Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-01-04

cow We ever saw ~ pau cCI lIlNGl Hsto u
| grade Ayrshire. But we presume there are
| more of the same sort to be found among
| the breeders Of these famous cattle.-RUrat
New Yorker.
LORD KTTEAITsD On SHEEP BREEDING.
OF the means used by those called fancy
farmers for the selection and Improvement
of livestock, the following account of the eff
forts Of Lord Kinnaird, a Scotch nobleman
who has long paid close attention to this
important subject, will be found interesting
and instructive. The labors of such men
are not merely for themselves, but for the
country.
81 commenced sheep-breeding in 1928,
with a flock of Southdowns from the f1ocks
of the Duke of Richmond, Sir J. Shelly and
Mr.. Watson, of Keillor, but I soon found
that though the wool at that tim g was worth
more than Leicester-fine clothes being then
in demand for general wear, instead of
tweeds-yet the carcas did not suit the
working classes, there being neither size
nor fat. / then went in for the blue-faced
Ditchley Leicester, but / crossed the South
down ewes [ had with the Leicester tup,
and found the produce, which resembled
Southdowns, came to a great size and early
maturity, brought the highest price in Lon
don, and were purchased eagerly by the
frst-class butchers there, this cross not be-
ing then known; so that for several years I
got from England pure-bred Southdown
gimmers, took several crops of lamps from
them and sold them at eighteen months in
London. getting the highest price for South
down mutton.
"Some years ago / met with a breed of
sheep combining the excellence of the
Southdown mutton with the long wool OF
the Leicesters-a well established breed car
ried on from father to son on a farm in
Worcestershire. The sheep were originally
a cross between the Cotswold and Hamp-
shire Down-the cross-bred rams beingused
to constitute the breed. This breed [ find
to be most profitable. They are superior to
the breed now known as Oxford. Downs, in
asmuch as the clip is twice the quantity.
lit QuuitJy Va VIC WOOI, WHICH,, UclIiS lOlS
wool, sells at a higher figure, and the NUT
ton is as good as Southdown-indeed, has
been pronounced by competent judges to be
as good as old Highland mutton. In the
transactions of the Highland Society for
July, 1864, will be found an account of the
very careful experiment I made in 1853 to
ascertain the relative value to the farmer of
some different breeds of sheep, in lots of ten
wethers. The result was in favor o fBorder
Leicesters over English Leicesters, and
Glnucestershires over both in weight and
value at the end of the experiment, which
was carried OF for twelve months"
CUBAN HoRsEs.-The saddle horses ofCu-
ba have a peculiarly easy gait. The speed
attained in ordinary travelling is fully equal
to that of asmart trot, and is both easy and
delightful. It is neither a gallop, trot, pace
or rack the gait resembles what is tamil-
iarly known as "single foot" in the West.
When the horse is in motion his gait APP
pears to be that of a rapid trot, but it is not
it IS executed by moving both fore and hind
feet independently of each other so that
but one foot is lifted at a time, the effect OF
which is to gain the smoothest movement
possible to imagine. This gait, though said
to be natural to Spanish horses, which are
for the greater part descended from Spanish
and Barb stock, is partly the result of edu-
cation, for to possess it in perfection the
horse undergoes severe training, his value
being greatly EXCHANGED thereby.
SCAB / SHEEp.-A variety of remedies