Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-17

was rich, wsll adapted to the growth OF the
beat grasses, perhaps our blue grass. end
sifording the very best pasturage for cattle.
the climate favorable, etc, 1t ~ altogether
probable that these natural advantages rap
IDLY developed the best qualities Of the cat
tie of that locality, which enhanced their
marketable value greatly, and which doubt
less induced their owners to adopt careful
system of breeding and prompted Rener-
Gus supply Of food for winter and summer,
whereby they had acquired great distinc.
tion as early as 176O, when q new era
dawned on the history of short-horns.
About that time two brothers, Robert
and Charles Colling, young men, embarked
IN the business in Durham county, Eng
land, who by skillful breeding and manage
ment, brouRt their herds to such state of
perfection thatit is doubtful whether any
herds have exceeded them, even to this
day. They accomplished this BY Judi
cieus system of in.and-in breeding, and it
is well known fact that the best herds 10
progenitors bred by them. Mr.. Charles
Colling bred the celebrated Durham OK
about 1890. He was roam in color, and in
his fifth year weighed 1924 pounds. He
was exhibited III nearly ali of the agricul-
tural counties in England. was prize win
ner wherever he was exhibited, and his
owners refused G2 600 for him. The broth
err Mr.. Robert Colling, In 1906, bred the
white COW called 1.-THE White Heller That
Travelled" because she was exhibited 10 all
the agricultural counties In England, and
won prizes wherever che went.
As early as 1885 Messrs Cough s. Mil.
Ter imported from England some sholt
horns to the south branch of the Potomac,
ana tradition says some cattle, descended
from these and from some other importa
tions, were bred brought to Clark county,
Kentucky, and Dwere there, and the bulls
bred on the native stock in that section Of
the state. They were the first improved
cattle brought to the state, 80 that Clark
county was the first In the state to engage
10 the Improvement of cattle, which some
Of the citizens have kept up. and now there
are number of very fine and large herds
owned in said county. Among them is
chat of Mr. Abram Reniek's herd of Rose
of Sharon's not surpassed, certainly, and
perhaps not equaled by any herd on either
continent. He has recently received med
al from England as the breeder of the best
sbort-horn COW Of her class in the Kingdom.
He has sold many cows to English pur
chasers
In 1917, Col. Lewis Sanders, of Grass
Hills, Ky, q gentleman of fine education
and very general information. attracted by
the high prices realized for the short-horns
Of Mr.. Chas. Ceilings sale in 1910, import
ed eight head of short horns from the val
| ley Of the river Tees, England-four bulls
and four heifers, all reds They bad all the
characteristic of superior shorthorns, and
came from the locality Of the best Of the
breed, and great care was observed in the
selection of them. But they came without
written ped;grecs, because there were no
herd books at that day in England. The
bulls were bred on the heifers, and num-
ber Of very fine animals were produced, and
in 1880 their progeny were numerous in
Kentucky and Ohio, and very highly priced.
No other importation was made to Ken
lucky directly from England till about 1888,
when Mr.. Walter Dun. of Fayette county,
imported one bull and five cows. In 1886,
Mr.. Dun, IN connection with Mr.. Ssm
Smith, made second importation Of three
bulls and four cows, and in 1888. Mr.. Dun
imported two cows with bull calves These
cattle, or greater part of them, were sold
off at high prices among farmers of that
section.
In 1884, 1885 and 1886 importations of
short-horns were made to Ohio from Eng
land BY company Of gentlemen living near
Chillico the. Some of the bulls and cows
of these importations were purchaEcd and
brought to Kentucky.
In 1889 Rev. r. i. billiard and Nelson
Dudley were sent to England by the Fay
ette county, Kentucky, importing company
and purchased about forty head, which
brought remunerative prices at their sale in
Lexington Numbers of cattle were impor.
ted to kentucky between that period and
1855 directly from England, the late R. A.
Alexander. of Woodburn, Woodford county
having imported more than any one man.
/ After these importations and their des.
cendants were dispersed among breeders,
illiberal and unjust detractions iwere pub.
lished and circulated against Col. Sanders
importa ton of 1917. By whom these
detractions were originated know not, but
doubtless by some who hoped to benefit
themselves by calumniating their neik khbor'.
stock. The cry was that they had come
here without pcdigrees, when at that day
the stress and dams of their own heards
were in the same condition. They were,
however, but too successful in their per.
sistent detractien in placing the It's on
the level OF high grades in Kentucky, by
which means some other breeds without
their intrinsic merits have been puffed
into fictitious and even fabulous prices,
because some interested parties would
declare they were fashionable.
! The common or scrub cattle can be
wonderfully improved by crossing them
with thoroughbred short-horn bull.
Indeed, the first cross of such bull on a
scrub COW is almost marvellous. The
cows as a general rule are good mixers,
and thoroughbred and high grade steers
by good keeping often reach, when be-
tween two and three years old, l,GOO to
1000 pounds, and are generally sold off
to the butchers at thirty months OF age.
Short horns require generous feeding, but
they amply repay liberal masters.