The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-01-23
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
w. s. SHIELDS. EDITOR.
Short Horn Cattle.

ably adapted TO It's productlon In
vast quantities. Of almost endless
variety. and superior quality. and
this is the great essential to making
the breeding and grazing OF meat
cattle the leading element Of the
agriculture Of any country.
Believing. as we do. that our lands
are peculiarly adapted to its growth,
and grass being the most natural
and therefore the best food for cat
tie, we also fully believe that this
Is a region well suited to the breed
ing and full development OF the
most approved breeds Of cattle for
both the SHAMELESS and the dairy.
The two great purposes for which
cattle were, by nature. intended are
the production Of beef and milk. and
it is for one. or both of these objects
we should breed a better race of
cattle than the native or scrub ami
mails that now infest the country.
We want breed that in consuming
the same quantity of food at an
earlier age will yield a greater
amount of superior beef and milk,
for the object to be attained in keep
ing live stock on the farm is to morr
profitably and economically convert
the crops grown into money without
fmpoverishing the soil ; therefore. in
making selections OF animals to do
this, we do not want those that con-
sumo the smallest quantity of food,
but those that from a given amount
of grass and grain will produce the
largest number of pounds of beef, or
the greatest quantity of superior
milk and butter, coming early to
maturity and when put upon the
market commanding most remunera-
tive prices.
With this object in view, having
determined to improve our cattle.
which can best be don3 be the use Of
thoroughbred bulls on the best COM
mon cows, and by a system Of gen
erous feeding and careful manage
ment, we should study the character
istics peculiar to the different breeds
and select such as we think will best
meet our wants. and best suited to
our manner of farming and caring
for stock.
The cattle Of the country. their
grazing and feeding, their influence
upon land and commerce may well
be considered of the most vital in
torest.
The revolution in the farming of
this country, which is inevitably to
take place, will bring before the East
Tennessee farmer this interest as
the surest means by which be is to
restore to his lands their original |
fertility and insure his prosperity
and success in the pursuit he is SO
worthily engaged, and it is for this
reason we cannot give too much at
tentton to the study OF the different
breeds. their qualities, habits aud
adaptability to our section.
In view of this important inter
est now so greatly felt, We propose
at present the consideration of what
is to-day the most widely known
most popular and most useful breed
of cattle.
Short herns may, with justice, be
placed at the head of all breeds of
cattle for beef, and when that quail
ty is sought to be developed, are
animals of rare excellence for dairy
purposes.
The feeder and the grazier prefer
this breed to any other. and the
butchers are paying for them more
money. Their large size gives them
an important advantage over all
other breeds in being shipped to
distant markets, and for supplying
the foreign demand for American
beef, which is so rapidly increasing
and extending in Europe, no other
breed can compete with them.
To enter into the history OF this
noble race of cattle would only be
what has been written and
published in the agricultural press
Of the country for nearly century.
It is the oldest, most widely dis
and universally popular
breed that ever existed.
Their astonishing precocity, their
aptitude to fatten, the
perfection of their forms and the
ineness of their long structure give
hem an advantage over all others,
when the object Of breeding is for
he shambles.
No animal of any breed can 80
apidly transform the stock OF any
ection around him as the thorough !
red short horn bull, and it has been
aid by very high authority that the
hort horns improve every breed
hey cross with.
The good points of 3 pure-bred
hort horn bull may be described as
Ollows:
He should have a short but fine