Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1879-08-16
sTABKvILLE MISSISSIPPI AUGUST l6, 1879.

and make gilt-edge butter for mar
ket as well as home consumption.
CLINCHDALE NHoRTHORNs.
In Tennessee there are not many
herds of Shorthorns; in East Ten
nessee the number may be counted
on the fingers of one hand. From
the herds now established the
Shorthorn blood is rapidly diffus-
ing itself throughout the State by
means of young bulls, bought by
enterprising farmsrs, to cross up
on their native COWS. This line
of improvement is common to eY-
cry section whcrv any forward
movement is goinS on. Improve
ment in farming means improved
cattle, better sheep and finer hor-
ses. Such being the case, it is a
matter Of interest, to know some
thing in detail about the chief cen
tres from which this prOgressiS e
influence is flowing in our own
section. Towardssthe close of the
last century, in the county Of
Durham, in England, arose a
movement for the Improvement of
the splendid breed of cattle which
had for generations been bred in
the valley of the river Tees This
movement WAS headed by Charles
and Robert Colling, two brothers,
disciples of the great father Of
English stock-hrecding, Robert
Blackwell. The herds of Charles
and Robert Colling furnish the
fountain whence have flowed the
enormous streams which now en-
rich the cattle Of tie world. The
brothers were both excellent judg-
es of cattle, and they had the best
know material to select from. But
they did something more than Sc
lect. They improved by judi
cious combination of animals pos
sessing the most desirable points,
and when they had secured some =
thing like what they wanted, they
fixed the type by course Of in
and in breeding which would have
shocked almost any breeder of
their day, except their great teach
er Bakewell. The type thus set
has been preserved down TO the
present time under the judicious
care Of long line of eminent
breeders, not few of whom have
been Americans. The Shorthorn
herds of the United States indeed
are quite as numerous in the Unit
ed States as in England, and in
every way as good Prominent
among the successors of the Col
ling brothers, were the Booth
brothers and Thomas Bates, who
bought cattle at the Ceilings sale,
and bred animals whose descend
ants now divide the hOnOrs of the
Shorthorn world. The Bates and
the Booth strains of blood now
dominate and divide the world Of
fashionable breeders. No herd is
considered first class that does not
contain more or less OF Bates and
Booth blood, the more the better.
Just now the Bates blood has the
call by considerable odds in the
market, though ltsreal superiority
is hOtly denied by many good
Judge and successful breeder.
The Shorthorns are par eDcellence
beef cattle, though there are among
them many deep mixers, and it
would be quite practicable thing,
perhaps profitable too, to breed a
milking strain of Shorthorns.
In 1872, Shorthons were intro
duced at Clinchdale by the pur-
chase Of
DUCHESS OF cLINCHDALE,
magnigcent COW. This splendid
COW still holds the premium place.
Her weight is even I 800 lbs. She
was sired by 8th Duke Of Thorn
dale, one of the most famous of
bulls; her dam, Desdemona, traces
her proud lineage back to the best
blood Of the Ceilings herd to J..
Browns Red Bull.
AT the same time was purchased
the bull
DUKE OF CLINcHDALE,
also by the 9Th Duke Of Ihorndale.
Many readers may remember this