Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-02-07
FARM AND GARDEN.
Stock Raising-ShOrt Horns.


EDITORS CHRONICLE The lordly race
of Short Horn Tor Durham) cattle came
from England. They are the largest of all
cattle. 1t 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 Jatten at any age. A yearling Will
fatten nearly as well as a 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 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, is
that they are clean liDl6ed, 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, rs a matter of much Importance; but
let them go 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
gether so. Experience has taught the
butchers that a 0OO-ib steer of the one
breed will turn out much more good, sala-
BILE beef than the other; in other words
the Waste is not near so great in one as the
other. There is something in fancy, | adj
NIT, in all this, So there is in the pur-
chase of horse. If "A man will take to
market lot of long-horned, long-haired,
thick-necked, tiat-sided, heavy-legged and
bad-colored cattle, he may expect, most
naturally, that buyers will take advantage
oflit to depreciate and undervalue them,
and obtain them for less than their value.
He can't help it they 1ciN not sell for their
full value.
So great and marked is the superiority
of this breed over all others, for grazing or
beef purposes, that it now everywhere COM
mands the highest prices. Indeed, partic-
ular families, of the highest excellence,
command almost fabulous prices. At a
sale of Edward Hes, near Springfield Hi
nois, i'll November last, the COW Jesse
Hopewell was sold to J. II. Kissinger,
GAINESVILLE, Missouri for 50, 400; " Oxford
Duchess to ]. G. Taylor, Decatur, Hi
nois, for 2,l00, and so on. High as these
son with the prices often paid Five thou
sand dollars is frequently obtained. 1t
is said that Mr.. Palmer, of Salt
vile, Virginia, has bull which
cost him five thousand dollars. 1t is GER
tain that he has very valuable herd,
which we hope to see at our Fair next
fall. Mr.. NJ. II. Cochran, Compton, Can
ada, sold last fall heads of Short Horns
to Earl DunmoTe, of Scotland. Two of
these were calves for which he received
$500 guineas, or about S13, $50.
But these are the prices of fancy cattle
of celebrated families. Common stock,
pure bIOoded, can be had at from two hun
bred to five hundred dollars a head. The
uneducated eye would detect but little diff
ference between the high priced, or fancy
stock, and the common. 1t must not be
supposed that this common stock is info
ri0r. 1t is only so in comparison. Com
pared with our native stock, it is very ST.
1erior. Indeed, it is quite good enough
for our people to begin with. If introduced
generally into East Tennessee,it would
work lCOnderfH change for the better.
Whenever that is done our people will
commence growing rich. 1t will at once
double the rdlltc of our cattle SuleS.
Why, then, will our people not see their
own interest? Why will they forever lag
6ehiad3 Why will they wilfully remain
poor? Why will East Tennesseeans permit
all the world to get ahead of them? APP
peal to their sectional pride. IT.