Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-01

Mr.. James Hasley, of Lempster, n. FL.
has a Devon calf which weighed 12O pounds
when it wa twenty-four hours old.
r. Lewis Coe, of Centre Harbor, has &
pair of calves, eight weeks old, one of which
girts three feet seven inches and the other
three feet eight inches. The pair weigh 7Os
pounds.
Mr.. Charles II. Berry, of North Mon
mouth, has a couple of yearling steers, grade
Durham and Hereford, which weighed the
day after they were a year old 2,160 pounds,
measured six feet in gisth.
Mr.. e. Briggs, of Parkham, has a pair of
buck lambs that, when they were one month
old, weighed sixty-three pounds.
A hogbreeder in Marion county, Ind,
sums up the merits of the Essex hog as fol-
lows: In color they are entirely black, but
dress perfectly white, and their meat and
hard is of excellent quality. There is not
near so much offal as with the other breeds.
A well-bred Essex will not shrink in dress
ing more than from about eight to twelve
per cent, sometimes even less. They make
a good cross on the larger and coarser
breeds, giving them early maturity, and i'm
proving theiF fattening qualities. They
stand the cold weather about as we'll as any
OF the improved breeds, and they can stand
the heat much better than the white hogs.
1t pays well to protect them from the cold
ami Vynf nCJpnionu xyh0,, fhox, QUO -
young.
The fine shorthorn COW Maud Morton.
by Grand Duke of Morton 37o3, recently
dropped twin cow-calves, by Mazurka
Gwynne.
Mr.. V. feathers, Of Anderson, KY, has
two ewes that had nine lambs, and ten other
yves that had thirty-five lambs. Forty-four
lambs for twelve ewes.
A gentleman at Limerick, N. H., has a
grade Durham and Ayrshire bull-calf.
dropped September 1875, that measured
when two months old thee feet in girth
When seven months old, four feet sixinches.
making a gain of eighteen inches in five
months.
AT the nnual meeting of the American
Jersey Cattle Club, $1,000 was appropriated
for prizes tor Jersey cattle, to be exhibited
at the Centennial Exposition, in September.
Best cow, $3.50; second best, $500; best bull.
S2oo; second best, 800; best herd. $500.
successful exhibitors will have the on
ton OF receiving their prizes in money or in
plate. The judges are to be members of the
Club or of the Royal Agricultural Society of
Jersey. Animals competing for these
prizes are to be judged according to the
Sluo's scale of points. Applications for
forms tor entry should bemade at once to
Landreth, Bureau of Agriculture. !
Commission, Philadelphia. t
Geo. y. Altman, of Cornersville. Tenn. :
las a CotsWold eve that gave birth recently
y lour lambs. A letter just received from
MS gentleman advises us that the olartetta e
re lVing and are doing finely. He has .
very prospect OF raising them, unless thew :
hould offer a tempting moroccan to the 7
'orthless ours in the ~neighborhood. The !"
ambs and their honored dam will he sent to
ne Centennial.
Barney Mccain, living near Ottawa, Can RI
ia, mas a nannie-goat which recently
three kids at a birth.
Agricultural industries, which bring with b
lem MONIES, cultivation, mechanics. arts pc
ana churches, in place of unpopu-
TED pralries, are gradually banishine cat
e-groWlng on the former vast scale from
eXaS. Tho f,llou Gl