The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-09

was anything but flesh and blood. The
evidence against them is 80 convictine
that it cannot be disproved by future
testimony, which can only relate to the
past by analogy philadelphia Press.
Cattle Breeding.
He turned his back upon fine-spun
theories and their discussion, confining
his remarks entirely to his own practi-
cal observations. The leading princi-
pie of his argument was the law OF ma
ture, like produces like, end that, to se-
cure healthy, robust, vigorous, active
and growthy" calves. it was necessary
to keep their proeenitors in the same
condition up to che time of breeding.
AL our improved varieties of vegetables,
the improved breeds of domestic ami
mails all over the country, even the An
glo-Sayon as seen to-day-all were the
result of careful culture, and just as the
vegetable required constant cultivation
nom the germ to maturity, so the short
horn or any other domestic animal must
be cultivated from its birth to the time
at which it becomes a producer.
In order to attain this condition the
nutritious food as nature required,
should spend at least half of its life in
the open air with the privilege of ex-
ercising as much as it wished up to the
time of maturity. After that change
of food should be made in order to pre-
vent the production of too much flesh
or fat. This he thought desirable,
rather than a reduction in the amount,
in order to keep the animal at GER
tain point. The food should be more
nutritious in winter than in summer,
and more nutritious for the nursing
than the dry cow. After the birth OF
the first calf, which should occur when
the heifer is thirty months old, she
should be coupled with the male again
in from sixty to ninety daye, and not
sooner, SO that she may produce the
second calf just year after the first,
and so on through her entire breeding
period. Nine months in twelve was as
long as any COW should give milk. In
case the animal became too fat, exercise
and not starvation should be used to re-
duce her. Starpation and lack of ex-
ercise impaired the constitution and
shortened life; labor, With euffisaeni
--00u mcfBused muscle, hardened bone,
and invigorated the system. es
Male animals designed for breeders
should be kept as much as possible in
an open lot, and not in the stable or
box stall, should be kept in only in very
bad weather, and then only during the
prevalence of q storm. Exercise in the
open air was conducive of strength,
while lying on the ground had a ten
dency to keep the system cool, which
was necessary when an animal was liv-
ing on stimulating food. The male
animal should always be improving
rather than declining, and render but
one good service, and never more than
two, in one day.
The introduction of short-horns into
this country has been of almost meas
ureless service in the Improvement of
beef as an article of human food. To
make two blades of grass grow where
one grew before was grand achieve
ment, but to make grow five pounds of
beef where three grew before, to i'm
prove its quality and produce it in less
time, was a much grander achievement,
because it entered into the healthfuI
food of man SO Immediately. While
The work of the short-horn breeder was
too great at present to be estimated, it
was plain that it materially affected the
interests of the next generation.
It was therefore highly important
that the best means of improving the
herd should be the object of the breed
sr. In other words, calves were of
more value than premiums, and should
De the object desired by every breeder
f it necessitated the withdrawal of
,very short-horn from the show-ring.
The desire for premium caused breed
rs to overdo the matter of feeding for
he sake of appearance in the show
ing, to the detriment of the animal for
purposes. There was much
more lost by the present mode of prep.
ration for the showing than all tie
'remiums amounted to. In conclusion,
he speaker cited some twenty of the
aost celebrated families in the world
7hich had never made any appearance
n the show-ring, having never been
for more premium purposes.
hey were kept in a condition which
'ould not strike judges IF cattle-shows,
ut would transmit their highest and |
est qualities to their progeny. If
remiums could not be awarded upon
ne basis of tho best breeding condition,
aey were calculated to do more harr1
nan good to the stock.-Duncdn.
ian to the man she wants to marry
ill cut the heart out of love. One
oung girl tried it, and made her lover
glistening white shirt with her own
retty hands. He retired to his board
g house, put it on, and went straight
ay to see and make love to another girl.
lad in a clean shirt he felt above the
amstress who had made it, and she
st his coveted company.-St. Louis
eoublican.
CHARLES JOSEPH BoNAPARrE, n grand
n of Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson Bona
rte, of Baltimore, and grand nephew +,
the first consul of France, has been i,
mitted to practice at the bar of the
aryland court of appeals. He is said y
resen BILE Napoleon Bonaparte mere r
an any other member of his family.
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