Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-10-26

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The Polled cattle here are scarce. That
is grieyious to me, or to anyone familiar
with the Spanish herds of Texas, these
Kline of Cortes and Pizzaro, chat when Ia
ken into beauteous Illinois, devour ten times
the quantity that would fatten a grade steer,
could be rapidly improved by the Polled
Cross. The hornless cattle are distinctive
in their excellent quantities, effacing, in one
cross, many of the bad points of the Texan
herds. The British lies possess three dis
tinct branches of the Polled or Hornless
tribe of bovines. These are the Black An
gus, the Brown Or nearly Black Galloway,
both of Scottish blood and the red herds Of
Norfolk and Suffolk, England. Some enter
prising individuals have, from time to time,
brayed the perils of ocean travel, have pene-
trated into Holstein, and from thence have
brought out certain huge animals, remarka-
BILE for length Of limb, development of era
mum and generally valueless peculiarities.
The admiration of these Holstein herds is a
hindrance to the improvement of the herds
of America even when clean-bred they are
coarse, and, as feeders, over fond of their
grub.
Out of so much assembled excellence it is
difficult to select the best, still / have VEN
tured to do so, and my choice is as follows:
The Shorthorn herd of B. B. Groom s. Son
of Vinewood, Winchester, KY, numbers
seven head, and is of rare beauty. The bull,
Mariner I'd, is red. He has rarely been
beaten, and took the sweepstakes at Paris,
Kentucky. His next-door neighbor is Ok
ford, of Geneva, q roam bull, eighteen
months, full of good points. His sire and
dam We're exported six years ago and
brought back in 1875 with this calf, who
took this years prize in his own ring at the
State Fair, Columbus, Ohio. The imported
cow, Winsom 10th, cost $1,000 sterling, was
bred by his grace, the Duke of Devonshire,
and shared all over England the prizes Of
the hour with that Shorthnrn haautyyQ queen
Mary she is a strawberry roam. Daisy,
bred in Kentucky, is red in color; her many
beauties of conformation speak we'll for the
sound Judgment Of her breeders. She stands
the winner of the highest prize awarded in
her State. Red Rose Sth battles description.
Her head and neck are lovely in the ex-
IRENE her horn fine and Wax-like; her tenn
per smooth as her glossy coat her eyes, like
those attributed to Juno, full of LIQUID light.
She is a beauty all over. This herd took
seven prizes at the recent Ohio Fair. The
remaining animals are Victoria's Gem and
Worcestershire Wiley.
From England has arrived the Shorthorn
herd of B. st. John Ackers, Esq, ofTrlnk-
nash Tork, Tainswick, Worcestershire. At
the head of this herd stands Cymbaline, a
white bull, good all over, but remarkable
for the %fineness of his f%ore-quarters. He has
taken numerols prizes. His companion,
Lord Cranham, taken up suddenly from
light feed, has a straight back, a long side,
a deep rib and plenty Of bone to put up first
beef. The gem of this herd is Clovis, a roam
bull. He took the third prize this year at
the Royal Show held at Birmingham, Eng.
This honor is considered equal to any other
first award. This last named animal is as
soft as unspun silk, and / hope that for the
OF America he may be purchased
to remain in the country. Wedding Day, a
strawberry roam, two years and eleven
old, believed to be in calf, is a per-
example of a first-class English Short
horn. She is long and low and close to the
what more need be said? Baron
ess Pawlett, a light roam, two years old, is
wonderful tor the fineness other coat, which
only one OF her valuable properties. Cas-