recently domesticated animal, whose
color was a chocolate brown its horns
black, firmly set on the head, deeply fut-
ed or corrugated on the inside that it
changes color at from four to eight months
old that it was covered with woolly
fur, having long coarse hair projecting
through the fur; that when it plunges in
to the cold water (which it will do with
apparent delight in the coolest weather)
the coarse hair closes on the fine fur-like
hair, combining the air in the fur, so that
under water they have the whitsh appear
ance Of beaver or muskrat. When they
come out, the skin is not wet have
often driven the wild Jerseys and grade
Buffaloes to the river, into which they
would plunge with IMMUNITY and swim
across while the Norman and other Breeds
whose skins are with common hair, and
the waxy substances on the skin, would
SILVER and turn away
notice that in breeding the peculiar
dark cattle of the Island of y ersey (which
call wild Jersey, as they breed back
towards the origin, they become heavier on
the fore shoulder, have less bellies, and
lighter loins. That as the yellow Norman
are bred together, their fore parts are
lighter, their bellies larger and their
loins heavier See photograph of Wa
chussetts or Wild Jersey and that Of
Sylvia, high bred Norman or Guernsey.
| am confident that with care and intelli.
gence all those hybrids can be bred back
to their original races. 1t is only requir-
ed ofus to diligently study what now
seems but dim hieroglgphics, to find in
them legible characters, iudelibly printed
by the power press of the Almighty, new.
er to be erased but known and read Of
9 all men.
: Now as the result Of my observations
: IF correc), may We not conclude that thu
Norman or Gurnsey COW is an old if no
d an original race, like the Devon, and tina
8 as race she is capable of producing NOR
c good milk, and as good beef, as any Gov
of her size that she is the most hard
n and healthy COW except the Devon, ant
e for the dairy the best cow known. Blu
&c you may with propriety ask, why, if thi
II COW is so superior, does she not NOR
e largely propagate her species? Simpl
d because no other race is taxed so severely
n You expect this COW to give you larg
d quantity Of very rich milk through tn
n year, and at the same time produce
d strong healthy calf; you put her betwee
d the upper and neither mill-stones until he
constitution is ground out Ofwhat othe
V. COW do you expect so much? Follow tn
u Moorish or Spanish cattle through SpaiI
10 South America, Mexico, Texas, Californi
ID and Florida, and four Of these cows d
s. not give as much milk as is expected
d. one dairy COW, Follow the Short.Hori
$. through Kentucky, Southern Ohio, an
oil the rich praries Of the west, and the co
ne is only expected to give her calf milk III
ne til it can feed on the rich grass itself
rs it not question seriously to be conside
ir ed, whether good breeds Of dairy coy
y. should not be protected is it not co
K trary to nature to expect good hardy a
"a, imals to be produced from COWS that ha'
ur been taxed for milk until their vital enc
an gies are exhausted Should we wond
nd at the large number Of abortions in O.
as dairy districts? Ne: rather should '
ur be surprised that outraged Nature do
not sweep the whole race from'the cart
ed and she would, if our daries were supple
rst from within themselves.
as | have concluded, as the result of
he my experiments and observations, that
MS is difficult if not impossible to produce
ID, new hardy race of animals by crossil
IA races, They may improve for speci
BY purposes for, the first or second generate
led but after that, they will begin to degt
ow crate in health and strength becol
Sc subject to disease, and begin to show
ow the bad qualities Of both lines Of anc
n. tors, or show IA struggle to get back
10 their original race; and if long continu
out in this state they stand waiting for so
GIT disease or plague to relieve them fir
IA this unnatural condition. 1t is undou
lem eddy our privilege and duty to select Q
ars improve with all the knowledge of g
by and evil We possess, every animal, t
'av- and plant which has been given us,
membering that cattle were created al
cry "thev kind" that it was tree "wh
not seed was in itself" that we are to Gu
ugh vate; and when We attempt to violate