Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-02-06
RlOOded Stock.

Let not our farmers be deferred from
purchasing by the high prices of the pure
blooded, or Pedigree short horns. These
high prices prove two things tlrst, tne
great superiority of this breed for grazing
purposes and second, the enormous de~
Dsard for it. And both these facts prove
that n1oney can be made by raising Lnese
cattle. If the demand was not great, they |
would not sell for such prices land they |
still go higher and higher every year, the
profit of raising them is enormous. Ii |
prices were to decline one hundred per
cent, land there is no hope such thlng)
it would still be vastly profitable TO raise
them.
If our farmers individually feel that they
| are not able to purchase one or more short
| horns, let two, three or five, or more
neighbors unite their means and send
some discreet man to Kentucky and make
a purchase of at least one pure FLOODED
male and one cow or heiffer, and with them
make a start. From the male many eX-
cellent grades can be obtained. Ii each
neighborhood would do this in five years
we would have a breed of cattle worth III
the aggregate as much as our present STOCK.
But let me guard the purchaser against
buying, for breeding purposes, anything
but pure-bloOded males.
| For this purpose, the superiority OF the
| pure blood over the grade, or impure, Is
known too well with cattle men to admit
of any doubt The fact is one of TOO nluch
Importance to be overlooked. No cattle
man will allow, under any circumstances,
a grade male among his stock. Grades do
finely for beef, but not for breeding. The
reason is, the pure blooded are certain to
, transmit their noble qualities to their OH
| spring, while the grades may or they may
. not. Pure blOOded males with our inferior
stock will bring up the latter to respect
able beef standard and in the course OF
| ten or twenty years, the inferior stock
would disappear, being superseded 10y q
high order of grades.
Now, if our people do not commence
raising pure, or at least grade short horns
for beef, it will be one of the most aston,
ishin0 facts of the day. They cannot
plead even ignorance in their Justification
These articles alone are sufficient to take
away that excuse. What, then, IS the
reason? Want of energy to move Ill the
matter? Certainly no man, that Is q man
will admit this. Want of means? This
won't do, for there are thousands who
hare the means and even those who have
not, individually, can unite with then
# neighbors and jointly raise the means
No gentle farmer, there Is no excuse
| for continuing to raise an inferior, worn
out. worthless, disgraceful, protitless breed
of cattle, such as you have i'll East Iennes
. see, when you can SO easily get better
breed that will double your profits.
One of the great pursuits of our peopl'
should be, will be, even now is rapidly
becoming, is the fceding of cattle for thu
Southern and the Baltimore mrrket.
can name dozen men now engaged III 1t
There were near 800 beeves stall fed,
, wear ago, in each of the counties of Jetfer
son and Sewer. The men thus engaged
| will not long be content to throw ava.
their corn and hay OH miserable steer
., that will not return the money thus spent
in delicate, juicy flesh, which will com
mand fair price in market. They wan
stock that will fatten up and that will sci
we'll when it reaches market
!. AL of our surplus corn and hay, crcr5
busIteL and pound, should be Jed on on
farms. This is the great fact for on
people. On it hangs all our prosperity
Every bushel of corn and oats, and ever.
pound of hay sent South in natural state
is so much wealth lost. They should g
:. to market in the form of fat beeves, ele
CANT golden butter and cheese, fine horse
and mules, juicy fat mutton, and in wool
and lard and bacon. The grain and ha.
T should be fed on the farm and return to tn
fields in the form of manure to suppl,
what the crops had taken away.
Do the Kentuckians in the blue grass re
N gion, Certainly among the most prosper
Gus people in the wOrld), send corn, an
hay, and oats to market i'll their natura
form? No; on the contrary, they sen'
S. costly Short Horns, splendid Berkshires
ne sleek mules and blOOded horses. L.