Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-06-18


of the Cox cows which were bred to the
two bulls of Mr.. Wayne and many good
cattle sprung fsom them known in that
locality as the Bullock stock. They
were large, robust animals and while
not Of remarkably fine quality compared
with later importations, they were true
short horns.
We now come to the importation Of
1917, which every one who has or in
tends to breed shorthorns had better
pay particular attention to, and l will
give rather a full account Of them. Col.
Lewis Sanders, of Grass Hills, Kentucky
made this importation. He was proud
of fine stock and kept posted on the
English sales of cattle and became con.
WINGED that the pure shorthorned breed
ofcattle must possess value far beyond
the knowledge Of the American people
from the immense prices they brought
at both public and private sales and
particularly at the sale of Charles Col
ling in 1910, when the bull Comet sold
for IS, $50. lie sent $500 to Buch'
anan. Smith s. Co., Of Liverpool, with
directions to select suitable agent and
send him into the best cattle districts to
buy three pairs of cattle for him aud ship
them to him. These gentlemen selec'
ted Mr.. Etches. who was both butcher
and breeder Of fine cattle and COM
petent judge Of them. Mr.. Etches
went as directed to Yorkshire to pur-
cLase pair of the Holderness breed
then in high repute as mixers; to the
river Tees, in Durham county, to pur-
chase a pair of shorthorned Durhams,
and then into Westmoreland county to
buy a pair Of lonaAorned Durhams.
His orders were to buy the best
specimens of their race without any
restrictions as to price. But Mr.. Etches
found cattle much lower at the time
than Col. Sanders expected and bought
two pairs Of each breed, and sent Col.
Sanders twelve instead of six cattle
Capt. VIM. Smith and DR.. Leagarden
each bought :hrd interest in the cat
tie before they arrived in Kentucky.
In the division OF the shorthOrns the
two bulls, Gen. Martin and Tecumseh,
and Mrs. Mott ard Teeswater COW fell
to Col. Sanders. Capt. Smith got the
longhornod ball, Brgh' and DR.. Leagar-
den the longhorned bull, Rising Sun.
The longhorned COWS went TO the
gentlemen who got the longhorned
bulls. These longhorned Durham bulls
were bred to other COWS besides those
with which they were imported, but
they did not prove popular with Ken
lucky breeders and after some years
they gradually run out. They were too
coarse and took long to come to ma
turity and did not fatten well until fully
grown. Many years ago 70 trace Of
them could be found in pure blood in
the vicinity Of their importation. The
longhorned bulls were bred TO some eX-
tent on the shorthorned COWS, the
descendants of this shorthorned i'm
portations, and the shorthorned bulls
to the longhorned cows. The long
horned bull, Rising Sun, got into the
English Herd Book as a shOrthorn and
the pedigrees Of the crosses between
the longhorns and shOrthorn got into
the English II erd Book and also into
the American Herd Book. This has
cast doubt upon the purity of the
blood OF the descendants Of this impor-
tation and besides this none of these cat
tie came across the sea with any pedi
gree with them.
While many will admit that many Of
The descendants Of this importation are
very fine cattle, and there have been
many excellent animals among them,
still The doubt about the purity Of their
blood does exist, and no breeder Of
and high standing for pure |
)red and fashionable shorthOrns ;will |
ouch anything that has the blood Of this
Of 1917 in it, and the prices
hese cattle bring are generally merely
Iominal IN comparison with those Of
he pure bred and fashionable families
f shorthorns. Now and then one Of
hese cattle owing to ITS extraordinary
xcellence will bring a high price, but
is only occasionally that you find one
fthis kind.
There were various importations of
mall numbers Of cattle into different
tates on to 1924. In that year Col.
ohm Hare Powell, of Philadelphia
his imporiations. He was
gentleman ofwealth and public spirit,
nd continued TO import fine shorthOrns
II some years. His purchases were
rincipally made olJonas Whitaker, of
tley, in Yorkshire. He bred them
it'll great attention and care and sold
any Of their descendants in Pennsyl. |
mia and New jersey and some to |
entuckey and Ohio and Virginia. His t
IN seems TO have been to raise large a
ilkers for dairy purposes. His Belina
mily were famous both for butter and /
ilk. One Of the imported COWS. :
elina, by Barmpton, made 2Ol pounds .
butter per week.
BY this time after thirty years ex- d
rience the Kentuckians were fully a
tlslied Of the value Of the pure short ?
rms and began to feel it necessary to
t some fresh blood to cross on their u
tile. In 1888, Mr.. Walter Dun. Of I
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