Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-01-31
Sock Raising-Short Horns.

EDITOES CHRONICLE Inc lOruIy race
of Short Horn Tor Durham) cattle, came
from England. They are the largest OF all
cattle. It is universally admitted that for
beef they have no equal. One high point
of conceded superiority of this breed, over
all Others, is, that they will take on flesh
and tate1l ut any age. a yearling will
fatten nearly as well as grown steer. This
Is not the case with our WORKOUT stock.
The Short Horns grow with remarkable
rapidity. With pure breeds, or high grades,
it is no uncommon thing for a well cared
for six months calf, to weigh from three
to four hundred pounds Another point,
well understood in large cattle markets,
though not looked at much here yet, lis
that they are clean Hnl6ed, and the flesh is
all at the right place. There is, in other
words, no surplus-waste flesh, but, as
nearly as may be, all is fit to be eaten.
This may not strike all my readers, at
first, as matter of much Importance; but
let them 20 into the Baltimore or New
York market with two lots of steers, one
of our native mountain stock, and the
other of fine blooded, clean, bright colOred
Short Horns, both alike fat, and they will
there learn the fact that Short Horns will
sell on foot for from two to three cents per
pound more than the other.
This may be partly fancy, but not alto
butchers that ,000-fb steer of the one
breed will turn out much more good, sala-
bic beef than the other; in other words,
the Wdstc is not near so great i'll one as the
other. There is something in fancy, [ adj
NIT in all this, So there is in the pur-
chase of horse. If man will take to
market lot of long-horned, long-haired
thick-necked, fiat-side,., heavy-legged and
bad-cOlored cattle, he may expect, most
naturally, that buyers will take advantage
of sit to depreciate and undervalue them
and obtain them for less than their value
He can't help it; they wW not sell for their
full value.
So great and marked is the superiority
of this breed over all others, for grazing OF
beef purposes, that it now everywhere com
mands the highest prices. Indeed, partic
ular families, of the highest excellence
command almost fabulous prices. At q
sale of Edward Hes, near Springfield, Hi
nois, in November last, the COW Jesse
Hopewell" was sold to j. H. Kissinger
| GAINESVILLE, Missouri, for So, 499; Oxford
Duchess to J. G. Taylor, Decatur, Hi
nois, for s., 100, and SO OH. High as these
prices may seem, they are low in compari
son with the prices often paid. Five thou
is said that Mr.. Palmer, of Salt
vile, Virginia, has Il bull which
cost him five Thousand dollars. 1t is GER
| tain that he has II very valuable herd
which we hope to see at our Fair mex
fall. Mr.. NJ. III. Cochran, Compton, Can
ada, sold last fall heads of Short Horns
to Earl DunmOre, of Scotland. Two o
these were calves, for which he received
$500 guineas, or about S13,650.
But these are the prices Of fancy cattle
Of celebrated families. Common stock
pure 6oOded, can be had at from two hun
dred to five hundred dollars head. The
uneducated eye would detect but little diff
ference between the high priced, or fancy
stock, and the common. 1t must not bt
supposed that this common stock is info
riOr. 1t is only 20 i'll comparison. Com
pared with our native stock, it is very So
pcrior. Indeed, it is quite good enough
| for our people to begin with. If introduced
generally into East Tennessee,it would
work WonderfUI change for the better
| Whenever that is done our people viii
commence growing rich. 1t will at once
double the UdLue Of our cattle sales.
Why, then, will our people not see theil
own interest? Why will they forever lag
6ehmd9 Why will they wilfully remain
poor? Why will East Tennesseeans permi
all the world to get ahead of them? ap
peal to their sectional pride. L,