The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-17
SHORT-HORNS,
A Brief History OF this Superior Breed
Of CaLfIss


OF Cattle,
From various historical sources, such
as Berry, Youatt, Martin and Allen, we
gather the following facts concerning
the origin, progress and present condi-
ton of Short-horn cattle:
These cattle, at the present time, pos
sess in an eminent degree qualities
which cause them to become objects of
great interest and admiration, on &C
count of their splendid frames, beauti-
fully varied coiors, and their remarka-
bic aptitude to take on flesh on those
particular parts which are so attractive
to the butcher.
A period of more than one hundred
years has now elapsed since the Short
horns, on the banks of the river Tees,
in England, and called the Teeswater
breed, had assumed g very fine and at
tractive color, which resembled the
Short-horns of the present day, being
occasionally red, red and white, and
roam, though the last not as prevalent
as now. They also possessed a fine
mellow skin and flesh, good hair, and
light offal, particularly wide carcasses,
and forequarters of extraordinary depth
and cavity. When slaughtered their
net weight was extraordinary, and many
instances are recorded of the wonderful
weight OF Bn6lr inside 1aEs
About this time Sir William st. Quin-
ton, of Scampton, imported bulls and
COWS from Holland, which were crossed
| with the stock of the country. Mr..
| Mlbank, of Birmingham, bred and
slaughtered an OK which, at five years
| old, the four quarters weighed ala
| pounds, and COW bred from his own
stock, at twelve years old, when sIaugh-
| tered, 1,540 pounds. From Mr.. Mil
! banks time the Teeswater cattle contin-
ued to sustain their excellence and
! celebrity in various hands, until Mr.
! Charles COlling adopted them. In the
hands of Mr.. Colling these cattle became
| greatly improved, and it is believed
that his success resulted from we'll
considered plan. He found the Tees
water large cattle of loose make and
! disproportion and was sensible of the
| difficulty of breeding, with anything
like certainty, large, good animals; and
through the progress of his practice, he
| showed a resolution to reduce the size
of the breed, and at the same time,
! and by that means, to improve the form.
This he is supposed to have effected
| through the medium of a bull called
Hubback, an animal which, it appears
probable, possessed on one side the i'm
ported blood. The possessor of his
dam was person in INDECENT circum-
stances, and grazed his COW in the high
ways. When afterward she was re-
moved to good land, near Darlington,
she became so fat that she did not again
breed and her son Hubback having
the same feeding propensity in high
degree was useful as bull during a
very short period. The quality of his
flesh, hide aud hair are supposed to
have been seldom equaled; and as he
was smaller than the Tees water cattle
he was eminently calculated to forward
Mr.. Ceilings views. There are no SUI
perior Short-horns which do not claim
descent nearly or remotely to Hubback.
After the use of this bull Mr.. Charles
Colling proceeded with success to pro-
duce superior animals and the number
of bulls which he disposed of at high
prices was truly encouraging.
The prevalence of these cattle aroused
the attention of breeders to their mer-
its, and raised Charles Colling, as their
breeder, to a condition of great distinc-
ton, and, in the demand created for
his stock, soon gave him large for
tune. Under this stimulus other breed
ers were soon awakened to a state of ae-
tivity and soon brought up their herds
to quality perhaps equal TO that of
the Ceilings. 1t might be of int rest
to some persons, but not to the masses,
to follow this subject to a much greater
length, by discussing the future progress
of the English Short-hOrns, down to q
late day. Suffice it to say that the
ShOrt-hOrns now stand in the front rank
of all the breeds in Great Britain, and
in some portions of the continent ada
cent, and IN the Australian and Canadi-
an colonies, where the soil and climate
are adapted to their support.
According to the history, after the
termination of the revolutionary war a
few cattle, supposed to be pure Short
horns, we're brought into Virginia by a
Mr.. Miller. In the year 1886 an Eng
lishman named Heaton brought two or
three ShOrthorn cattle from the north
of England to New York. In 1Sl5-16
MIR. Cox, an old Englishman, importer
a bull and two heifers into Rensselaer,
: county, New York. In 1918 Mr.. Corne-
Illus Coolidge, Of Boston, Massachusetts,,
imported bull and heifer into that
city from the herd of Mr.. Mason, of
Chiffon, In the country of Durham,
England. Frequent importations have
since been made, up to 1924, when
several spirited companies in Ohio and
Kentucky made importatiOns of the best
cattle to be found in the English herds.
= The American Herd Book of eight vol,
umes describes more than 7,400 bulls
and over II, 600 COWS. These cattle are
; now to be found, either as thorough
breds or grades, through the northern
and middle states, all over the west,
have been driven over the plains into
California, into Oregon, in the valley of
the Willamette and the Columbia; and
are destined to go into every place
where cattle are successfully bred and
: good heritage abounds.-L = Mdpes,