Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-09-18
Thorourhbred. TnDred. Etc.

A young Farmer" wishes an explanation
of the terms Thoroughbred, inbred, pure
blood, ETC., as used in stock-breeding.
These terms are often quite carelessly used
among breeders, and II is not strange that
young farmer, in first attempting to study
them, should get somewhat confused Thor
oughbred, strictly speaking, is the name Of
q race of horses, and of course lie frequently
found used in that connection. The English
Thoroughbred is spoken of as referring 10
the well-known race of running horses, 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,
il would be incorrect and a confusion Of terms
10 speak OF thoroughbred Peroheron. 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 30 long that
IL is accepted by good authorities and is found
In frequent use. Among cattle, thorough
bred" is an animal which has been pure bred,
or bred in an unbroken line Of pure blood,
tracing back to imported animals and 10 the
animals from which the breed was frst estab-
lished. Hence we speak Of thoroughbred
Short-horns and thoroughbred Herefords. II
will thus be seen that the term has different
meaning as applied to cattle from what il has
when used in relation to horses.
'Pure-blood" simply means bred pure A
pure-blood Hereford is one whose ancestry
trace In an unbroken line 10 the animals from
which the breed was established.
"Inbred" ia q term used where animals of
any breed are bred to their own immediate
ancestry or offspring. A COW bred to her
own calf, heifer 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 10 deal of confusion.
Sometimes II is used, incorrectly, IN the place
of pure owed, or thoroughbred, as, q full
blood Shorthorn, full blood Jersey. Pure.
bred however, is q better term, and should
be used In preference when thus applied
Some writer's Oh cattle breeding, however,
admit the use of this term as applied to q
class of animals to which the term pure-bred
would not apply. For example, grade Jer-
sey COW coupled with pure-bred bull, and
the same course followed with her offspring
through successive generations, the result
would finally be an animal with the fixed type
of the breed. Yet this animal could not be
denominated pure-bred for the reason that it
traces back to a strain of out blood Hence
it is called ful-blood Jersey in distinction
from a pure-blood or pure-bred Jersey.
"a Herd book animal is one whose breed
ing is registered, or recorded, in the herd
book Of the breed. The registration Of ami
mails is subject to rules established by the as
sociatons of breeders having the matter in
charge. These rules vary somewhat with
different breeds, and are subject to changes
from time to time, as the associations see fit
to make them. There is in the United States
a herd book for each of the different breeds
Of cattle. These contain record of the puri-
ty of blood of the animals entered therein,
and only this. They are not intended to be
in any sense an evidence of merit. An ami
NAL is said to be eligible to registry" when
its breeding has all been with pure-bred ami
mails of the breed, but the record of tine
breeding has not yet been registered in the
herd-book Maine Farmer.