Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-29

t~ilations resulting from disease, existing du-
ring pregnancy, and disease with a constitu-
tional morbid faint, are, above al, to be
dreaded as transmissable. .t
10. There is some foundation for the
opinion that the sire tends to contribute
more to the locomotion and the external Or
CANS ; so that if we cannot obtain the great
est excellence in both, we should at least
seek to have each unexceptionable in the
parts and qualities attributed to it.-Spirn
of the Times. , s
Overlooking FINE STOCK FOR SHOW.
1t is astonishing that breeders will be so
foolish as to still continue the practice of
stufflhg, Ito their utter ruin, valuable ami
mails from their flocks and herds, simply for
the purpose OF o%utshowing each other in
monstrous fat at the Agricultural Fairs.
See, for example, what destruction has re-
suited tor years past from this cause in the
noble tribes of Bates and Booths Shorthorn
cattle. It is not surprising that many have
died under this practice the only wonder is
that a single animal of them has survived it,
and is still left with sufficient stamina to
propagate it's species. In a late issue, the
London Agricultural Gazette observes that
this lamentable destruction is going on in
other superior families of S%horthorns, and
also in other breeds of cattle, for it says
"Mr. Cultivate has lost his celebrated cow
Vivandiere. She and her calf have both
died during protracted labor. The North
British Agrsculturist of last week enumer-
ates the disasters which nave of late befallen
Queen Mary, which has lost her calf, Mr.. A.
III. Brownies Duke of Aosta, winner of many
prizes, including the first at each of the
three national meetings in England, Scot
land and Ireland, last season Lady Pigot's
Vietoria Victrix. Rose Of WYtham, and
Moorish Captive, all of them Royal Win
ners; the Duke ofBuccleuch's prize winning
Ay COW and Mr.. Scott's fine polled
Angus bull, Bluebeard. We rather suspect,
says the Gazette, that the unnatural state of
feeding in which showyard animals now-a-
days appear, has had not q little to do with
the death of some, if not all, the animals
particularized." e9
Yes, indeed, you may "rather" more
than Suspect y this, for it is a terrible fact,
and no mistake about it. Iwell recollect
when present at one of the Royal Agricultu-
raj shows in England, of expressing aston
ishment to a celebrated breeder there, that
he should sell a lot of his prize animals to a
competer. Why" 1 exclaimed, " in a few
years he will be. exhibiting here against you,
and beat you with the produce Of your own
weapons He gave me a nudge with his
hand and a sly wink from the eye, and at
the same time dryly remarked: Never
fear that. These animals have been fed too
high to make good breeders; the purchaser
of them can never beat me at u cattle show
with their offspring m## srA
And still with such a lesson before us, we
Americans are so foolish as to continue i'm
porting prize stock from abroad, and boast
of it to the public, thinking thereby to be
able to, sell their produce alta higher price,
than such as come from animals that have
not gone THROUGH the Injurious process of
overlooking, in order to make a foolish show
of their fine points.-A. b. Alen IN Ame7s-s
can AgricuttwSst. .gtHa 5ls.
SHRoPsHIREs IN KANsAs.-Having just
finished shearing, we give you below the re-
suit of our Shropshires. England, ram,
weight 800 pounds ; fleece IL IL lbs. Beau
ty, eve with lamb at her side, weight 200
lbs; fleece 8 IL lbs. Young One, eve with
lamb Mt side Weioht; TO lbs. fleece 8 81