The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-11-30
ACcLIMATION OF CATTLE.

In letter, bearing date Sept End, 1877
from Mr. y. Nj. Foster, of Shreveport, La.
ne says, 81 want to get some breed or breed,
OF cattle that are better than our common
long, horn, but am bothered to know vba,
klhd Is best and will suit our climate.
bought 10 months Durham bull from Ken.
lucky last January, but he lived only abou,
SIX weeks, and like fatality attended 4
large per cent of cattle brought bere the
last winter and spring from Kentucky and
-se~s.Hs nayets STOCK that ! want y
eNdSs mix and butter nHm nxr~hleh nm ! ,isll SisH
fed the Durham is best for beef, and, Ter.
sey for butter, but how shall | proceed To
get them acclimated and get start? DO
you think to bring them here as weanlings
say six or eight months old-would insure
much success What month do YOU think
most advisable to bring cattle to this climate2
what DO you think of the propriety of
preceding the Jersey on our common stock I?
What course would YOU pursue during tie
first summer-and would you shelter or not
from the hot sun ?"
ln answer to this and similar INQUIRIES
and to save almost weekly the burden of
much correspondence upon the subject of
accllmation, we will ask the use of YOUR
columns for reply. Any information we
may impart upon this subject is NECESSARILY
l4mlted and very unsatisfactory Most Of
the facts embraced In this were previously
published In 1874 iu the Country Gen,le-
man, In correspondence at that time be-
tween A. Is. Allen, of New York, and our
selves. Our entire loss of Northern pur-
chased cattle from accimatng fever has
been near fifty per cent. In opposition to
the generally received opinion, our heaviest
losses have been with the youngest animals
an! have led us to the opinion that the
question OF age does not modify or influence
the disease. Of Jersey purchases made in
1913, OF those purchased of MIR. S. w.
aobins, OF Connecticut, the youngest died.
vi TWO purchased of Mr.. G. S. Sargent, of
MASSACHUSETTS,, the younger died. OF six
purchased of Mr.. J. NJ. Mackie, Great Bar
rlngton, Mass, the oldest escaped the fever
entirely, The next bad the fever, but not
.s@os % p6int'of age both diesdd:, As aaes.
est had very severe and protracted attacks,
but intimately recovered In the year 1872
l purchased Jersey heifer calf of Thos.
). Kennedy, of Louisville, Ky, the calf
being only's2 to months Of age. Not
withstanding her age, she came very near
dying from acclimation q bull two years
old and purchased at the same time Of Col.
Waring, Of Rhode Island, passed the SUM-
mer without any attack whatever of fever,
although nearly two years older, and from
much more northern climate. These
facts in our own experience tend to estab-
lish the fact that the risk is not propor-
tionate to the age of the animals, apd do not
sustain the popular idea that the younger
the animal the more easily and readily is
1t accllmated The risk of acclmation is
not limited to the first summer; the faAlixy
often being much greater the second Sum-
mer. Mr.. Kennedy, above mentioned, re-,
ports in his efforts to introduce cattle from
Kentucky to his plantation in Mississippi,
much the greater fatality occurred the sec
ond season. The same was true with our
townsman, Capt. L. A. Fort, who in 1871
purchased eight head of cattle in Kentucky,
which passed safely through the summer of
1o72-but much to his surprise seven out
of eight died from acclima1on in 1873
Not only the original stock purchased, but
all the calves even, dropped after their arri-
val here, except one, died from acclimation.
In our own experience, Jennie Douglas
(33130 purchased in New York in the
spring of 1873, escaped fever the first sum-
mer, and was not attacked with it until the
fall Of 1874. And just here we would
mention fact even more remarkable,
Jennie Douglas was bred in New York III
the bull Hero (S40) in 1872. On June
9TH, 1873, she dropped, several months
after her arrival in this county, the heifer
calf Nellie Curtis (3371) In October,
1874, Jennie Douglas and her New York
bred, but Mississippi dropped calf, Nellie
Curtis, then IA months old, cere simulta-
neoas!y taken do,on With the acclimating te-
ger. Could any stronger proof than this
in the case of Nellie Curtis be adduced to
establish the fact that the question of age
does not affect or modify tho questioned
acclimation To the above facts might be
added the heavy losses heretofore publish
ed in your Journar sustained the presenA
summer by Mr.. G.. g. Duffee, of Mobile,
Ala, of young things" purchased add
brought South during the past winter.-W.
b. M.,-iSo. Live Stock Journal. a{
DIARRHEA IN CALvEs.-Calves tha,