The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-17
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
The snort-horn OuaIooL..

1t must be admitted that just now the
short-horn business resembles Il patient
whose physic has disagreed with him, or
a bean stalk after the first frost has fallen.
Men are too apt to take a discouraging
view of the prospects. Their impressions
come like the fragments of a routed army
TO the point of rendezvous. The first
that arrive are sure TO be call that are
left Of the whole division" BY and by
the saved appear in such numbers as to
make you wonder at the smallness of the
loss. Let there be steadiness all around
No undue excitement. No panic. There
have been usurpers on the throne. Men
came to be called Short-horn Kings"
when they were not entitled to the name
OF the Office. Their cattle came to be
called the royal family, when the blood
was no bluer than that of the others
that we're not pushed to the front. This,
applied to men, begets unhealthfulness
and affection. Out of affection grows
publication. The physic must pain ere
it gives relief. After frosted leaves we
look for well-filled pods of ripened seed.
There is no need of other than a
cheerful outlook for the short-horn bust
ness. The average three year old Texan
steer is worth twelve to twenty dollars /;
the average native but little more while
the shert-horn of the same age brings
seventy to eighty dollars. The demand
for meat is greater than ever before.
Can it be, then, that men are engaged in
furnishing stock to bring up the standard
of value in our native cattle, of which
there is such apparent need, will fail
We think not. The failures we now have
to regret is the result of speculation,
pursuit of false ideas, and the contrac-
ton of the currency.
The effect will be to level and lower the
prices, which were inflated beyond rea-
son. We shall have no more forty
thOusand-dollar COWS, but good ones will
sell for their real value. There will be
no more top -loftical handsprings into
fortune, and we hope no more disastrous
tumbling. Lower prices will stimulate
the use of shOrt-horn cattle. Many are
the farmers who will buy a hundred.
dollar COW, but could not compass one at
five hundred.
Again, the good resulting from the
present break up" will be leveling oil
good families of short-horns. Men will
select breeding animals from the familie:
that bring the heaviest carcasses to the
hooks, whether these be found in the
herds of one of the cattle kings" SO
NhiAChJ VI III Jlldb vi eOul0 DIo6u6f.
There will be a new deal, in which all
pure bred cattle will have a show. We
do not mean by this that bad or deficient
pedigrees will be recognized. The pedi
gree must be both true and good. The
animal must be good and of undisputed
lineage. There are very many families
that possess these requirements. Some
are better than others in individual
worth; these will of course bring a com
paratively higher price, but will not
hereafter rise to the unapprOachable
fancy" To illustrate, take late sale
where an animal that once sold for 81, 0OC
brought 500 under the hammer The
former was fancy; the latter real. Re
action always Overdoes what it is meant
TO correct. This is the case now. Fine
cattle of approved breeds are worth more
than they are bringing at present. They
will improve, but only up to the poin
of real wOrth.-FdraterS' Home Journal.