Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-07-20
COLOR OF PEDIGREE sHoRTHoRNs.

N'tA"lAh lAali, cIIlloH, culy a, 1000, Jncr
is entered a eight roam" query, was i
light yellow roam or a purple roam 2 cow
"Anemone, got by Abraham Parker 1856
dam Playful by Eden $685., grandam Spot
by I'd Duke of Northumberland (3646) greta
grandam White Chillingham I'd by Young
Sea Gull (5loO), great-great-grandam, breG
by the Earl Of Takerville from bulls of Mr.
Jobson's for three crosses" Now. what
does this mean (there are surely those who
can tell us) that Earl 'Tankerville tried the
experiment, which we lately read is to be
tried again, between the heifers of Booth
blood. bought for the purpose by Mr.. Jacob
Wilson, and a Chillingham wild bull? and.
if so, was the result in White Chillingham
"a, a COW of the sort we often see, viz: White
with yellow roam, Or reddish ears? And
then her daughter "Spots," what colored
spots had she on her and where placed e?
Some have denied, and others as resolutely
asserted, that we owe the white of the pedi-
gree shorthorn to a cross with the Chilling
ham cattle. Mr.. Carr positively asserted
the fact. Then Lawrence remarks that the
Lincolnshire cattle got a white hue through
a Dutch importation. I see that the celebrat-
ed ".Berwickshire OK" who came of a stock
that had been "improved by Teeswater
bulls from Northumberland shownin PAIL
mall, London, il The spring of 1903, was a
rich deep red, with q few white spots on
the face" Whence came this depth of hue?
Then, in later days, the celebrated Fourth
Duke of Oxford (113S7) was such a black
looking infant, fresh born, that the late Mr..
roared with amlseinen at the sight:
and yet he was got by Grand Duke. and the
Grand Dukes were gotten yellow reds, and
his dam was by the I'd Duke of Northum-
berland (3646) 1.-THE sire by the way of our
fair friend "Spots" above] whose sire and
g%randsire were the yellow roar Belvidere,
and his great-grandsire the yellow red and
white Second Hubback. The question beats
us. We are only led to consider this ques-
lion again through a letter received recently.
n which a friend writes "My bullo (of
lnclcnt descent, and a darkish red) .sgets
lis calves very shapely, but such queer col
II. 1 have a beautiful heifer calf by him,
ut OF a Gwynne COW, but she is like a
guernsey in color" Now, it is very Curl
us, but this year and last there have been q
urge lumber of calves born in good herds
a strong element in their coats of
chestnut. Can the season have any
hing to do with it? Can color be subject
} such capricious laws? Has the season
to do with it? In the Conepzete
.4zasie1', published in 1906, under a sssynop-
$ of the different breeds of neat cattle in
reat Britain" Class III, Dutch or Short
orned are described as being in 7. color red
40 white, nearly equally mixed" Does !
lat mean a roam, or red with white.
atches, like the early Duchess cows? This :
uchess marking, by the way, is what the !.
rly breeders meant by !" Flecked' (FIeck- :
Simmon, etc. and not what we SO de- !
nbe-that is, a light coat all thickly inter- !
ersed with tuffts of another hue, like the I
ats made in jails, or the dress robe OF an :
original chief. My remarks as to the rich !
an color being generally approved, mas :
lch as it especially delights the eye by an !
teal law, that is because it is exactly :
supplementary to the yellow-green which :
eponderates in every landscape, has been
lorsed by an amateur artist to whom / :
ntioned my idea.-P., IN London L. s..
aaaat. 1856 n
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