Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-21

which he called his home, asked him IL
he was going to take these cattle there for
the winter. He replied, No; the hay is for
lowland cattle and ponies. he had just
been telling Of the deep snow which some
times FAN in the mountains, and 1 asked
what the cattle would do IN sneh cases? BE
said, eobl the snow generally sofens after
day or two, and the cattle can work
through It," i
Kerry county is the most westerly land
that belongs TO the continent of Europe;
and projecting into the Atlantic, it has
moist climate, and one less subject to ex-
tremel, of temperature than what exists on
the western coasts of the same ocean.
Grazing at about the same altitude above
the sea, summer and winter, on NATURAL
heritage and breeding after natures plan in
the same climate for unknown centuries, it
is natural, and probably unavoidable, that
q well marked local breed should be called
into existence. Organic beings are the
fruit of conditions. In the climate of Min
nesota, where school children freeze to
death, The sour cranberry hourishes; in
Florida, the sweet fig, orange and sugar
Gaze. No other place on the globe has the
climste of Ireland; and no other place does,
or can produce genuine Irish character.
When man, beast, or plant is transferred
from one climats 10 another, in a few
generations the forces of the new eli
mate, overcome and perhaps wholly oblit-
crate those of primary or hereditary Ia
ture. For a time the parental and primary
forces predominant. But the forces that
make man born in Ireland still an Irish
man in America exist only In the cOnstitu-
ton. Every year while in a new climate
and country he loses q part Of the old i'm
pulse and receives new impulse in its
place. 1t is the steady waste of the old
trans Atlantic forces by time, aud the birth
of new germs of life in his offspring, more
susceptible to all local conditions, that sur
round them, which make bis posterty
Americans in blood and constitution. tbs
in this way that African merino sheep be-
came, in time, Spanish merino; and finally,
by long breeding in this country, they be-
came American merinos. Without this
perfect aclimation in European races and
breeds there could be no white Americans
in the New World.
No European farm stock have more to
recommend them for trial in the South
than the Kerry cattle, SO good for milk and
so cheaply kept. They respond promptly
and fayorably to better. treatment, whera-
yer received; and they live and flourish on
short commons where the lordly Durhams
would perish. Mr.. Austin, of Massachu-
sets, says: 81 often had the milk measured
during the past summer, and found it did
not go below sixty quarts day for the five
heifers of The first importation. On the
S1st of May the five alluded to, having
produced their first calves, gave COZ quarts,
or an average of II quarts each day." In
their native mountains the females do not
breed till they are three years old; scant
subsistence causing the delay. Blu! well
kept in Massachusetts, heifers become
mothers at two years. Between Shetland
ponies no larger than sheep, and London
dray horses nearly as big as elephants, there
is thu difference between scanty and full
feeding for generations in succession.