The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-10-02
USEFUL INFORMATION.

From advance sheets of the American Agricul-
tarist for October we take the following:
Game In and Out of Season.-The game laws of
several States contain penalties not only against
killing game out of season but also against SELL
ing, disposing of, or having it in possession during
the close time. The question has arisen whether
they apply when the game was killed during the
open season of the State where the penalty is
sought to be enforced, or has been brought from
another State where it is lawful to have it in pos
session. The decisions on this point conflict
-E-~ssThe- -..-4~s. 50 th.t 80
in his or her possession between certain dates
certain specified game, killed, shall be liable to
penalty" The time when or the place where the
game was killed, or when brought within the
State, or where from, is not made material by the
statute, and we have no power to make it so.
State laws forbidding the transportation of game
during close seasons do not infringe the right of
Congress to regulate interstate commerce. But
State law forbidding transportation into out of
State of game killed or captured during the open
season of the State making the law is unconstitu-
tional. If statute prohibits "klling or taking"
BIRDS etc., taking means Catching" not "taking
away" And if it prohibits having sin possession
any bird of game" it includes live as we'll as dead
birds. If the law prohibits hunting or trapping
game on Sunday, man who sets snare on
week day and leaves it open on the following
Sunday is liable, if game be caught therein on
that day, even though he did not then watch over
his snare.
Full-Blood and Thoroughbred.--In popular
language the terms synonymous. When used
in reference to horses, there is well-defned diff
ference between them, which it would argue ig-
norance to neglect Some writers seek to estab-
lish difference also, when they are used in rela-
ton to sheep, and in this way A full. blood is
one in whose veins there is no admixture or stain
of any other blood but the Spanish, while thor
oughbred, is all that and something more. A
sheep may be full blood (pure- blood would be a
better term and yet be so deficient in form or
fleece, as to be unfit for breeder But thor
oughbred is the outcome of long line of ances-
tors, which, beginning with pure blood, have been
so consummately nodded by man to special pur-
pose that this last and finished product is, SO to
speak, incapable of bcgettng or bearing proge-
ny different from itself. While these ought to be-
and with accurate men are, the definitions of the
two terms, in popular usage they are not, and are
constantly misappled.
AAions, all tigers, all animals in stete of ma
ture are bloods, pure boods, average types of
their respective races; but not all of them are
thoroughbreds; this is, not all of them even
in all their qualities, and sound in their consti-
tutions to be able to produce progeny up to
the level of the race-standard. They are weeded
out by natural selection they are Informed,
weak, or lacking in cunning, and they perish in
the struggle of life, leaving the best individuals
behind to perpetuate the race. Under state of
domestication in which man seeks to preserve all
the individuals, good and poor, he must himself
conduct this selection of his breeders.
? Selecting fredericksburg heifers sounds well
in theory, but breeding cattle is separate art
from dairying, and unless followed with great
judgment is a losing business, as not every heifer
raised becomes frstc class mich COW. The best
plan is to buy heifers heavy with their first calves
called "springers :" and in this there is much
more room for judgment and skill in making thee
selections than most men willing to admit.
The mistake usually made is in being misled by
fancy for certain shapes, colors and fashionable
points, to the neglect of others relating immedi-
ately to the usefulness of the matured COW.
The first point to consider is, that the heifer is
strong, with deep flank, indicating constitution
oil vigor then that her teats are large and set
wide apart Viewed from behind the twist should
be open and wide, with her rudimentary udder
well displayed and teats far apart. As second
airy and fancy points, slim neck, and long head
with small horns are good features. Above all
things, avoid those heifers that show very small
rudimentary teats, or those with large ones set
close together. Such heifer never can make a
frst-class COW. There are enough risks to run
before securing good one, without starting out
with those that never can improve. Even the
best of pedigrees cannot make good COW out OF
q heifer with deformed udder Those who have
studied Guenon's method, while they do not rely
upon it to the exclusion of other points, find it
great aid and feel that they cannot ignore the es-
cutcheon