Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-23
THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FARM.

Fine Jersey and shorthorn Cattle. !
We took run down to the AgricultI.a al
College Farm yesterday in company with
Prof j. NJ McBryde, the very efficient pro-
fessor of agriculture of the University OF
Tennessee. We were so much pleased with
what we saw there that we conclude our
readers, especially our farmer readers, will
be interested in knowing something about
it.
In the first place we saw two beautiful,
thoroughbred Jersey calves. "Pitapat" is
beautiful sixteen months old heater, sired
by imported bull Tormentor. The secre-
tary of the Channel Island Club wrote Mr..
Campbell Brown, of Middle Tennessee, his
owner, that he considered him one OF the
finest bulls ever exported and that one OF
his heifers had just been sold (last spring.
for S1O5O. Three of his calves are in milk
in this country and all gave extraordinary
butter records. Ximena, Patapat's dam, at
three wears old, had butter record of 121
pounds per week The price of the animal
was $3.50, but Mr.. Brown generously al
lowed the farm discount of $50,
for which the friends of the Uni
versity certainly feel grateful. He
wrote lately that $3.50 would not buy Re
heifer if still in his possession, so good are
| the recent records of some of Tormentor's
get. He also presented the farm fine, very
high-bred Jersey bull calf, which combines
the blood of of his two best cows, Duchess
| of Bloomfield and Roxana ID. The first of
these had record of Is pounds of butter
per week, the second one of IL pounds In
| the pedigree of this calf, Ph@bus are three
animals that appear twice in the famous
pounds and ounces of butter per week has
never been excelled.
Jerseys are now selling at prices nearly
rivalhng that of the most famous Shorthorn
strains A bull sold lately for 81 800, and
several COWS from 81 800 10 50, 800. The
| farm has been most fortunate in securing
such animals.
We saw also three Shorthorns on the
farm, equally as fine and as worthy of men
ton. They were bred by Mark. S. Cock
rell of Nashville, who also allowed TO the
farm the liberal discount of $50. First III
the list is the handsome three-year old cow,
18th Lady of Richland, sired by bull OF
the Rose of Shawnstrain, bred by Absolom
Rennick, the noted Kentucky Shorthofn
breeder. On the dam side, this animal
which, by-the-by, is a perfect model Of
beauty and symmetry goes back to the
celebrated imported COW, Lady Little.
| Second, comes beautiful young heieer
calf, now little more than ten months old,
10Th Lady of Richland. She was sired by
Pappy's Airdie, bred by Remick of Ken
lucky, and her dam was sired by the Sth
Duke Of ThornGale, one of the famous
animals whose almost fabulous prices at the
New York bulls sales in 1878, created such
a sensation throughout the agricultural
world
And lastly the young bull calf 18th Duke
OF Richland, is especially worthy of notice
tbs is most superb animal, of tn 'ee
fourths Duchess blood, for his sire was the
| $40, 900 bull, 9Th Duke o. HI hurst and his
dam was by the 6th Duke ofThomdae. This
calf is Of magcifcent promises and comes O
the very finest sGra;ns of Shorthocn blood
Tina liberaliCy OF these well-k1 IOWA breeder:
Is most pra seworthy and commendable ant
entities them to the thanks of all interested
in our State University. 1t was pred 'ctet
that the price of the New York bulls sale
Zone sold for $40, 900, another for $50, 900
&c, could never be realized again and ye
three Duchess COWS sold recently at For
Huron Mich, for upward of $1,000 each
A pair of beautiful Poland-Ch pi5
bred by James, of Kentucky, are animals o
great promise. We noticed also fin
young Berkshire SOW, bred by Mr.. Shields
of Granger County, and pair Of Jersey
Reds, bred by Clark Petit, of Salem, N. J
We saw many other things on the farm
; that we would be glad to mention, but W
have not the space id this issue. The fam
is looking well and shows every evidence c
skillful cultivation. 1t will do any farme
good to visit it.