Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-09-28
AariemltMral department.
THOROUGHBRED, INBRED,
ETC.

A ssYoung Farmer wishes an ex-
PLANTATION of the terms thoroughbred,
inbred, pureblood, etc., as used in
stock breeding.
These terms are often quite care
lessly used among breeders, and it
is not strange that young farmer,
in first attempting to study them,
should get somewhat confused.
Thoroughbred, strictly speaking, is
the name of race of horses, and of
course is frequently found used in
that connection. The English Thor
oughbred is spoken of as referring to
the well known race of running hors-
es, the same as Percheron is used in
speaking of the breed of French
horses known by that name. In the
sense here used,as applied to horses,
it would be incorrect and confusion
of terms to speak of a thoroughbred
Percheron. But the term has been
applied to cattle in the sense.of pure
bred-incorrectly, of course, at first !;
yet it has now been in use SO long
that it is accepted by good authori-
ties and is found in frequent use.
Among cattle, thoroughbred is an
animal which has been bred, or
bred in an unbroken line of pure
blood, tracing back to imported AMI
mails and to the animals from which
the breed was first established.
Hence we speak of thoroughbred
Shorthorns, and thoroughbred Here
fords. 1t will thus be seen that the
term has Ia different meaning when
applied to cattle from what it has
when used in relation to horses.
Pure blood simply means bred
pure. A pure-blood Hereford is one
whose ancestry trace is an unbroken
line to the animals from which the
breed was established.
Inbred is a term used where ami
mails of any breed are bred to their
own immediate ancestry or offspring
A COW bred to her own calf, heifeI
bred to her own brother or to half
brother, would be examples of in
breeding, and the offspring would be
called an inbred animal.
The term full-blood is sometimes
used, and in way that leads to q
deal of confusion. Sometimes it is
used, incorrectly, in the place OF
pure bred, or thoroughbred, as 6
full-blood Shorthorn, full-blOoC
Jersey. Pure bred, however, is {
better term, and should be used il
preference when thus applied. Some
writer's on cattle-b breeding, however
admit the use of this term as applied
to a class of animals to which til,
term pure-bred would not apply. Fo
example, a grade Jersey COW coupled
with a bred bull, and the SAM
course followed with her offsprin!
through successive generations, tn
result would finally be an ANNA
with fixed type of the breed. Ye
this animal could not be denominate,
pure-bred, for the reason that
| traces back to a strain of out blood
Hence it is called full-blood Jerse
in distinction from a pure-blood G
pure bred Jersey.
A Herd book animal is one who's
breeding is registered, OF recorded
in the herdbook of the breed. Th
registration of animals is subject t
rules established by the association
of breeders having the matter
charge. These rules vary somewhs
with different breeds, and are sui
ject to changes from time TO time, 6
the associations see fit to make then
There is in the United States hero
book for each of the different breed
of cattle. These contain recol
of the purity of blood of the ANNA
entered therein, and only this. The
are not intended to be in any sens
an evidence of merit. An animal
said to be ''eligible to registry
when its breeding has all been Wi
pure bred animals of the breed, b.
), the record of the breeding has NJ
, yet been registered in the herd-boo
. Maine Farmer.